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    Universality and Critical Behavior at the Critical-End-Point on Itinerant-Metamagnet UCoAl

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    We performed nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR) measurements on itinerant-electron metamagnet UCoAl in order to investigate the critical behavior of the magnetism near a metamagnetic (MM) critical endpoint (CEP). We derived c-axis magnetization McM_c and its fluctuation ScS_c from the measurements of Knight shift and nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T11/T_1 as a function of the c-axis external field (HcH_c) and temperature (TT). We developed contour plots of McM_c and ScS_c on the HcH_c - TT phase diagram, and observed the strong divergence of ScS_c at the CEP. The critical exponents of McM_c and ScS_c near the CEP are estimated, and found to be close to the universal properties of a three-dimensional (3-D) Ising model. We indicate that the critical phenomena at the itinerant-electron MM CEP in UCoAl have a common feature as a gas-liquid transition.Comment: 8 Pages, 14 figure

    Spin Susceptibility in the Superconducting state of Ferromagnetic Superconductor UCoGe

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    In order to determine the superconducting paring state in the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe, ^{59}Co NMR Knight shift, which is directly related to the microscopic spin susceptibility, was measured in the superconducting state under magnetic fields perpendicular to spontaneous magnetization axis: ^{59}K^{a, b}. ^{59}K^{a, b} shows to be constant, but does not decrease below a superconducting transition. These behaviors as well as the invariance of the internal field at the Co site in the superconducting state exclude the spin-singlet pairing, and can be interpreted with the equal-spin pairing state with a large exchange field along the c axis, which was studied by Mineev [Phys. Rev. B 81, 180504 (2010)].Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, to be appear in PR

    Nonreciprocal Phonon Propagation in a Metallic Chiral Magnet

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    The phonon magnetochiral effect (MChE) is the nonreciprocal acoustic and thermal transports of phonons caused by the simultaneous breaking of the mirror and time-reversal symmetries. So far, the phonon MChE has been observed only in a ferrimagnetic insulator Cu2OSeO3, where the nonreciprocal response disappears above the Curie temperature of 58 K. Here, we study the nonreciprocal acoustic properties of a room-temperature ferromagnet Co9Zn9Mn2 for unveiling the phonon MChE close to the room temperature. Surprisingly, the nonreciprocity in this metallic compound is enhanced at higher temperatures and observed up to 250 K. This clear contrast between insulating Cu2OSeO3 and metallic Co9Zn9Mn2 suggests that metallic magnets have a mechanism to enhance the nonreciprocity at higher temperatures. From the ultrasound and microwave-spectroscopy experiments, we conclude that the magnitude of the phonon MChE of Co9Zn9Mn2 mostly depends on the magnon bandwidth, which increases at low temperatures and hinders the magnon-phonon hybridization. Our results suggest that the phonon nonreciprocity could be further enhanced by engineering the magnon band of materials.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl

    Disordered skyrmion phase stabilized by magnetic frustration in a chiral magnet

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    Magnetic skyrmions are vortex-like topological spin textures often observed to form a triangular-lattice skyrmion crystal in structurally chiral magnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Recently β\beta-Mn structure-type Co-Zn-Mn alloys were identified as a new class of chiral magnet to host such skyrmion crystal phases, while β\beta-Mn itself is known as hosting an elemental geometrically frustrated spin liquid. Here we report the intermediate composition system Co7_7Zn7_7Mn6_6 to be a unique host of two disconnected, thermal-equilibrium topological skyrmion phases; one is a conventional skyrmion crystal phase stabilized by thermal fluctuations and restricted to exist just below the magnetic transition temperature TcT_\mathrm{c}, and the other is a novel three-dimensionally disordered skyrmion phase that is stable well below TcT_\mathrm{c}. The stability of this new disordered skyrmion phase is due to a cooperative interplay between the chiral magnetism with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and the frustrated magnetism inherent to β\beta-Mn.Comment: 57 pages, 16 figure
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