Driving Skyrmions in a Composite Bilayer
Abstract
Magnetic Skyrmions and multiferroics are the most interesting objects in nanostructure science that have great potential in future spin-electronic technology. The study of multiferroic Skyrmions has attracted much interest in recent years. This article reports magnetic Bloch Skyrmions induced by an electric driving field in a composite bilayer (chiral-magnetic/ferroelectric bilayer) lattice. By using the spin dynamics method, we use a classical magnetic spin model and an electric pseudospin model, which are coupled by a strong magnetoelectric coupling in the dynamical simulations. Interestingly, we observe some skyrmion-like objects in the electric component either during the switching process or by applying a magnetic field, which is due to the connection between the electric and the magnetic structures.
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@article{arxiv.1606.04595,
title = {Driving Skyrmions in a Composite Bilayer},
author = {Zidong Wang and Malcolm J. Grimson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04595},
year = {2016}
}
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Supplemental Material at: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.3669.1606/1 or: http://journals.aps.org/prb/supplemental/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.014311 arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1601.01383