An X-ray study of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the weak ferromagnet FeBO3

V. E. Dmitrienko (1) , E. N. Ovchinnikova (2) , S. P. Collins (3) , G. Nisbet (3) , G. Beutier (4)

1 IC RAS - A. V. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography
2 MSU - Lomonosov Moscow State University
3 DIAMOND Light source
4 SIMaP - Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés

We report on the axis, magnitude and direction of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction in the weak ferromagnet FeBO3. The latter relies on the determination of the phase of the magnetic x-ray scattering amplitude. We outline a new technique based on interference with forbidden quadrupole resonant scattering to obtain this phase information.

Domaines: Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

V. E. Dmitrienko, E. N. Ovchinnikova, S. P. Collins, G. Nisbet, G. Beutier. An X-ray study of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the weak ferromagnet FeBO3. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2014, 519, pp.2003. ⟨10.1088/1742-6596/519/1/012003⟩. ⟨hal-01071846⟩