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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

Chiral spin textures such as skyrmions have attracted considerable attention due to their nontrivial topology, chirality, stability at the nanoscale, and potential for low-power spintronic devices. The recent discovery of intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Nihad Abuawwad , Samir Lounis

Two-dimensional van der Waals magnets hosting topological magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, show promise for applications in spintronics and quantum computing. Electrical control of these topological spin textures would enable novel…

We propose a method to all-electrically control a domain-wall position in a ferromagnetic nanowire with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. The strength of this interaction can be controlled by an external electric field, which in turn…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Koji Sato , Oleg A. Tretiakov

We discuss a geometric perspective on chiral ferromagnetism. Much like gravity becomes the effect of spacetime curvature in theory of relativity, the Dzyaloshinski-Moriya interaction arises in a Heisenberg model with nontrivial spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Daniel Hill , Valeriy Slastikov , Oleg Tchernyshyov

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Cyrill B. Muratov , Valeriy V. Slastikov

We present a novel approach to understanding the extraordinary diversity of magnetic skyrmion solutions. Our approach combines a new classification scheme with efficient analytical and numerical methods. We introduce the concept of chiral…

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…

We have performed an experimental and modeling-based study of the spin-orbit torque-induced growth of magnetic stripe domains in heavy metal/ferromagnet thin-film heterostructures that possess chiral N\'eel-type domain walls due to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Jeffrey A. Brock , Daan Swinkels , Bert Koopmans , Eric E. Fullerton

The control of domain walls is central to nearly all magnetic technologies, particularly for information storage and spintronics. Creative attempts to increase storage density need to overcome volatility due to thermal fluctuations of…

The possibility of utilizing the rich spin-dependent properties of graphene has attracted great attention in pursuit of spintronics advances. The promise of high-speed and low-energy consumption devices motivates a search for layered…

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

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) that arises in the magnetic systems with broken inversion symmetry plays an essential role in topological spintronics. Here, by means of atomistic spin calculations, we study an intriguing type of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-13 Jinghua Liang , Mairbek Chshiev , Albert Fert , Hongxin Yang

Friction plays an essential role in most physical processes that we experience in our everyday life. Examples range from our ability to walk or swim, to setting boundaries of speed and fuel efficiency of moving vehicles. In magnetic…

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-12 Yu-Hao Huang , Chao-Chung Huang , Wei-Bang Liao , Tian-Yue Chen , Chi-Feng Pai

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected nanoscale spin textures exhibiting fascinating physical behaviors. Recent observations of room temperature N\'eel-type skyrmions in magnetic multilayer films are an important step towards their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Senfu Zhang , Junwei Zhang , Yan Wen , Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Xixiang Zhang

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…

The interplay of magnetic interactions in chiral multilayer films gives rise to nanoscale topological spin textures, which form attractive elements for next-generation computing. Quantifying these interactions requires several specialized,…

We discuss the influence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction in the Heizenberg spin chain model for the observables in the polarized neutron scattering experiments. We show that different choices of the parameters of DM…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 D. N. Aristov , S. V. Maleyev

In the quest for miniaturizing magnetic devices, the effects of boundaries and surfaces become increasingly important. Here we show how the recently predicted boundary-induced Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) affects the…