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The presence of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) may lead to the appearance of N\'eel skyrmions in ferromagnetic films. These topologically protected structures, whose diameter is as small as a few nanometers, can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Mattia Bassotti , Raffaele Silvani , Giovanni Carlotti

Skyrmions can be stabilized in magnetic systems with broken inversion symmetry and chiral interactions, such as Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI). Further, compensation of magnetic moments in ferrimagnetic materials can significantly…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-05 Y. Quessab , J. -W. Xu , C. T. Ma , W. Zhou , G. A. Riley , J. M. Shaw , H. T. Nembach , S. J. Poon , A. D. Kent

Magnetic skyrmions have the potential to provide solutions for low-power, high-density data storage and processing. One of the major challenges in developing skyrmion-based devices is the skyrmions' magnetic stability in confined…

Electric control of magnetism is a prerequisite for efficient and low power spintronic devices. More specifically, in heavy metal/ ferromagnet/ insulator heterostructures, voltage gating has been shown to locally and dynamically tune…

We consider a twisted magnetic bilayer subject to the perpendicular electric field. The interplay of induced Dzyaloshinskii - Moriya interaction and spatially varying moir\'e exchange potential results in complex non-collinear magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Polina Shaban , Igor Lobanov , Valerii Uzdin , Ivan Iorsh

Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates for the next generation of spintronic devices due to their small size and topologically protected structure. One challenge for using these magnetic states in applications lies on controlling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 J. Brandão , D. A. Dugato , R. L. Seeger , J. C. Denardin , T. J. A. Mori , J. C. Cezar

We study skyrmions in magnetic thin films with structural inversion asymmetry perpendicular to the film plane. We determine the magnetization texture of a single skyrmion and its dependence on the strength of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 M. E. Knoester , Jairo Sinova , R. A. Duine

We study formation of a periodical structure of quasiparticle-like magnetic configurations with non-trivial topological charge, known as a magnetic skyrmion phase, on a frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 M. Mohylna , M. Žukovič

A combined approach using first-principles calculations and spin dynamics simulations is applied to study Ni/Ir$_{n}$/Pt(111) ($n=0,1,2$) films. The lowest-energy states are predicted to be spin-spirals but with a minute (of the order of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-23 P. C. Carvalho , I. P. Miranda , A. B. Klautau , A. Bergman , H. M. Petrilli

The search for chiral magnetic textures in systems lacking spatial inversion symmetry has attracted a massive amount of interest in the recent years with the real space observation of novel exotic magnetic phases such as skyrmions lattices,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-06 Abderrezak Belabbes , Gustav Bihlmayer , Stefan Blügel , Aurelien Manchon

In a broad range of applied magnetic fields and material parameters isolated magnetic skyrmions condense into skyrmion lattices. While the geometry of isolated skyrmions and their lattice counterparts strongly depend on field and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 A. Siemens , Y. Zhang , J. Hagemeister , E. Y. Vedmedenko , R. Wiesendanger

We consider the three-dimensional micromagnetic model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in a thin-film regime. We prove the Gamma-convergence of the micromagnetic energy in the considered regime, for which the Gamma-limit energy is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-31 François L'Official

We demonstrate the stray-field-mediated skyrmion stabilizing capabilities of ultrathin exchange-decoupled antisymmetric ferromagnetic bilayers based on conventional transition metal materials. Using an asymptotically exact micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Anne Bernand-Mantel , Valeriy V. Slastikov , Cyrill B. Muratov

By introducing biquadratic together with usual bilinear ferromagnetic nearest neighbor exchange interaction in a square lattice, we find that the energy of the spin-wave mode is minimized at a finite wavevector for a vanishingly small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Sandip Bera , Sudhansu S. Mandal

We study the magnetic dynamics of magnetoelectric antiferromagnetic thin films, where an unconventional boundary ferromagnetism coexists with the bulk N\'{e}el phase below the N\'{e}el temperature. The spin exchange between the two order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ricardo Zarzuela , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Recent studies have shown that material structures, which lack structural inversion symmetry and have high spin-orbit coupling can exhibit chiral magnetic textures and skyrmions which could be a key component for next generation storage…

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is a chiral interaction that favors formation of domain walls. Recent experiments and ab initio calculations show that there are multiple ways to modify the strength of the interfacially induced…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Jeroen Mulkers , Bartel Van Waeyenberge , Milorad V. Milošević

Recently a significant interest in ferromagnetic curved thin films has appeared. In particular, thin spherical shells are currently of great interest due to their capability to support skyrmion solutions which can be stabilized by curvature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Giovanni Di Fratta

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in the ferromagnetic/heavy metal ultra-thin film structures , has attracted a lot of attention thanks to its capability to stabilize Neel-type domain walls (DWs) and magnetic skyrmions…

We present an analysis of edge domain walls in exchange-biased ferromagnetic films appearing as a result of a competition between the stray field at the film edges and the exchange bias field in the bulk. We introduce an effective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Ross G. Lund , Cyrill B. Muratov , Valeriy V. Slastikov