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@MASTERSTHESIS{Thoma:859546,
author = {Thoma, Henrik},
title = {{T}he {S}ign of the {D}zyaloshinskii-{M}oriya {I}nteraction
in {R}-3c {S}ymmetries},
school = {TUM: Technische Universität München},
type = {Masterarbeit},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-00398},
pages = {90 p.},
year = {2018},
note = {Masterarbeit, TUM: Technische Universität München, 2018},
abstract = {The Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya (DM) interaction is a type of
exchange-coupling between twospins that can have significant
effects on the properties of magnetic materials. Its
magnitudeis usually small, but its direction is often a
decisive factor in the determination ofthe system’s
chirality. A better understanding of the spin–orbit
interaction and its implicationshave been a particular
target of condensed matter research over the past
decade:multiferroics, topological insulators, and Rashba and
Dresselhaus spin–orbit coupling areall intensively
studied. Recently in Nature Physics, V. Dmitrienko and
colleagues havefound a way to measure the sign of the
coupling vector, in order to determine the directionof the
DM interaction, using sophisticated techniques based on
synchrotron spectroscopy.In this Master thesis, the sign of
the DM interaction is determined in hematite
(alpha-Fe2O3)and rhodochrosite (MnCO3) single crystals with
R-3c symmetry by means of polarizedneutron diffraction
(PND).The theoretical basis for the DM interaction, based on
a symmetry analysis in both compounds,is introduced. The
polarized single crystal diffraction theory and its
methodsare briefly presented. A dedicated PND setup, using a
new symmetric-field high Tc superconductingmagnet with a
maximal field of 2.2T in combination with a 3He polarizerand
Mezei-type flipper, has been developed. The corresponding
numerical simulationsand optimization for each component are
presented and the complete setup is successfullytested and
calibrated.This new PND setup is used to collected
flipping-ratio (FR) data as function of the appliedmagnetic
field and temperature for both compounds. The measured data
were evaluatedaccording to the theoretical basis provided in
the first part of this thesis. In addition, anadvanced
approach for the reconstruction of maximum entropy spin
density maps fromFR data is presented and appropriate
software tools developed. Using these softwaretools, 3D spin
density maps are build for the paramagnetic and
antiferromangetic phase,in both compounds for the first
time, revealing new features compared to the results
fromconventional maximum entropy software.The analysis of
the obtained spin density distribution maps showed clearly
on one sidethat the origin of the magnetic scattering is not
the localized moments at the atomic positions,but rather
magnetic fields of the displaced orbitals. On the other
side, 3D mapsallowed the extraction of the sign of the DM
interaction.},
cin = {JCNS-FRM-II / JCNS-2 / JARA-FIT / TUM},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-FRM-II-20110218 /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-2-20110106 / $I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$ /
I:(DE-588b)36241-4},
pnm = {524 - Controlling Collective States (POF3-524) / 6212 -
Quantum Condensed Matter: Magnetism, Superconductivity
(POF3-621) / 6G15 - FRM II / MLZ (POF3-6G15) / 6G4 - Jülich
Centre for Neutron Research (JCNS) (POF3-623)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-524 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6212 /
G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G15 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G4},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)POLI-HEIDI-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)19},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/859546},
}