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Magnetic skyrmions are chiral nanoscale spin textures which are usually induced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Recently, magnetic skyrmions have been observed in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnetic materials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-07 Kai Huang , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin configurations in materials with chiral Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), that are potentially useful for storing or processing information. To date, DMI has been found in few bulk materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Dusan Stosic , Jeroen Mulkers , Bartel Van Waeyenberge , Teresa Ludermir , Milorad V. Milošević

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

Skyrmions in noncentrosymmetric materials are believed to occur due to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. By contrast, the skyrmion formation mechanism in centrosymmetric materials remains elusive. Here, we reveal the intrinsic…

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), which only exists in noncentrosymmetric systems, is responsible for the formation of exotic chiral magnetic states. The absence of DMI in most two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials is due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-06 Jinghua Liang , Weiwei Wang , Haifeng Du , Ali Hallal , Karin Garcia , Mairbek Chshiev , Albert Fert , Hongxin Yang

We have performed micromagnetic simulations to study the formation of skyrmions in ferromagnetic elements with different shapes having perpendicular anisotropy. The strength of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (D) and uniaxial anisotropy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-06 Aroop Kumar Behera , Swapna Sindhu Mishra , Sougata Mallick , Braj Bhusan Singh , Subhankar Bedanta

We study the formation and growth of a skyrmion crystal (SkX) phase in a frustrated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a triangular lattice with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in the presence of an external magnetic field. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-14 M. Mohylna , M. Žukovič

Magnetic skyrmions have been the subject of extensive experimental studies in ferromagnetic thin films and multilayers, revealing a diversity in their size, stability and internal structure. While the orthodox skyrmion theory focuses on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-22 Anne Bernand-Mantel , Cyrill B. Muratov , Thilo M. Simon

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is the primary mechanism for realizing real-space chiral spin textures, which are regarded as key components for the next-generation spintronics. However, DMI arises from a perturbation term of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-12 Fan Zhang , Xueao Li , Yabei Wu , Xiaolong Wang , Jijun Zhao , Weiwei Gao

The promise of high-density and low-energy-consumption devices motivates the search for layered structures that stabilize chiral spin textures such as topologically protected skyrmions. At the same time, layered structures provide a new…

The evolution of chiral spin structures is studied in ferrimagnet Ta/Ir/Fe/GdFeCo/Pt multilayers as a function of temperature using scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis (SEMPA). The GdFeCo ferrimagnet exhibits pure…

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) plays a crucial role in stabilizing the exotic topologically stable skyrmion spin textures in the noncentrosymmetric crystals. The recent discovery of biskyrmions and skyrmions in the globally…

The experimental realization of magnetic skyrmions in centrosymmetric materials has been driven by theoretical understanding of how a delicate balance of anisotropy and frustration can stabilize topological spin structures in applied…

Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture stabilized by the protection due to their topology. In most cases they are induced by chiral interactions between atomic spins existing in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-21 Albert Fert , Nicolas Reyren , Vincent Cros

Rare earth Fe B permanent magnets are usually used because of their excellent magnetic performance at room temperature. The high price of these elements pushes some researchers to find new alternatives. From rare earth elements cerium (Ce)…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-02 Mouad Fattouhi , Moulay Youssef El Hafidi , Mohamed El Hafidi

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI) is attracting great interests for spintronics. An iDMI constant larger than 3 mJ/m^2 is expected to minimize the size of skyrmions and to optimize the DW dynamics. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Anni Cao , Runze Chen , Xueying Zhang , Xinran Wang , Shiyang Lu , Shishen Yan , Bert Koopmans , Weisheng Zhao

The Dzyaloshinskii Moriya Interaction (DMI) has laid the foundation for many novel chiral structures such as Skyrmions. In most of the studies so far, the DMI is present in the whole of the magnetic layer. Here, we report our investigations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Durgesh Kumar , Rachid Sbiaa , Pinaki Sengupta , S. N. Piramanayagam

We show that stable skyrmions with diameters of a few nanometers can emerge in atomic Pd/Fe bilayers on the Rh(111) surface. Based on density functional theory we calculate the exchange and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction as well as…

Motivated by experimental findings in [ 1 ] and [ 2 ], we find an elliptical skyrmion can be nucleated in a material with a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) that supports antiskyrmions. The DMI favors the elongation of the skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Daniel Capic

The antisymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) plays a decisive role for the stabilization and control of chirality of skyrmion textures in various magnetic systems exhibiting a noncentrosymmetric crystal structure. A less…