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We theoretically show that moderate interaction between electrons confined to move in a plane and localized magnetic moments leads to formation of a noncoplanar magnetic state. The state is similar to the skyrmion crystal recently observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 D. Solenov , D. Mozyrsky , I. Martin

Topological magnetic excitations rooted in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) are promising information carriers for next-generation memory and spintronic devices. The recently discovered two-dimensional (2D) magnets provide fertile…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-23 Shunhong Zhang , Xiaoyin Li , Huisheng Zhang , Ping Cui , Xiaohong Xu , Zhenyu Zhang

We study the continuum limit of two-dimensional chiral magnets in which Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is due to the interplay between a smooth magnetic texture and spin-orbit coupling. The resulting free-energy density of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Doru Sticlet , Frédéric Piéchon

Chiral magnetism, wherein there is a preferred sense of rotation of the magnetization, has become a key aspect for future spintronic applications. It determines the chiral nature of magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, domain walls or spin…

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

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

The discovery of spontaneous magnetism in van der Waal (vdW) magnetic monolayers has opened up an unprecedented platform for investigating magnetism in purely two-dimensional systems. Recently, it has been shown that the magnetic properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Eliot Heinrich , Xin Li , Benedetta Flebus

Magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions are topologically protected quasiparticles exhibiting a whirling spin texture in real space. Antiskyrmions offer some advantages over skyrmions as they are expected to have higher stability and can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-23 Kai Huang , Edward Schwartz , Ding-Fu Shao , Alexey A. Kovalev , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Chirality plays a major role in nature, from particle physics to DNA, and its control is much sought-after due to the scientific and technological opportunities it unlocks. For magnetic materials, chiral interactions between spins promote…

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), which is essential for the stabilization of topologically non-trivial chiral magnetic textures such as skyrmions, is particularly strong in heterostructures of ultra-thin magnetic materials and…

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Etienne van Walsem , Rembert A. Duine , Marcos H. D. Guimarães

The recent discovery of ferromagnetism in 2D van der Waals (vdw) crystals has generated widespread interest, owing to their potential for fundamental and applied research. Advancing the understanding and applications of vdw magnets requires…

Ultrathin metallic ferromagnets on substrates with strong spin-orbit coupling can exhibit induced chiral interactions of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) form. For systems with perpendicular anisotropy, the presence of DM interactions has…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-17 Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Pablo Borys , Arne Vansteenkiste , Joo-Von Kim , Robert L. Stamps

We explore the emergence of chiral magnetism in one-dimensional monatomic Mn, Fe, and Co chains deposited at the Pt(664) step-edge carrying out an ab-initio study based on density functional theory (DFT). The results are analyzed employing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Benedikt Schweflinghaus , Bernd Zimmermann , Marcus Heide , Gustav Bihlmayer , Stefan Blügel

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 in 2D chiral magnets are in general stabilized by a combination of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and external magnetic field. Here, we show that skyrmions can also be stabilized in twisted moir\'e superlattices in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-21 Muhammad Akram , Onur Erten

Since the discovery of ferromagnetic two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) crystals, significant interest on such 2D magnets has emerged, inspired by their appealing properties and integration with other 2D family for unique…

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), being one of the origins of chiral magnetism, is currently attracting considerable attention in the research community focusing on applied magnetism and spintronics. For future applications, an…

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in magnetic objects is of enormous interest, because it generates a built-in chirality of magnetic domain walls (DWs) and topologically-protected skyrmions for efficient motion driven by spin-orbit…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-15 Duck-Ho Kim , Sang-Cheol Yoo , Dae-Yun Kim , Byoung-Chul Min , Sug-Bong Choe

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