Real-Space Imaging of Intrinsic Symmetry-Breaking Spin Textures in a Kagome Lattice.

ABSTRACT: The electronic orders in kagome materials have emerged as a fertile platform for studying exotic quantum states, and their intertwining with the unique kagome lattice geometry remains elusive. While various unconventional charge orders with broken symmetry is observed, the influence of kagome symmetry on magnetic order has so far not been directly observed. Here, using a high-resolution magnetic force microscopy, it is, for the first time, observed a new lattice form of noncollinear spin textures in the kagome ferromagnet in zero magnetic field. Under the influence of the sixfold rotational symmetry of the kagome lattice, the spin textures are hexagonal in shape and can further form a honeycomb lattice structure. Subsequent thermal cycling measurements reveal that these spin textures trans

SUBMITTER: Xie C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11497059 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature