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Proximity-driven enhanced magnetic order at ferromagnetic-insulator-magnetic-topological-insulator interface
Magnetic exchange driven proximity effect at a magnetic-insulator–topological-insulator (MI-TI) interface provides a rich playground for novel phenomena as well as a way to realize low energy dissipation quantum devices. In this study, we report a dramatic enhancement of proximity exchange coupling in the MI/magnetic-TI EuS/Sb 2–x V x Te 3 hybrid heterostructure, where V doping is used to drive the TI (Sb 2 Te 3 ) magnetic. We observe an artificial antiferromagneticlike structure near the MI-TI interface, which may account for the enhanced proximity coupling. The interplay between the proximity effect and doping in a hybrid heterostructure provides insights into the engineering of magnetic ordering.
Tuning Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy by Oxygen Octahedral Rotations in ( La 1 – x Sr x MnO 3 ) / ( SrIrO 3 ) Superlattices
Here, perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) plays a critical role in the development of spintronics, thereby demanding new strategies to control PMA. Here we demonstrate a conceptually new type of interface induced PMA that is controlled by oxygen octahedral rotation. In superlattices comprised of La 1–x Sr x MnO 3 and SrIrO 3 , we find that all superlattices (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) exhibit ferromagnetism despite the fact that La 1–x Sr x MnO 3 is antiferromagnetic for x > 0.5. PMA as high as 4 × 10 6 erg/cm 3 is observed by increasing x and attributed to a decrease of oxygen octahedral rotation at interfaces. We also demonstrate that oxygen octahedral deformation cannot explain the trend in PMA. These results reveal a new degree of freedom to control PMA, enabling discovery of emergent magnetic textures and topological phenomena.
Magnetic Excitations across the Metal-Insulator Transition in the Pyrochlore Iridate Eu 2 Ir 2 O 7 [Evolution of Magnetic Excitations across the Metal-Insulator Transition in the Pyrochlore Iridate Eu 2 Ir 2 O 7 ]
Here, we report a resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of the magnetic excitation spectrum in a highly insulating Eu 2 Ir 2 O 7 single crystal that exhibits a metal-insulator transition at T MI = 111(7) K. A propagating magnon mode with a 20 meV bandwidth and a 28 meV magnon gap is found in the excitation spectrum at 7 K, which is expected in the all-in-all-out magnetically ordered state. This magnetic excitation exhibits substantial softening as the temperature is raised towards T MI and turns into a highly damped excitation in the paramagnetic phase. Remarkably, the softening occurs throughout the whole Brillouin zone including the zone boundary. This observation is inconsistent with the magnon renormalization expected in a local moment system and indicates that the strength of the electron correlation in Eu 2 Ir 2 O 7 is only moderate, so that electron itinerancy should be taken into account in describing its magnetism.
Real-space investigation of short-range magnetic correlations in fluoride pyrochlores NaCaCo 2 F 7 and NaSrCo 2 F 7 with magnetic pair distribution function analysis
Here, we present time-of-flight neutron total scattering and polarized neutron scattering measurements of the magnetically frustrated compounds NaCaCo 2 F 7 and NaSrCo 2 F 7 , which belong to a class of recently discovered pyrochlore compounds based on transition metals and fluorine. The magnetic pair distribution function (mPDF) technique is used to analyze and model the total scattering data in real space. We find that a previously-proposed model of short-range XY-like correlations with a length scale of 10-15 Å, combined with nearest-neighbor collinear antiferromagnetic correlations, accurately describes the mPDF data at low temperature, confirming the magnetic ground state in these materials. This model is further verified by the polarized neutron scattering data. From an analysis of the temperature dependence of the mPDF and polarized neutron scattering data, we find that short-range correlations persist on the nearest-neighbor length scale up to 200 K, approximately two orders of magnitude higher than the spin freezing temperatures of these compounds. These results highlight the opportunity presented by these new pyrochlore compounds to study the effects of geometric frustration at relatively high temperatures, while also advancing the mPDF technique and providing a novel opportunity to investigate a genuinely short-range-ordered magnetic ground state directly in real space.
Canted–Cosine–Theta Magnet (CCT)—A Concept for High Field Accelerator Magnets
Canted-Cosine-Theta (CCT) magnet is an accelerator magnet that superposes fields of nested and tilted solenoids that are oppositely canted. The current distribution of any canted layer generates a pure harmonic field as well as a solenoid field that can be cancelled with a similar but oppositely canted layer. The concept places windings within mandrel's ribs and spars that simultaneously intercept and guide Lorentz forces of each turn to prevent stress accumulation. With respect to other designs, the need for pre-stress in this concept is reduced by an order of magnitude making it highly compatible with the use of strain sensitive superconductors such as Nb 3 Sn or HTS. Intercepting large Lorentz forces is of particular interest in magnets with large bores and high field accelerator magnets like the one foreseen in the future high energy upgrade of the LHC. This paper describes the CCT concept and reports on the construction of CCT1 a "proof of principle" dipole.
Designs and Prospects of Bi-2212 Canted-Cosine-Theta Magnets to Increase the Magnetic Field of Accelerator Dipoles Beyond 15 T
The critical current density of Bi-2212 round wires has seen significant improvement over the past two years. We present the magnetic design and stress analysis of two Bi-2212 dipoles based on Canted-Cosine-Theta (CCT) technology using the state-of-the-art wires. The first design, based on a 19-strand Rutherford cable of θ0.8mm strands, is a two-layer dipole with a bore diameter of 40 mm and an outer diameter of 98.4 mm; it generates 5.4 T when operating in stand-alone configuration and 18.9 T in 15 T background field. The second design, based on a 13-strand Rutherford cable of θ0.8mm strands, is also a two-layer dipole with a bore diameter of 40 mm and an outer diameter of 81 mm; it generates 4.0 T when operating in stand-alone configuration and 17.8 T in 15 T background field. Normal stresses on the conductor in these magnets do not exceed 35 MPa when working under background field.Moreover, we propose a novel approach for increasing the efficiency of CCT magnets using keystoned Rutherford cable while removing the midplane ribs. with this method, it is possible to increase the efficiency of small radius CCT coils by 20%. We conclude that Bi-2212 can be used to increase the limit of accelerator magnet dipole fields beyond 15 T while managing stresses in the coils to acceptable levels.
Magnetic Measurements of Fermilab Rapid-Cycling Booster Gradient Magnets
Fermilab is upgrading its Booster synchrotron to increase ramp rate and intensity. This is part of the Proton Improvement Plan (PIP-II) that will allow the Main Injector to achieve proton beam power of 1.2 MW within the next few years. This upgrade includes running the 55-year-old Booster magnets at 20 Hz instead of the usual 15 Hz, and construction of some shorter and wider aperture versions of these combined-function gradient magnets. Magnetic measurements were performed to characterize the present 15 Hz AC performance, and then again with 20 Hz ramp cycle to ensure performance and compatibility in this new operating regime. A 3 m-long curved flat-coil was developed for these measurements using Printed Circuit Board (PCB) technology. The probe also has a separate 0.5 m-long body-field probe, allowing integral, body, and end fields to be measured across 100 mm of the magnet aperture. The sampling rate for these measurements during the AC cycle was 200 kHz, and field resolution was better than 0.01%. Details of the probe, measurements, and results are presented.
A pyroxene-based quantum magnet with multiple magnetization plateaus
Pyroxenes (AMX 2 O 6 ) consisting of infinite one-dimensional edge-sharing MO 6 chains and bridging XO 4 tetrahedra are fertile ground for finding quantum materials. Thus, here, we have studied calcium cobalt germanate (CaCoGe 2 O 6 ) and calcium cobalt silicate (CaCoSi 2 O 6 ) crystals in depth. Heat capacity data show that the spins in both compounds are dominantly Ising-like, even after being manipulated by high magnetic fields. On cooling below the Néel temperatures, a sharp field–induced transition in magnetization is observed for CaCoGe 2 O 6 , while multiple magnetization plateaus beneath the full saturation moment are spotted for CaCoSi 2 O 6 . Our analysis shows that these contrasting behaviors potentially arise from the different electron configurations of germanium and silicon, in which the 3d orbitals are filled in the former but empty in the latter, enabling electron hopping. Thus, silicate tetrahedra can aid the interchain superexchange pathway between cobalt(II) ion centers, while germanate ones tend to block it during magnetization.
Three-Dimensional Charge Density Wave Order in YBa2Cu3O6.67 at High Magnetic Fields
Charge density wave (CDW) correlations have been shown to universally exist in cuprate superconductors. However, their nature at high fields inferred from nuclear magnetic resonance is distinct from that measured by x-ray scattering at zero and low fields. Here we combine a pulsed magnet with an x-ray free electron laser to characterize the CDW in YBa2Cu3O6.67 via x-ray scattering in fields up to 28 Tesla. While the zero-field CDW order, which develops below T ~ 150 K, is essentially two-dimensional, at lower temperature and beyond 15 Tesla, another three-dimensionally ordered CDW emerges. The field-induced CDW onsets around the zero-field superconducting transition temperature, yet the incommensurate inplane ordering vector is field-independent. This implies that the two forms of CDW and hightemperature superconductivity are intimately linked.
Quasi-static and dynamic magnetic tension forces in arched, line-tied magnetic flux ropes
Solar eruptions are often driven by magnetohydrodynamic instabilities such as the torus and kink instabilities that act on line-tied magnetic flux ropes. Recent laboratory experiments designed to study these eruptive instabilities have demonstrated the key role of both dynamic (Myers et al 2015 Nature 528, 526) and quasi-static (Myers et al 2016 Phys. Plasmas, in press) magnetic tension forces in contributing to the equilibrium and stability of line-tied magnetic flux ropes. In this paper, we synthesize these laboratory results and explore the relationship between the dynamic and quasi-static tension forces. While the quasi-static tension force is found to contribute to the flux rope equilibrium in a number of regimes, the dynamic tension force is substantial mostly in the so-called failed torus regime where magnetic self-organization events prevent the flux rope from erupting.
Enhanced Energy Density in Permanent Magnets using Controlled High Magnetic Field during Processing
This ORNL Manufacturing Demonstraction Facility (MDF) technical collaboration focused on the use of high magnetic field processing (>2Tesla) using energy efficient large bore superconducting magnet technology and high frequency electromagnetics to improve magnet performance and reduce the energy budget associated with Alnico thermal processing. Alnico, alloys containing Al, Ni, Co and Fe, represent a class of functional nanostructured alloys, and show the greatest potential for supplementing or replacing commercial Nd-based rare-earth alloy magnets.
Microscopic subsurface characterization of layered magnetic materials using magnetic resonance force microscopy
This project resulted in the following accomplishments: 1) The invention of scanned probe ferromagnetic resonance microscopy. Upon implementation and refinement this approach was used to measure static and dynamic magnetic resonance properties of ferromagnets with an unprecedented combination of spectral and spatial resolution. 2) Demonstration and study of spin pumping in a pristine ferromagnet across a boundary defined entirely by a magnetic field gradient, and so free of materials discontinuities. 3) First demonstrated highly efficient dynamic spin injection from Y 3 Fe 5 O 12 (YIG) into NiO, an antiferromagnetic (AF) insulator and robust spin propagation in AF NiO over distances up to 100-nm thickness; both spin injection and spin transport are mediated by the AF spin correlations. 4) Demonstration of exceptionally high efficiency conversion of spin current to charge current achieved in spin pumping from the dynamic magnetization of a ferromagnetic insulator into a variety of adjacent metal films. 5) Seminal study of the nature of spin-orbit coupling in d-electron metals that revealed the dominant sensitivity of the d-orbital moment to the d-electron count and revealing the important roles of both d-electron configuration and atomic number in the physics of the spin Hall effect. 6) Demonstration of observation of FMR by means of optically-detected NV diamond relaxometry that provided a highly sensitive, spatially resolved FMR detection method and revealed spin pumping across 100-nm length scales by means of dipolar coupling. 7) Using magnetic field localization, developed for FMR imaging, demonstrated a novel approach to discretizing spin wave modes to improve the characteristics of auto-oscillators driven by pure spin currents produced by the spin Hall effect. 8) We demonstrated large spin pumping signals from propagating high wavevector spinwaves in thin film YIG find that the spin pumping efficiency was insensitive to wavevector thus emphasizing the promise of thin YIG films for spinwave-based spintronics by allowing for predictable down-scaling of device dimensions and enabling a broad range of operational frequencies.
The application of macroscopic flakes for Fe-6.5%Si bulk magnetics with superior magnetic properties
Inductors are used in power electronics to convert current to different frequency and voltage. They are used extensively from where power is generated all the way to electric vehicles and portable electronic devices. The soft magnetic materials used in the inductors is critical for the performance of the inductors. Currently, a majority of the inductor uses powder core. The use of powder is not ideal as the 3D granule powders generate large demagnetization field working against the applied field, resulting in reduced permeability and efficiency. In this paper, 2D flakes were used to replace the 3D granules as the feedstock for fabricating inductor core. The crystalline Fe-Si based crystalline soft magnetic material in the form of flakes approximately 0.1mm thick, 1mm long and 2mm wide were prepared via melt spinning. The flakes were then coated with insulating materials before compacted into a toroid. The effect of coating thickness and concentration on magnetic properties of the toroidal sample are studied. It was also found that the magnetic cores made by flakes surpass the cores made by same size powder with larger permeability and lower iron losses.
Magnetic properties of Lu and Y doped Ce-Fe-B magnets
The growing demand for Nd2Fe14B magnets is exacerbating the current critical materials shortage. To reduce the amount of critical material in Nd2Fe14B magnets, chemical substitutions have been used and shown to improve the magnetic behavior, such as the Curie Temperature TC, anisotropy field Ha, and saturation magnetization MS.
The Dependence of Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection on Plasma Beta and Magnetic Shear: Theory and Observations
We investigate the onset conditions for electron-only magnetic reconnection through an analysis of 86 reconnection events observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission in magnetosheath and magnetospheric current sheets. Our study presents the first observational evidence that the occurrence of electron-only reconnection depends on both the magnetic-field shear angle (θ) across the current sheet and the cross-sheet electron beta jump, quantified either by the inflow electron beta difference (Δβ e ) or by a modified electron beta jump (Δβ$^*_e$) defined by the cross-sheet electron pressure difference normalized by the average of the inflow magnetic pressure in the two inflow regions. We extend the diamagnetic-drift suppression mechanism from standard reconnection to electron-only reconnection by deriving relations applicable to electron-scale current sheets. Using scaling estimates, the electron-only reconnection suppression relation is derived as Δβ$^*_e$ ≳ 2(L/d e ) tan (θ/2), while a natural extension of the ion-coupled reconnection suppression criterion is Δβ e ≳ 2(L/d e ) tan (θ/2). At low Δβ e and Δβ$^*_e$ values, reconnection is detected across a large range of magnetic shear (from low to high), whereas high Δβ e and Δβ$^*_e$ conditions restrict reconnection to large shear configurations: shear angles as small as θ ≈ 5° occur when Δβ e (or Δβ$^*_e$) ≲0.1. However, only events exceeding θ ≳ 70° are found when Δβ e ≳ 1.0; this apparent restriction weakens when employing Δβ$^*_e$, as the corresponding data points shift toward smaller values of the modified electron beta jump. These findings quantitatively support theoretical predictions of reconnection suppression in high-β e plasmas at low shears, attributed to X-line drift induced by pressure gradients across electron-scale current sheets.
Long-Time Variation of Magnetic Structure in (Pr x La 1-x )Co 2 Si 2 : Coexistence of Slow and Fast Processes in Magnetic Phase Transition
In this paper, long-time variations of the magnetic structure in PrCo 2 Si 2 and (Pr 0.98 La 0.02 )Co 2 Si 2 were studied by magnetization and time-resolved neutron scattering measurements. The amplitudes of magnetic Bragg peaks showed marked time variations after cooling or heating across the magnetic transition temperature T 1 between two different antiferromagnetic phases. However, the amplitude of the time variation decreased rapidly with increasing distance from T 1 . Finally, we analyzed the results on the basis of a phase transition model that includes the coexistence of fast and slow processes.
Magnetism, dimensional changes, and magnetic transitions in hydrated cesium manganese chloride
Dimensional changes (strain) along the three principal crystal axes of the antiferromagnet CsMnCl3-2H2O are studied as a function of magnetic field and temperature in the antiferromagnetic, spin flopped, and paramagnetic phases. Changes in dimensions through the phase transitions between the magnetic states are examined. By applying the molecular field model and utilizing all available information, magnetic properties of CsMnCl3-2H2O are determined. The possible usefulness of this material in a magnetic refrigeration cycle is evaluated.