Related papers: Surface monolayers and magnetic field
The magnetic structure of a Cr monolayer on a W(110) substrate is investigated by means of first-principles calculations based on the noncollinear spin density functional theory (DFT). As magnetic ground state we find a long-period…
Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) has long been observed in normal metal/ferromagnetic multilayers, enabling the formation of chiral domain walls, skyrmions and other 2D antisymmetric spin textures confined within a single…
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…
Recent advances in nanofabrication make it possible to produce multilayer nanostructures composed of ultrathin film materials with thickness down to a few monolayers of atoms and lateral extent of several tens of nanometers. At these…
The Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (IL-DMI) chirally couples spins in different ferromagnetic layers of multilayer heterostructures. So far, samples with IL-DMI have been investigated utilizing magnetometry and…
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…
Magnets with broken local inversion symmetries are interesting candidates for chiral magnetic textures such as skyrmions and spin spirals. The property of these magnets is that each subsequent layer can possess a different…
The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) has been shown to stabilize homochiral N\'eel-type domain walls in thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and as a result permit them to be propagated by a spin Hall torque.…
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…
We discuss theoretically a ferromagnetic monolayer with an interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI) and a small axial anisotropy. It is shown that the system has a long-period cycloid magnetic order slightly distorted by the…
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…
The orientation of a chiral magnetic domain wall in a racetrack determines its dynamical properties. In equilibrium, magnetic domain walls are expected to be oriented perpendicular to the stripe axis. We demonstrate the appearance of a…
We report on the occurrence of strong interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) between an in-plane magnetized Co layer and a perpendicularly magnetized TbFe layer through a Pt spacer. The DMI causes a chiral coupling that favors…
Antiferromagnetic materials present us with rich and exciting physics, which we can exploit to open new avenues in spintronic device applications. We explore perpendicularly magnetized exchange biased systems of Pt/Co/IrMn and Pt/Co/FeMn,…
Antiferromagnets are normally thought of as materials with compensated magnetic sublattices. This adds to their technological advantages but complicates readout of the antiferromagnetic state. We demonstrate theoretically the existence of a…
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…
The magnetic properties of (111)-oriented Rh/Co/Pt and Pd/Co/Pt multilayers are investigated by first-principles calculations. We focus on the interlayer exchange coupling, and identify thicknesses and composition where a typical…
The enhancement of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) in magnetic multilayers results in the stabilization of topological spin textures like chiral domain walls and skyrmions. Here we report on the evaluation of…
We study Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) appearing at the interface of a nonmagnetic/noncollinear-antiferromagnetic bilayer. DMI is an antisymmetric exchange interaction between neighboring magnetic spins, arising in the absence of…
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…