Thermodynamic, elastic, and electronic properties of substances with a chiral crystal structure: MnSi, FeSi, and CoSi
S.M. Stishov†,
A.E. Petrova Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prosp. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
Transition metal silicides crystallizing in a B20 chiral structure whose space group P213 does not contain an inversion center feature a number of remarkable properties that have been studied for many decades. We analyze investigations of MnSi, FeSi, and CoSi, the most studied materials of this class, which are a sequence of a magnetic metal, a semiconductor, and a semimetal. Each of these materials exhibits the influence of spatial symmetry on certain features of the electronic and phonon spectra, some of which have been discovered quite recently.
@article{Stishov:2023,author = {S. M. Stishov and A. E. Petrova},title = {Thermodynamic, elastic, and electronic properties of substances with a chiral crystal structure: MnSi, FeSi, and CoSi},publisher = {Physics-Uspekhi},year = {2023},journal = {Phys. Usp.},volume = {66},number = {6},pages = {576-585},url = {https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2023/6/b/},doi = {10.3367/UFNe.2021.11.039104}}
Received: 28th, October 2021, accepted: 18th, November 2021