Speaker
Daniel Mazzone
Description
I will present our current understanding of the magnetic degrees of freedom in Ni3TeO6, a non-centrosymmetric hexagonal material that undergoes a field-induced first-order phase transition with emergent multiferroic properties. Using neutron scattering under in-plane magnetic fields we find that the collinear spin structure becomes likely chiral at large fields. The low-energy spin-wave excitations at zero field act as a precursor of the putative chiral state. They split in field and provide evidence for a Zeeman-induced mode condensation at the magnetic phase boundary.
Authors
Dr
Jakob Lass
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
Dr
Alexandra Turrini
Dr
Romain Sibille
Dr
Andreas Kreisel
Dr
Henrik Jacobsen
Dr
Machteld Kamminga
Prof.
Ronnow Henrik
Prof.
Kim Lefmann
Prof.
Christof Niedermayer
Daniel Mazzone
