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Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is experimentally investigated in Pt/Co/Pt multilayer films under strain. A strong variation (from 0.1 to 0.8 mJ/m$^2$) of the DMI constant is demonstrated at $\pm 0.1\%$ in-plane uniaxial…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 N. S. Gusev , A. V. Sadovnikov , S. A. Nikitov , M. V. Sapozhnikov , O. G. Udalov

Chirality is an inherent characteristics of some objects in nature. In magnetism chiral magnetic textures can be formed in systems with broken inversion symmetry and due to an antisymmetric magnetic interaction, known as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Khalil Zakeri , Albrecht von Faber , Sergiy Mankovsky , Hubert Ebert

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…

Using first-principles calculations, we investigate the impact of hydrogenation on the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) at graphene/Co interface. We find that both the magnitude and chirality of DMI can be controlled via…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-15 Baishun Yang , Qirui Cui , Jinghua Liang , Mairbek Chshiev , Hongxin Yang

Ultrathin metallic ferromagnets on substrates with strong spin-orbit coupling can exhibit induced chiral interactions of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) form. For systems with perpendicular anisotropy, the presence of DM interactions has…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-17 Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Pablo Borys , Arne Vansteenkiste , Joo-Von Kim , Robert L. Stamps

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii Moriya Interaction (DMI) in ultrathin magnetic thin film heterostructures provides a new approach for controlling spin textures on mesoscopic length scales. Here we investigate the dependence of the…

Using first-principle calculations, we demonstrate several approaches to manipulate Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) in ultrathin magnetic films. First, we find that DMI is significantly enhanced when the ferromagnetic (FM) layer is…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-20 Hongxin Yang , Olivier Boulle , Vincent Cros , Albert Fert , Mairbek Chshiev

To stabilize the non-trivial spin textures, e.g., skyrmions or chiral domain walls in ultrathin magnetic films, an additional degree of freedom such as the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (IDMI) must be induced by the strong…

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, DMI in short, represents an antisymmetric type of magnetic interactions that favour orthogonal orientation of spins and competes with Heisenberg exchange. Being introduced to explain weak ferromagnetism in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-02 V. V. Mazurenko , Y. O. Kvashnin , A. I. Lichtenstein , M. I. Katsnelson

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) manifesting in asymmetric layered ferromagnetic films gives rise to non-colinear spin structures stabilizing magnetization configurations with nontrivial topology. In this work magnetization reversal,…

Anisotropic exchange couplings, such as the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), have played a vital role in the formation and dynamics of spin textures. This work predicts an anisotropic conduction electron spin density in metals with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Adam B. Cahaya , Alejandro O. Leon

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 studied the spin torque efficiency and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) of heterostructures that contain interface(s) of Ir and Co. The current-induced shifts of the anomalous Hall loops were used to determine the spin torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Yuto Ishikuro , Masashi Kawaguchi , Naoaki Kato , Yong-Chang Lau , Masamitsu Hayashi

Chiral spin textures at the interface between ferromagnetic and heavy nonmagnetic metals, such as Neel-type domain walls and skyrmions, have been studied intensively because of their great potential for future nanomagnetic devices. The…

Starting from the general Berry phase theory of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) we derive an expression for the linear contribution of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI). Thereby, we show analytically that at the first order in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-04 Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

Spin waves in perpendicularly-magnetized Pt/Co/AlO$_x$/Pt ultrathin films with varying Co thicknesses (0.6-1.2 nm) have been studied with Brillouin light spectroscopy in the Damon-Eshbach geometry. The measurements reveal a pronounced…

We measure and analyze the chirality of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) stabilized spin textures in multilayers of Ta/Co$_{20}$Fe$_{60}$B$_{20}$/MgO. The effective DMI is measured experimentally using domain wall motion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 G. V. Karnad , F. Freimuth , E. Martinez , R. Lo Conte , G. Gubbiotti , T. Schulz , S. Senz , B. Ocker , Y. Mokrousov , M. Kläui

Realizing sizeable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in intrinsic two-dimensional (2D) magnets without any manipulation will greatly enrich potential application of spintronics devices. The simplest and most desirable situation should…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-26 Yonglong Ga , Qirui Cui , Jinghua Liang , Dongxing Yu , Yingmei Zhu , Liming Wang , Hongxin Yang

Recent development of the magnetic material engineering led to achievement of the systems with a high interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). As a result, the formation of non-collinear magnetic soliton states or nonreciprocal…

The magnetic interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in multi-layered thin films can lead to exotic chiral spin states, of paramount importance for future spintronic technologies. Interfacial DMI is normally manifested as an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Amalio Fernández-Pacheco , Elena Vedmedenko , Fanny Ummelen , Rhodri Mansell , Dorothée Petit , Russell P. Cowburn