Local Inversion Symmetry Breaking and Thermodynamic Evidence for Ferrimagnetism in Fe3GaTe2

January 2025 Sang-Eon Lee; Yue Li; Yeonkyu Lee; W. Kice Brown; PeiYu Cai; Jinyoung Yun; Chanyoung Lee; Alex Moon; Lingrui Mei; Jaeyong Kim; Yan Xin; Julie A. Borchers; Thomas W. Heitmann; Matthias Frontzek; William D. Ratcliff; Gregory T. McCandless; Julia Y. Chan; Elton J. G. Santos; Jeehoon Kim; Charudatta M. Phatak; Vadym Kulichenko; Luis Balicas ACS Nano 19, 28702-28718 (2025)

Summary

This paper reports thermodynamic and structural signatures of ferrimagnetism in Fe3GaTe2 and connects local symmetry breaking to emergent chiral textures.

My contribution

I investigated how local symmetry breaking affects topological textures and differentiated between Neel and Bloch-hybrid skyrmion types by tuning material parameters to match Lorentz TEM observations.