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Magnetic interactions underpin a plethora of magnetic states of matter, hence playing a central role both in fundamental physics and for future spintronic and quantum computation devices. The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, being chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Sascha Brinker , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

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

Magnetic helices and skyrmions in noncentrosymmetric magnets are representative examples of chiral spin textures in solids. Their spin swirling direction, often termed as the magnetic helicity and defined as either left-handed or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-07 K. Karube , K. Shibata , J. S. White , T. Koretsune , X. Z. Yu , Y. Tokunaga , H. M. Rønnow , R. Arita , T. Arima , Y. Tokura , Y. Taguchi

The interface between a ferromagnet (FM) or antiferromagnet (AFM) and a heavy metal (HM) results in an antisymmetric exchange interaction known as the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI) which favors non-collinear spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 Md. Rakibul Karim Akanda , In Jun Park , Roger K. Lake

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

We present the results of a systematic micromagnetic study of the effect of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) on the spin wave band structure of two one-dimensional magnonic crystals (MCs), both with the same periodicity p=300 nm,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 R. Silvania , M. Kuepferling , S. Tacchi , G. Carlotti

Electrical switching of magnetization is central to spintronics. Despite the enormous efforts on the spin torques and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) effects, some fundamental physics for electrical switching of magnetization is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-26 Qianbiao Liu , Long Liu , Guozhong Xing , Lijun Zhu

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 Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) has attracted considerable recent attention owing to the intriguing physics behind and the fundamental role it played in stabilizing magnetic solitons, such as magnetic skyrmions and chiral domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Zhenyu Wang , Beining Zhang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

The ability to engineer the interactions in assemblies of nanoscale magnets is central to the development of artificial spin systems and spintronic technologies. Following the emergence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Aleš Hrabec , Zhaochu Luo , Laura J. Heyderman , Pietro Gambardella

Chiral magnetism, wherein there is a preferred sense of rotation of the magnetization, has become a key aspect for future spintronic applications. It determines the chiral nature of magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, domain walls or spin…

Despite a decade of research, the precise mechanisms occurring at interfaces underlying the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), and thus the possibility of fine-tuning it, are not yet fully identified. In this study, we investigate the…

Structural symmetry breaking in magnetic materials is responsible for a variety of outstanding physical phenomena. Examples range from the existence of multiferroics, to current induced spin orbit torques (SOT) and the formation of…

Recently, great effort has been devoted to the search for two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetic materials with inherent strong Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya interaction (DMI). Here, through a first-principles approach, we systematically investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-14 Zhong Shen , Changsheng Song , Yufei Xue , Zebin Wu , Jiqing Wang , Zhicheng Zhong

As a fundamental magnetic parameter, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), has gained a great deal of attention in the last two decades due to its critical role in formation of magnetic skyrmions. Recent discoveries of two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-18 Qirui Cui , Yingmei Zhu , Yonglong Ga , Jinghua Liang , Peng Li , Dongxing Yu , Ping Cui , Hongxin Yang

We study a microscopic derivation and the properties of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) between local magnetic moments in ferromagnet/heavy metal heterostructures. First, we derive DMI by Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-18 Taira Shibuya , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Masao Ogata

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

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,…

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