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Friction plays an essential role in most physical processes that we experience in our everyday life. Examples range from our ability to walk or swim, to setting boundaries of speed and fuel efficiency of moving vehicles. In magnetic…

In chiral magnetic materials, numerous intriguing phenomena such as built in chiral magnetic domain walls (DWs) and skyrmions are generated by the Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction (DMI). The DMI also results in asymmetric DW speed under in…

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in magnetic systems stabilizes spin textures with preferred chirality, applicable to next-generation memory and computing architectures. In perpendicularly magnetized heavy-metal/ferromagnet…

Chiral magnetic materials provide a number of challenging issues such as the highly efficient domain wall (DW) and skyrmion motions driven by electric current, as of the operation principles of emerging spintronic devices. The DWs in the…

Magnetic domain-walls (DWs) with a preferred chirality exhibit very efficient current-driven motion. Since structural inversion asymmetry (SIA) is required for their stability, the observation of chiral domain walls in highly symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Jeroen H. Franken , Mark Herps , Henk J. M. Swagten , Bert Koopmans

Chirality causes diverse phenomena in nature such as the formation of biological molecules, antimatters, non-collinear spin structures, and magnetic skyrmions. The chirality in magnetic materials is often caused by the noncollinear exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-10 Duck-Ho Kim , Sang-Cheol Yoo , Dae-Yun Kim , Byoung-Chul Min , Sug-Bong Choe

We demonstrate here that ultrathin ferromagnetic Pt/Co/Pt films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy exhibit a sizeable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) effect. Such a DMI effect modifies the domain-wall (DW) energy density and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-25 Soong-Geun Je , Duck-Ho Kim , Sang-Cheol Yoo , Byoung-Chul Min , Kyung-Jin Lee , Sug-Bong Choe

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) of a heavy metal (HM)/ferromagnetic (FM) metal heterostructure is vital to the current-induced domain wall motion (CIDWM) at an ultrahigh velocity. However, strong DMI also tilts the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Maokang Shen , Yue Zhang , Wei Luo , Long You , Xiaofei Yang

In most ferromagnets the magnetization rotates from one domain to the next with no preferred handedness. However, broken inversion symmetry can lift the chiral degeneracy, leading to topologically-rich spin textures such as spin-spirals and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-29 Satoru Emori , Uwe Bauer , Sung-Min Ahn , Eduardo Martinez , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

We study the capture of a magnetic Skyrmion into a domain wall (DW) structure in chiral magnets and find that in the respective ground states of the DW and the Skyrmion, they repel each other. This means that an isolated magnetic Skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Sven Bjarke Gudnason , Yuki Amari , Muneto Nitta

A phenomenology of magnetic chiral damping is proposed in the context of magnetic materials lacking inversion symmetry breaking. We show that the magnetic damping tensor adopts a general form that accounts for a component linear in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 C. A. Akosa , I. M. Miron , G. Gaudin , A. Manchon

Noncollinear spin textures in ferromagnetic ultrathin films are currently the subject of renewed interest since the discovery of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). This antisymmetric exchange interaction selects a…

In this work, dynamics of chiral domain walls in long and narrow magnetic heterostructures based on non-centrosymmetric chiral magnets with bulk Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI) and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Mei Li , Bin Xi , Jie Lu , Yongjun Liu

The magnetic exchange interaction is the one of the key factors governing the basic characteristics of magnetic systems. Unlike the symmetric nature of the Heisenberg exchange interaction, the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction…

We show that the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) can lead to a tilting of the domain wall (DW) surface in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic nanotracks when DW dynamics is driven by an easy axis magnetic field or a spin polarized…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 O. Boulle , S. Rohart , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , E. Jué , I. M. Miron , S. Pizzini , J. Vogel , G. Gaudin , A. Thiaville

Symmetry breaking together with strong spin-orbit interaction give rise to many exciting phenomena within condensed matter physics. A recent example is the existence of chiral spin textures, which are observed in magnetic systems lacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Wanjun Jiang , Gong Chen , Kai Liu , Jiadong Zang , Suzanne G. E. te Velthuis , Axel Hoffmann

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is a chiral interaction that favors formation of domain walls. Recent experiments and ab initio calculations show that there are multiple ways to modify the strength of the interfacially induced…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Jeroen Mulkers , Bartel Van Waeyenberge , Milorad V. Milošević

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is an antisymmetric exchange interaction, which is responsible for the formation of topologically protected spin textures in chiral magnets. Here, by measuring the dispersion relation of the DM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Khalil Zakeri , Alberto Marmodoro , Albrecht von Faber , Sergiy Mankovsky , Hubert Ebert

Chiral domain walls in ultrathin perpendicularly magnetised layers have a N\'{e}el structure stabilised by a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) that is generated at the interface between the ferromagnet and a heavy metal. Different…

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is important for chiral domain walls (DWs) and for stabilizing magnetic skyrmions. We study the effects of introducing increasing thicknesses of Ir, from zero to 2 nm, into a Pt/Co/Ta…

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