title: Interlayer magnetoresistance due to chiral soliton lattice formation in hexagonal chiral magnet CrNb3S6.
abstract: We investigate the interlayer magnetoresistance (MR) along the chiral crystallographic axis in the hexagonal chiral magnet CrNb3S6. In a region below the incommensurate-commensurate phase transition between the chiral soliton lattice and the forced ferromagnetic state, a negative MR is obtained in a wide range of temperature, while a small positive MR is found very close to the Curie temperature. Normalized data of the negative MR almost falls into a single curve and is well fitted by a theoretical equation of the soliton density, meaning that the origin of the MR is ascribed to the magnetic scattering of conduction electrons by a nonlinear, periodic, and countable array of magnetic soliton kinks.
authors.affiliation: N2RC, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-2 Gakuencho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8570, Japan and JST, PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi, Saitama 333-0012, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Togawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kousaka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nishihara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Akimitsu
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Ovchinnikov
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kishine