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Current-Driven Dynamics of Frustrated Skyrmions in a Synthetic Antiferromagnetic Bilayer

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-04-18 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

We report the current-driven dynamics of frustrated skyrmions in an antiferromagnetically exchange coupled bilayer system, where the bilayer skyrmion consists of two monolayer skyrmions with opposite skyrmion numbers QQ. We show that the in-plane current-driven bilayer skyrmion moves in a straight path, while the out-of-plane current-driven bilayer skyrmion moves in a circular path. It is found that the in-plane current-driven mobility of a bilayer skyrmion is much better than the monolayer one at a large ratio of β/α\beta/\alpha, where α\alpha and β\beta denote the damping parameter and non-adiabatic spin transfer torque strength, respectively. Besides, the out-of-plane current-driven mobility of a bilayer skyrmion is much better than the monolayer one when α\alpha is small. We also reveal that one bilayer skyrmion (consisting of monolayer skyrmions with Q=±2Q=\pm 2) can be separated to two bilayer skyrmions (consisting of monolayer skyrmions with Q=±1Q=\pm 1) driven by an out-of-plane current. Our results may be useful for designing skyrmionic devices based on frustrated multilayer magnets.

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@article{arxiv.1812.00520,
  title  = {Current-Driven Dynamics of Frustrated Skyrmions in a Synthetic Antiferromagnetic Bilayer},
  author = {Jing Xia and Xichao Zhang and Motohiko Ezawa and Zhipeng Hou and Wenhong Wang and Xiaoxi Liu and Yan Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.00520},
  year   = {2019}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures