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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

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

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable spin swirls with particle-like character and potentially suitable for the design of high-density information bits. While most known skyrmion systems arise in noncentrosymmetric systems with…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin structure, and their existence in ferromagnetically coupled multilayers has been reported with disordered arrangement. In these multilayers, the heavy metal spacing layers provide an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-30 Yong Li , Qiyuan Feng , Sihua Li , Ke Huang , Weiliang Gan , Haibiao Zhou , Xiangjun Jin , Xiao Renshaw Wang , Fusheng Ma , Qingyou Lu , Wen Siang Lew

We analyze the nature of the modulated magnetic states in a micromagnetic model for the monoaxial chiral magnet MnNb$_3$S$_6$ for which the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and the dipolar interaction compete evenly. We show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-28 S. A. Osorio , V. Laliena , J. Campo , S. Bustingorry

Using atomistic simulations, we show that new types of skyrmion states called skyrmion molecular crystals and skyrmion superlattices can be realized on triangular substrates when there are two or three skyrmions per substrate minimum. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas , C. Reichhardt

We theoretically investigate field-induced switching of magnetic topology in a nanodisk-shaped sample of noncentrosymmetric dipolar magnet in which the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction that stabilizes an antiskyrmion with $N_{\rm sk}$=+1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Tatsuki Muto , Masahito Mochizuki

We demonstrate a fast numerical method of theoretical studies of skyrmion lattice or spiral order in magnetic materials with Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction. The method is based on the Fourier expansion of the magnetization combined with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-01 Eugene Balkind , Aldo Isidori , Matthias Eschrig

Artificial spin ices are metamaterials that can host several ferromagnetic resonances as well as spin waves. As the field advances towards the creation of three-dimensional geometries, a trilayer square artificial spin ice has been already…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 V. Vanga , G. Alatteili , E. Iacocca

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in multilayers of heavy metal and ferromagnetic metals enables the stabilization of novel chiral spin structures such as skyrmions. Magnetic insulators, on the other hand can exhibit…

The recent discovery of tunable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in layered magnetic materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy makes them promising candidates for stabilization and manipulation of skyrmions at elevated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-17 Rick Keesman , A. O. Leonov , P. van Dieten , Stefan Buhrandt , G. T. Barkema , Lars Fritz , R. A. Duine

We investigate the instability toward a skyrmion crystal under an in-plane magnetic field in centrosymmetric tetragonal magnets. By performing the simulated annealing for a spin model on the square lattice, we find that the interplay among…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-06 Satoru Hayami

Formation of the triangular skyrmion-lattice is found in a tetragonal polar magnet VOSe$_2$O$_5$. By magnetization and small-angle neutron scattering measurements on the single crystals, we identify a cycloidal spin state at zero field and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-13 Takashi Kurumaji , Taro Nakajima , Victor Ukleev , Artem Feoktystov , Taka-hisa Arima , Kazuhisa Kakurai , Yoshinori Tokura

Using symmetry analysis and density functional theory calculations, we uncover the nature of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$ monolayer. We show that while such an interaction might result in small distortion of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-12 Slimane Laref , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Aurelien Manchon

Magnetic interactions underpin a plethora of magnetic states of matter, hence playing a central role both in fundamental physics and for future spintronic and quantum computation devices. The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, being chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Sascha Brinker , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

The experimental realization of magnetic skyrmions in centrosymmetric materials has been driven by theoretical understanding of how a delicate balance of anisotropy and frustration can stabilize topological spin structures in applied…

Facing the ever-growing demand for data storage will most probably require a new paradigm. Magnetic skyrmions are anticipated to solve this issue as they are arguably the smallest spin textures in magnetic thin films in nature. We designed…

Magnetic skyrmions are textures behaving as quasiparticles which are topologically different from other states. Their discovery in systems with broken inversion symmetry sparked the search for materials containing such magnetic phase at…

We propose an alternative route to stabilize magnetic skyrmion textures which does not require Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction, magnetic anisotropy, or an external Zeeman field. Instead, it solely relies on the emergence of flux in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Yun-Peng Huang , Panagiotis Kotetes

Multiple-$Q$ magnetic states often induce nontrivial topological spin textures, such as a skyrmion and a hedgehog. We theoretically investigate yet another multiple-$Q$ state with topological defects, a meron-antimeron crystal (MAX),…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-29 Satoru Hayami , Ryota Yambe