Chiral magnetic soliton lattice in chiral inorganic compounds

We report chiral magnetic ordering in ferromagnetic inorganic compounds T1/3MS2 (T=Cr and Mn, M=Nb and Ta) with a chiral space group of P6322. We measured the magnetization, powder neutron diffraction and small angle electron diffraction experiments. The experimental results indicate formation of long periodic helimagnetic ordering and chiral magnetic soliton lattice, and were in good agreement with the theoretical prediction based on the chiral magnetic soliton formation. Therefore, we propose that the magnetic ordering in ferromagnetic T1/3MS2 is not ferromagnetic, but chiral magnetic ordering. (author)