We present a systematic study of the ac susceptibility of the chiral magnet ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{1-x}{\mathrm{Co}}_x\mathrm{Si}$ with $x=0.30$ covering four orders of magnitude in frequencies from 0.1 Hz to 1 kHz, with particular emphasis to the pronounced history dependence. Characteristic relaxation times ranging from a few milliseconds to tens of seconds are observed around the skyrmion lattice A phase, the helical-to-conical transition and in a region above $T_C$. The distribution of relaxation frequencies around the A phase is broad, asymmetric, and originates from multiple coexisting relaxation processes. The pronounced dependence of the magnetic phase diagram on the magnetic history and cooling rates as well as the asymmetric frequency dependence and slow dynamics suggest more complicated physical phenomena in ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{0.7}{\mathrm{Co}}_{0.3}\mathrm{Si}$ than in other chiral magnets.

• Received 1 August 2016
• Revised 6 October 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.134433