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Heterobilayer moir\'e magnets: moir\'e skyrmions and the commensurate-incommensurate transition

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-09-15 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We study untwisted heterobilayers of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic van der Waals materials, with in particular a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the ferromagnetic layer. A continuum low energy field theory is utilized to study such systems. We develop a phase diagram as a function of the strength of inter-layer exchange and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, combining perturbative and strong coupling analyses with numerical simulations using Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations. Various moir\'e-periodic commensurate phases are found, and the commensurate-incommensurate transition is discussed. Among the commensurate phases, we observe an interesting skyrmion lattice phase wherein each moir\'e unit cell hosts one skyrmion.

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@article{arxiv.2009.00860,
  title  = {Heterobilayer moir\'e magnets: moir\'e skyrmions and the commensurate-incommensurate transition},
  author = {Kasra Hejazi and Zhu-Xi Luo and Leon Balents},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00860},
  year   = {2021}
}

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