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Crystal symmetry lowering in chiral multiferroic Ba 3 TaFe 3 Si 2 O 14 observed by x-ray magnetic scattering

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Chiral multiferroic langasites have attracted attention due to their doubly chiral magnetic ground state within an enantiomorphic crystal. We report on a detailed resonant soft x-ray diffraction study of the multiferroic Ba3TaFe3Si2O14 at the FeL2,3 and oxygenK edges. BelowTN (≈27K)we observe the satellite reflections (0,0,τ ), (0,0,2τ ), (0,0,3τ ), and (0,0,1 − 3τ) where τ ≈ 0.140 ± 0.001. The dependence of the scattering intensity on x-ray polarization and azimuthal angle indicate that the odd harmonics are dominated by the out-of-plane (ˆc axis) magnetic dipole while the (0,0,2τ ) originates from the electron density distortions accompanying magnetic order.We observe dissimilar energy dependencies of the diffraction intensity of the purelymagnetic odd-harmonic satellites at the Fe L3 edge. Utilizing first-principles calculations, we show that this is a consequence of the loss of threefold crystal symmetry in the multiferroic phase.
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hal-01564971 , version 1 (19-07-2017)

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M. Ramakrishnan, Yves Joly, Y. W. Windsor, L. Rettig, A. Alberca, et al.. Crystal symmetry lowering in chiral multiferroic Ba 3 TaFe 3 Si 2 O 14 observed by x-ray magnetic scattering. Physical Review B, 2017, 95 (20), pp.205145. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.95.205145⟩. ⟨hal-01564971⟩

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