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Tunable Emergent Gauge Fields from Skyrmions in a Quasicrystalline Lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2026-07-08 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We study magnetic skyrmions in a two-dimensional quasicrystalline lattice using a classical Heisenberg model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and an external magnetic field. The competition between the skyrmion-skyrmion repulsion and an emergent quasiperiodic pinning landscape gives rise to a sequence of distinct skyrmion lattice configurations as a function of field. The resulting hierarchy of quasiperiodic pinning potentials, characterized by closely spaced quasi-degenerate minima, enables a quasi-continuous suppression of the skyrmion density as the saturation field is approached, in sharp contrast to the strongly first-order collapse of skyrmion crystals on periodic lattices. This provides a direct mechanism for controlling the topological charge and, consequently, the emergent gauge field for itinerant electrons. As a consequence, the Hall conductivity can be strongly modified with small changes in the magnetic field and driven smoothly to zero near saturation. This field-controlled tunability, rooted in the underlying multistability, identifies quasicrystalline magnets as a platform for tunable topological textures, with potential applications in magnetic memory and magnetoelectronic response.

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@article{arxiv.2607.07948,
  title  = {Tunable Emergent Gauge Fields from Skyrmions in a Quasicrystalline Lattice},
  author = {Leandro M. Chinellato and Flavia A. Gómez Albarracín and Cristian D. Batista and Pablo S. Cornaglia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.07948},
  year   = {2026}
}

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13+3 pages, 11+3 figures