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Biaxial Strain Control of Helimagnetism via Chemical Expansion in Thin Film SrFeO3
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19 Feb 2026
Abstract
We demonstrate control of helimagnetic order in biaxially strained SrFeO3 thin films using neutron diffraction and resonant soft x-ray scattering. SrFeO3, a negative charge-transfer oxide, exhibits a complex magnetic phase diagram that includes multi-q spin structures. Tensile epitaxial strain produces a pronounced shortening of the helimagnetic ordering length and a tilting of the magnetic ordering vector. We interpret this behavior in terms of chemical expansion: lattice dilation under tensile strain lowers the energetic cost of oxygen vacancies, leading to an expanded unit cell that modifies Fe-O hybridization and enhances superexchange relative to double exchange. These results reveal how epitaxial strain can indirectly tune helimagnetism through defect-driven chemical expansion, highlighting the strong coupling between lattice, chemistry, and magnetic order in transition-metal oxides. Our findings establish chemical expansion as an effective mechanism for engineering complex magnetic textures in oxide thin films, with implications for spintronic, magnonic, and quantum information applications.
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- Title
- Biaxial Strain Control of Helimagnetism via Chemical Expansion in Thin Film SrFeO3
- Creators
- Jennifer FowlieJiarui LiDanilo PuggioniLucas BarretoLin Ding YuanJames M RondinelliRonny SutartoTeak D BoykoFabio OrlandiPascal ManuelDmitry KhalyavinEder G LomeliBrian MoritzThomas P DevereauxSkylar KorolukRobert J GreenSteven J MayHarold Y Hwang
- Publication Details
- ArXiv.org
- Resource Type
- Preprint
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Other Identifier
- 991022163435904721