ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Muon spin relaxation study of biskyrmions in MnNiGa

Abstract: Skyrmions are chiral spin textures that exist in a variety of magnetic materials. These states are topologically non-trivial, which gives them stability expected to be useful for applications such as computer memory storage or spintronics computing. MnNiGa has recently been shown to exhibit biskyrmions, which are a novel variation on the skyrmion phase that are not well understood. We have previously shown that muon spin relaxation is a useful technique to probe the skyrmion state in other materials, and have recently performed an initial experiment at ISIS on MnNiGa. This experiment for the first time showed a signal that appears to reflect the dynamics of biskyrmions. We now propose to perform additional muon spin relaxation measurements to complete our study of the biskyrmion state in MnNiGa.

Principal Investigator: Dr Murray Wilson
Experimenter: Dr Thomas Hicken
Local Contact: Dr Peter Baker
Experimenter: Professor Matja? Gomil?ek
Experimenter: Dr Ales Stefancic
Experimenter: Professor Tom Lancaster
Experimenter: Mr Sam Holt
Experimenter: Professor Geetha Balakrishnan

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910354

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1910354

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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