Abstract
We report detailed low-temperature magnetotransport and magnetization measurements in MnSi under pressures up to . Tracking the role of sample quality, pressure transmitter, and field and temperature history allows us to link the emergence of a giant topological Hall resistivity to the skyrmion lattice phase at ambient pressure. We show that the remarkably large size of the topological Hall resistivity in the zero-temperature limit must be generic. We discuss various mechanisms which can lead to the much smaller signal at elevated temperatures observed at ambient pressure.
7 More- Received 13 November 2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.134424
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