Anisotropic mesoscale magnetic scattering across the spin-reorientation transition in TbMn6Sn6

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TbMn6Sn6 is a centrosymmetric ferrimagnetic kagome metal that combines topological electronic states with strong magnetic anisotropy and a near-room-temperature spin-reorientation transition (SRT). Real-space imaging studies of thin specimens have revealed helical stripes, biskyrmion-like textures, and skyrmion-bubble-like structures in the spin-reorientation regime. Whether such local textures develop into a bulk long-range-ordered skyrmion lattice remains unresolved. Here we present small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) results probing the mesoscale magnetism of a bulk TbMn6Sn6 single crystal. We observe no sixfold SANS Bragg pattern indicative of a long-range-ordered skyrmion lattice under the explored conditions. Instead, the dominant magnetic response is an anisotropic twofold low-Q scattering component whose intensity distribution and field dependence evolve markedly across the spin-reorientation regime. In zero field, a broad and horizontally elongated low-Q signal develops above TSR and weakens as the system approaches the paramagnetic state. At 345 K with H || b, the signal is diffuse and is suppressed rapidly below about 700 Oe. By contrast, at 310 K with H || c, close to TSR, the response is more concentrated and line-shaped and persists to higher fields. The contrasts between these scans likely reflect the combined effects of rapidly evolving magnetic anisotropy near TSR and the field geometry. Our results therefore establish a bulk anisotropic mesoscale magnetic response across the spin-reorientation regime, consistent with stripe- or domain-related textures reported by real-space imaging, while not uniquely identifying their real-space morphology.

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@misc{xu2026anisotropic,
  title = {{Anisotropic mesoscale magnetic scattering across the spin-reorientation transition in TbMn6Sn6}},
  author = {Zhuang Xu and Fan Chen and Hui Cheng and Xinmin Wang and Taisen Zuo and He Cheng and Haitao Hu and Cuiping Zhang and Qian Zhao and Michel Kenzelmann and Jonathan S. White and Junying Shen and Xin Tong},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.04903},
  eprint = {2610.04903},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04903},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Anisotropic mesoscale magnetic scattering across the spin-reorientation transition in TbMn6Sn6
AU  - Zhuang Xu
AU  - Fan Chen
AU  - Hui Cheng
AU  - Xinmin Wang
AU  - Taisen Zuo
AU  - He Cheng
AU  - Haitao Hu
AU  - Cuiping Zhang
AU  - Qian Zhao
AU  - Michel Kenzelmann
AU  - Jonathan S. White
AU  - Junying Shen
AU  - Xin Tong
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/04
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.04903
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04903
AB  - TbMn6Sn6 is a centrosymmetric ferrimagnetic kagome metal that combines topological electronic states with strong magnetic anisotropy and a near-room-temperature spin-reorientation transition (SRT). Real-space imaging studies of thin specimens have revealed helical stripes, biskyrmion-like textures, and skyrmion-bubble-like structures in the spin-reorientation regime. Whether such local textures develop into a bulk long-range-ordered skyrmion lattice remains unresolved. Here we present small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) results probing the mesoscale magnetism of a bulk TbMn6Sn6 single crystal. We observe no sixfold SANS Bragg pattern indicative of a long-range-ordered skyrmion lattice under the explored conditions. Instead, the dominant magnetic response is an anisotropic twofold low-Q scattering component whose intensity distribution and field dependence evolve markedly across the spin-reorientation regime. In zero field, a broad and horizontally elongated low-Q signal develops above TSR and weakens as the system approaches the paramagnetic state. At 345 K with H || b, the signal is diffuse and is suppressed rapidly below about 700 Oe. By contrast, at 310 K with H || c, close to TSR, the response is more concentrated and line-shaped and persists to higher fields. The contrasts between these scans likely reflect the combined effects of rapidly evolving magnetic anisotropy near TSR and the field geometry. Our results therefore establish a bulk anisotropic mesoscale magnetic response across the spin-reorientation regime, consistent with stripe- or domain-related textures reported by real-space imaging, while not uniquely identifying their real-space morphology.
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