Tunable exchange bias in dilute magnetic alloys – chiral spin glasses

Tunable exchange bias in dilute magnetic alloys – chiral spin glasses

Matthias Hudl, Roland Mathieu and Per Nordblad

Scientific Reports 6, 19964 (2016)

(a) The central part of M vs. H loops after cooling the sample in H_FC to 5 K, and measure the hysteresis loop on decreasing the field to – H_FC and back to +H_FC. The insets show the field dependence of the parameter H_sw1, H_sw2, (right) and ΔM (left) in the H_FC range 1 to 9 T. (b) Full hysteresis loops measured at 5 K from 0 to 14, 14 to −14 and then back +14 T. The inset shows the central part of the loop and the fields H_sw1 and H_sw2 are marked. The jump and definition of the excess magnetization, ΔM, is indicated in the main frame. (c,d) The central part of the hysteresis loops measured after field cooling (c) and zero field cooling (d) in fields up to 5 T at 5 K. The arrows indicate the initial field sweep direction. (Red loops- positive initial fields, blue loops - negative initial fields).