Inhomogeneous State of the Bi₂Te₃ Doped with Manganese

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• 作者：V. Sakhin ; E. Kukovitskii ; N. Garif’yanov…
• 关键词：Topological insulator ; Magnetic doping ; Electron spin resonance
• 刊名：Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：30
• 期：1
• 页码：63-67
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials; Condensed Matter Physics; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1557-1947
• 卷排序：30

文摘

Basing on electron spin resonance (ESR) data for Bi₂Te₃ doped by Mn ions we argue that this compound can be inhomogeneous and consists of two components with the different structures. Its main phase Bi _2−xMn _xTe ₃ is intertwined with the microscopical inclusions of MnBi phase. The integral volume of these intermetal clusters is less than 1 % but nevertheless they exert the serious impact on the dynamic magnetic properties of the entire system. These inclusions are ferromagnetic with the Curie temperature of 630 K, while the main bulk phase Bi _2−xMn _xTe ₃ has x= 0.05 orders at T_c= 10 K (qualitatively this twophase picture is valid not only for this given x). Below this temperature two ferromagnetic phases coexist. Since the integral spontaneous polarization in MnBi phase is averaged out due to its random orientations in different clusters the time-reversal symmetry of Bi ₂Te ₃ doped by Mn ions is violated only at the low-temperature ferromagnetic transition.