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As nanomagnetic devices scale to smaller sizes, spin-orbit coupling due to the broken structural inversion symmetry at interfaces becomes increasingly important. Here we study interfacial spin-orbit coupling effects in magnetic bilayers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee , M. D. Stiles

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 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

Frustrated triangular molecule magnets such as \{Cu$_3$\} are characterized by two degenerate S=1/2 ground-states with opposite chirality. Recently it has been proposed theoretically [PRL {\bf 101}, 217201 (2008)] and verified by {\it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 J. F. Nossa , M. F. Islam , C. M. Canali , M. R. Pederson

The Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya (DM) interaction that originates from relativistic spin-orbit coupling in noncentrosymmetric magnets is a source of topological spin textures. We theoretically investigate the possibility of a skyrmion crystal by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-04 Satoru Hayami , Ryota Yambe

Chiral magnets are an emerging class of topological matter harbouring localized and topologically protected vortex-like magnetic textures called skyrmions, which are currently under intense scrutiny as a new entity for information storage…

Since the early 1960's, the discovery of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) helped to explain the physical mechanisms behind certain magnetic phenomena, such as net moment in antiferromagnets, or enhanced anisotropy field from heavy…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-04 Albert Fert , Mairbek Chshiev , André Thiaville , Hongxin Yang

Chirality causes diverse phenomena in nature such as the formation of biological molecules, antimatters, non-collinear spin structures, and magnetic skyrmions. The chirality in magnetic materials is often caused by the noncollinear exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-10 Duck-Ho Kim , Sang-Cheol Yoo , Dae-Yun Kim , Byoung-Chul Min , Sug-Bong Choe

Using a general framework, interaction potentials between chiral magnetic solitons in a planar system with a tilted external magnetic field are calculated analytically in the limit of large separation. The results are compared to previous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Bruno Barton-Singer , Bernd J. Schroers

We review recent developments of formulations to calculate the Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya (DM) interaction from first principles. In particular, we focus on three approaches. The first one evaluates the energy change due to the spin twisting by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Takashi Koretsune , Toru Kikuchi , Ryotaro Arita

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) between spins is induced by spin-orbit coupling in magnetic materials lacking inversion symmetry. DMI is recognized to play a crucial role at the interface between ferromagnetic (FM) and heavy…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-31 Hongxin Yang , André Thiaville , Stanislas Rohart , Albert Fert , Mairbek Chshiev

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 develop a field theory of quantum magnets and magnetic (semi)metals, which is suitable for the analysis of their universal and topological properties. The systems of interest include collinear, coplanar and general non-coplanar magnets.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Predrag Nikolić

Chirality, an intrinsic preference for a specific handedness, is a fundamental characteristic observed in nature. In magnetism, magnetic chirality arises from the anti-symmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in competition with the…

The Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction (DMI) generates intriguing chiral magnetic objects such as magnetic skyrmions and chiral domain walls that can be used as building blocks in emerging magnetic nanodevices. To achieve better stability…

We analyze magnetic properties of monolayers and bilayers of chromium trihalides, CrI$_3$, in two different stacking configurations: AA and rhombohedral ones. Our main focus is on the corresponding Curie temperatures, hysteresis curves,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 S. Stagraczynski , P. Balaz , M. Jafari , J. Barnas , A. Dyrdal

The stabilization of chiral magnetic spin-structures in thin films is often attributed to the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Very recently, however, it has been reported that the chirality induced by the DMI can be…

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

Chiral magnetic skyrmions are topological solitons, of significant physical interest, arising in ferromagnets described by a micromagnetic energy including a chiral (Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya) interaction term. We show that for small chiral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Stephen Gustafson , Li Wang

A spin Hamiltonian, which characterizes interatomic interactions between spin moments, is highly valuable in predicting and comprehending the magnetic properties of materials. A deeper understanding of the microscopic origin of magnetic…