Large ordered moment with strong easy-plane anisotropy and vortex-domain pattern in the kagome ferromagnet Fe3Sn (original) (raw)

Applied Physics Letters

Abstract

We report the magnetic anisotropy of kagome bilayer ferromagnet Fe3Sn probed by the bulk magnetometry and magnetic force microscopy (MFM) on high-quality single crystals. The dependence of magnetization on the orientation of the external magnetic field reveals strong easy-plane magnetocrystalline anisotropy and anisotropy of the saturation magnetization. The leading magnetocrystalline anisotropy constant shows a monotonous increase from K1≈−1.0×106 J/m3 at 300 K to −1.3×106 J/m3 at 2 K. Our ab initio electronic structure calculations yield the value of total magnetic moment of 7.1 μB/f.u. and a magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy density of −0.57 meV/f.u. (−1.62×106J/m3) both being in reasonable agreement with the experimental values. The MFM imaging reveals micrometer-scale magnetic vortices with weakly pinned cores that vanish at the saturation field of ∼3 T applied perpendicular to the kagome plane. The observed vortex-domain structure is well reproduced by the micromagnetic sim...

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