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Recent advances in the understanding of spin orbital effects in ultrathin magnetic heterostructures have opened new paradigms to control magnetic moments electrically. The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is said to play a key role…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jacob Torrejon , Junyeon Kim , Jaivardhan Sinha , Seiji Mitani , Masamitsu Hayashi , Michihiko Yamanouchi , Hideo Ohno

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Can Onur Avci , Charles-Henri Lambert , Giacomo Sala , Pietro Gambardella

We study the effect of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) on current-induced magnetic switching of a perpendicularly magnetized heavy-metal/ferromagnet/oxide trilayer both experimentally and through micromagnetic simulations. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 N. Perez , E. Martinez , L. Torres , S. -H. Woo , S. Emori , G. S. D. Beach

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

Under the correct conditions, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI) can lead to topologically protected spin textures such as skyrmions. The application of DMI for spin-based computation and memory technologies is promising and requires…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-02 Javier F. Pulecio , Aleš Hrabec , Katharina Zeissler , Yimei Zhu , Christopher H. Marrows

Magnetic domain-walls (DWs) with a preferred chirality exhibit very efficient current-driven motion. Since structural inversion asymmetry (SIA) is required for their stability, the observation of chiral domain walls in highly symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Jeroen H. Franken , Mark Herps , Henk J. M. Swagten , Bert Koopmans

Magnetic interactions have long served as the most robust and widely used approach for realizing nonreciprocity, with an externally applied magnetic field breaking time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and chiral photon-magnon interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Jiguang Yao , Ying Yang , Chenyang Lu , Lihua Zhong , Xiaolong Fan , Desheng Xue , C. -M. Hu

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…

Magnetic textures can be manipulated by electric currents via the mechanisms of spin-transfer and spin-orbit-torques. We review how these torques can be exploited to create chiral magnetic textures in magnets with broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Jan Masell , Karin Everschor-Sitte

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-24 Hongying Jia , Bernd Zimmermann , Stefan Blügel

Chiral magnetic insulators manifest novel phases of matter where the sense of rotation of the magnetization is associated with exotic transport phenomena. Effective control of such phases and their dynamical evolution points to the search…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-24 Paula Mellado , Kevin Hofhuis , Ignacio Tapia , Andres Concha

Chirality in condensed matter is now a topic of the utmost importance because of its significant role in the understanding and mastering of a large variety of new fundamental physicals mechanisms. Versatile experimental approaches, capable…

The establishment of chiral coupling in thin magnetic films with inhomogeneous anisotropy has led to the development of artificial systems of fundamental and technological interest. The chiral coupling itself is enabled by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Zhentao Liu , Zhaochu Luo , Stanislas Rohart , Laura J. Heyderman , Pietro Gambardella , Aleš Hrabec

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

We investigate long-range chiral magnetic interactions among adatoms mediated by surface states spin-splitted by spin-orbit coupling. Using the Rashba model, the tensor of exchange interactions is extracted wherein a pseudo-dipolar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Juba Bouaziz , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Abdelhamid Ziane , Mouloud Benakki , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis

The dynamics of magnetic skyrmion driven by spin-polarized current is theoretically studied in the chiral ferromagnetic film with spatially modulated Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Three cases including linear, sinusoidal, and periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Liping Zhou , Ren Qin , Ya-qing Zheng , Yong Wang

The antisymmetric interlayer exchange interaction, i.e., interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (IL-DMI) has attracted significant interest since this long-range chiral spin interaction provides a new dimension for controlling spin…

This paper investigates the relationship among interlayer exchange coupling (IEC), Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), and multilevel magnetization switching within a Co/Pt/Co heterostructure, where varying Pt thicknesses enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Krzysztof Grochot , Piotr Ogrodnik , Jakub Mojsiejuk , Piotr Mazalski , Urszula Guzowska , Witold Skowroński , Tomasz Stobiecki

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

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,…