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The increasing exploration of nanomagnetism into the third dimension lead to the discovery of novel frustration mechanisms and ensuing magnetic configurations and textures, many with unprecedented properties [1]. The fundamental understanding of these configurations and the interactions stabilizing them requires a quantitative microscopy technique revealing 3D magnetic structures with a spatial resolution below characteristic magnetic length scales pertaining to a given problem. In our contribution we introduce holographic vector-field electron tomography (VFET), a combination of off-axis electron holography (EH) and electron tomography in the transmission electron microscope (TEM), facilitating sub-10 nanometer spatial resolution [2, 3]. Off-axis EH utilizes an interferometric setup to determine the phase shift of an electron wave that passed through the sample. The Aharonov-Bohm phase shift of ferro-magnetic samples is proportional to projections of both electric potential (mainly mean inner potential) and magnetic flux density (B-field), which allows to reconstruct them in 3D from a tilt series of 2D phase images by tomographic methods [2]. The principle and workflow of holographic VFET is illustrated in Fig. 1. In addition to the comprehensive workflow of recording and reconstructing the 3D data, crucial steps of alignment and image processing, e.g., precise displacement correction of 2D projections and 3D tomograms, phase unwrapping, denoising, etc. are addressed. Fig. 2 shows two examples, how holographic VFET is applied to reveal 3D magnetic configurations in nanoscale magnetic materials. In Figs. 2a,b, we present 3D remanent states in a Co-rich CoNi cylindrical nanowire (NW) with a diameter of 70 nm and the hcp c-axis oriented almost perpendicular to the NW axis [4]. We observed two different remanent states after the application of an external saturation field of 2 T perpendicular (Fig. 2a) and parallel (Fig. 2b) to the NW axis. The external field direction perpendicular to both the wire axis and the magnetocrystalline easy axis resulted in a transverse-vortex chain configuration, whereas a field direction parallel to the wire axis produced longitudinal vortex domains with their cores aligned along the applied field, but with alternately opposite chirality. Micromagnetic simulations confirm our findings and enable us to understand the origin of the observed complex magnetic states, in particular, reveal a large influence of the NW morphology on the remanent state. In Fig. 2c, the first 3D reconstruction of Bloch-Skyrmions in a FeGe needle-shaped FIB sample taken at 90K temperature is depicted. The reconstructed textures provide insights into a variety of previously unseen local deviations from a homogeneous Bloch character within the skyrmion tubes (SkTs), details of the collapse of the skyrmion texture at surfaces, and a correlated modulation of the SkT in FeGe along their tube axes. [5]

**References:**

[1] A. Fernandez-Pacheco et al., Nat Commun 8, p.15756 (2017) [2] D. Wolf et al., Chem Mater 27, p. 6771 (2015) [3] D. Wolf et al., Comm Phys 2, p. 87 (2019) [4] I.M. Andersen et al., submitted (2021) [5] D. Wolf et al., to be submitted (2021) [6] DW and AL have received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program of the European Union (grant agreement number 715620). AL, and SS acknowledge financial support through the Priority Program SPP2137 of the German Research Foundation (DFG) within projects LU-2261/2-1 and RE-1164/6-1.

**Images:**

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Principle and workflow of holographic vector-field electron tomography (VFET) in the transmission electron microscope (adapted from Ref. [3]). (1) Modulation of electron waves by magnetic sample, (2) Interference of modulated object wave with unmodulated reference wave by an electrostatic biprism building up an electron hologram, (3) Reconstruction of hologram yielding amplitude and phase shift of object wave, (4) Acquisition of two tilt series around two tilt axes, X and Y, providing two (ideally 360°) phase tilt series, (5/6) Calculation of half the sum/difference of opposite projections (green/red arrow) resulting in electric/magnetic phase tilt series, (7) 3D reconstruction of electric potential from electric phase tilt series, (8) 3D Reconstruction of the two magnetic B-field components Bx (By) from the derivatives in y (x) - direction of the magnetic phase tilt series, (9) Computation of Bz component by solving divB=0.


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Holographic VFET of magnetic nanostructures. (a,b) Volume rendering of the By component of the reconstructed magnetic induction B of two remanent magnetic states (a) and (b) in a Co-rich CoNi nanowire (70 nm diameter) after external field HSat applied perpendicular (a) and parallel (b) to the wire axis. The magnified regions with vectors slices show transverse vortex chains in (a) and longitudinal vortex domains of alternating chirality separated by a domain wall in (b). (c) Volume rendering of the in-plane components Bx, By according to the colorwheel and iso-surface of the mean inner potential reconstruction highlighting the FeGe FIB-prepared specimen shape (grey, bottom half only). The magnified views visualize a single skyrmion tube (SkT) in which the three vectors slices plot the 3D spin texture inside the SkT at different z-heights.

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