Magnetic field and pressure dependence of small angle neutron scattering in MnSi.
We report small angle neutron scattering of spontaneous and magnetic field aligned components of the helical spin polarization in MnSi for temperatures T down to 0.35 K, at pressures p up to 21 kbar, and magnetic field B up to 0.7 T. The parameter range of our study spans the first order transition between helical order and partial magnetic order at p{c}=14.6 kbar, which coincides with the onset of an extended regime of non-Fermi liquid resistivity. Our study suggests that MnSi above p{c} is not dominated by the remnants of the first order transition at p{c}, but that an unidentified mechanism favors stabilization of a new ground state other than helical order.
Pfleiderer
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Physikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.
Reznik
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Pintschovius
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Haug
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