Theory of helical magnetic structures and phase transitions in MnSi and FeGe

10 November 1980

journal article
Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics

Vol. 13 (31) , L881-L885
https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3719/13/31/002

Abstract

The long-period helical magnetic structures in MnSi and FeGe are shown to be consequences of a ferromagnetic Dzyaloshinskii instability (1964). Renormalisation group theory predicts the transition to be first order, in agreement with experiments on MnSi.

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