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Proposals for novel spin-orbitronic logic1 and memory devices2 are often predicated on assumptions as to how materials with large spin-orbit coupling interact with ferromagnets when in contact. Such interactions give rise to a host of novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Hans T. Nembach , Justin M. Shaw , Mathias Weiler , Emilie Jué , Thomas J. Silva

Magnetic skyrmions have been proposed as promising candidates for storing information due to their high stability and easy manipulation by spin-polarized currents. Here, we study how these properties are influenced by the interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Tim Matthies , Levente Rózsa , Roland Wiesendanger , Elena Y. Vedmedenko

The occurrence of a noncollinear magnetic structure at a Mn monolayer grown epitaxially on Fe(100) is predicted theoretically, using spinor density-functional theory, and observed experimentally, using x-ray magnetic circular dichroism…

Ferroelectric properties in magnetic fields of varying magnitude and direction have been investigated for a triangular-lattice helimagnet CuFe1-xGaxO2 (x=0.035). The magnetoelectric phase diagrams were deduced for magnetic fields along…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Seki , H. Murakawa , Y. Onose , Y. Tokura

Competing magnetic anisotropies in chiral crystals with Dzyaloshinskii Moriya exchange interactions can give rise to non-trivial chiral topological magnetisation configurations with new and interesting properties. One such configuration is…

Chiral magnetic textures are key for the development of modern spintronic devices. In multilayered thin films, these are typically stabilized via the interfacial intralayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Additionally, it has been…

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

Topologically protected magnetic structures such as skyrmions and domain walls (DWs) have drawn a great deal of attention recently due to their thermal stability and potential for manipulation by spin current, which is the result of chiral…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-10 Derek Lau , Vignesh Sundar , Jian-Gang Zhu , Vincent Sokalski

The dynamics of domain walls in ultrathin ferromagnetic strips with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is studied from both numerical and analytical micromagnetics. The influence of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-20 L. Sánchez-Tejerina , Ó. Alejos , E. Martínez , J. M. Muñoz

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) causes domain walls in perpendicular magnetized systems to adopt a homochiral configuration by winding in the same direction for both Up-Down and Down-Up walls. The topology of these domain walls…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-04 G. V. Karnad , E. Martinez , M. Voto , T. Schulz , B. Ocker , D. Ravelosona , M. Kläui

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is the key ingredient of chiral spintronic phenomena and the emerging technologies based on such phenomena. A nonzero DMI usually occurs at magnetic interfaces or within non-centrosymmetric single…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-06 Lijun Zhu , David Lujan , Xiaoqin Li

The finite-temperature magnetism of a monolayer on a bcc (110) surface was examined using a model Hamiltonian containing ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic exchange interactions, Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interactions and easy-axis on-site…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-12 L. Rózsa , L. Szunyogh , L. Udvardi

In planar chiral magnets, the competition of the positive definite Heisenberg exchange and Zeeman energies with the indefinite Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) energy allows for the possibility of negative energy ground states, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Bernd Schroers , Martin Speight , Thomas Winyard

We investigate the magnetocaloric effect obtained by the rotation of a magnetic field applied to an exchange-coupled multilayer system composed of two different ferromagnetic (FM) materials. We specifically consider a system in which the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-12 Vittorio Basso , Carlo P. Sasso , Martino LoBue , Karl G. Sandeman

We theoretically investigate the optical activity of three dimensional Dirac semimetals (DSMs) using circular dichroism (CD). We show that DSMs in the presence of a magnetic field in any one of the mirror-symmetric planes of the materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Abhirup Roy Karmakar , S. Nandy , G. P. Das , Kush Saha

Atomistic spin models have found enormous success in addressing the properties of magnetic materials, grounded on the identification of the relevant underlying magnetic interactions. The huge development in the field of magnetic skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Sascha Brinker , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

A spin model including magnetic anisotropy terms and Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interactions is studied for the case of a ferromagnetic monolayer with C2v symmetry like Fe/W(110). Using the quasiclassical stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-02 L. Rózsa , L. Udvardi , L. Szunyogh

We show that the coupling between two ferromagnetic layers separated by a nonmagnetic spacer can be used to control the depinning of domain walls and induce unidirectional domain wall propagation. We investigated CoFeB/Ti/CoFeB trilayers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Mark C. H. de Jong , Can Onur Avci , Aleš Hrabec , Pietro Gambardella

We characterize asymmetric growth of magnetic bubble domains in perpendicularly magnetized Co/Ni multi-layers grown on Pt$_x$Ir$_{1-x}$ seedlayers by application of perpendicular and in-plane magnetic fields. Using a refined model of domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Derek Lau , James Price Pellegren , Hans Nembach , Justin Shaw , Vincent Sokalski

The two-dimensional (2D) Cu(CrSe$_2$)$_2$ monolayer stands out for its combined ferromagnetic (FM), ferroelectric (FE), and metallic properties, marking itself as a prominent 2D multiferroic metal. This work studies those properties and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-03 Ke Yang , Yuxuan Zhou , Yaozhenghang Ma , Hua Wu