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Condensed Matter > Strongly Correlated Electrons

Title: Quasicrystalline chiral soliton lattices in a Fibonacci helimagnet

Abstract: We investigate the ground state magnetic configurations of a Fibonacci chain of classical spins with nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic and monoaxial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange interactions. Our analysis reveals a diverse array of magnetic textures induced by an external magnetic field perpendicular to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya vector. These textures exhibit a spectrum ranging from a quasi-fully polarized non-collinear state under high magnetic fields, capable of maintaining metastable chiral soliton topological defects, to a variety of quasicrystalline chiral soliton lattices below a critical field $H_c$. For a range of magnetic fields below $H_c$, the ground state spin textures result from the interplay between an effective quasiperiodic potential influencing the solitons and their repulsive interactions. At lower magnetic fields, the system experiences a commensurate-incommensurate transition, signified by the appearance of discommensurations in the quasicrystalline soliton lattice. In the absence of an external magnetic field, the ground state assumes a helical configuration with a quasiperiodic pitch angle.
Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
Cite as: arXiv:2404.13810 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2404.13810v1 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

Submission history

From: Pablo S. Cornaglia [view email]
[v1] Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:08:06 GMT (427kb,D)

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