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Skyrmionic states in noncentrosymmetric magnets with Lifshitz invariants are investigated within the phenomenological Dzyaloshinskii model. The interaction between the chiral Skyrmions, being repulsive in a broad temperature range, changes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-20 A. A. Leonov , A. N. Bogdanov , U. K. Roessler

I consider skyrmionic states in non-centrosymmetric magnets near the ordering temperatures. I show that the interaction between the chiral skyrmions, being repulsive in a broad temperature range, changes into attraction at high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-25 Andriy O. Leonov

Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture stabilized by the protection due to their topology. In most cases they are induced by chiral interactions between atomic spins existing in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-21 Albert Fert , Nicolas Reyren , Vincent Cros

Recent years have witnessed an enormous rise in research interest in magnetic skyrmions owing to their capability to improve over contemporary spintronic devices. An overview of the various magnetic interactions responsible for the…

Mn4N thin film is one of the potential magnetic mediums for spintronic devices due to its ferrimagnetism with low magnetization, large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), thermal stability, and large domain wall velocity. A recent…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-17 Wei Zhou , Chung Ting Ma , S. Joseph Poon

A generic theory about skyrmion crystal (SkX) formation in chiral magnetic thin films and its fascinating thermodynamic behaviours is presented. A chiral magnetic film can have many metastable states with an arbitrary skyrmion density up to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 X. C. Hu , H. T. Wu , X. R. Wang

Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions have interesting static and transport properties that make them candidates for future spintronic devices. Control and manipulation of the size and behavior of skyrmions is thus of crucial importance. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Steven S. -L. Zhang , C. Phatak , A. K. Petford-Long , O. G. Heinonen

Despite the huge recent interest towards chiral magnetism related to the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction (iDMI) in layered systems, there is a lack of experimental data on the effect of iDMI on the spin waves eigenmodes of…

Research on magnetic systems with broken inversion symmetry has been stimulated by the experimental proof of particle-like configurations known as skyrmions, whose non-trivial topological properties make them ideal candidates for spintronic…

We investigate the effect of the Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction (DMI) on magnetic domain nucleation in a ferromagnetic thin film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. We propose an extended droplet model to determine the nucleation…

Topological magnetic textures, characterized by integer topological charge $S$, are potential candidates in future magnetic logic and memory devices, due to their smaller size and expected low threshold current density for their motion. An…

This paper investigates the existence and qualitative properties of minimizers for a class of nonlocal micromagnetic energy functionals defined on bounded domains. The considered energy functional consists of a symmetric exchange…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Giovanni Di Fratta , Rossella Giorgio , Luca Lombardini

We explore the interplay between topology and eigenmodes by changing the stabilizing mechanism of skyrmion lattices (skX). We focus on two prototypical ultrathin films hosting an hexagonal (Pd/Fe/Ir(111)) and a square (Fe/Ir(111)) skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Louise Desplat , Bertrand Dupé

Extended numerical simulations enable to ascertain the diffusive behavior at finite temperatures of chiral walls and skyrmions in ultra-thin model Co layers exhibiting symmetric - Heisenberg - as well as antisymmetric -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Jacques Miltat , Stanislas Rohart , André Thiaville

Magnetic skyrmions are localized, topologically protected spin-structures that have been proposed for storing or processing information due to their intriguing dynamical and transport properties. Important in terms of applications is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-07 B. Dupé , G. Bihlmayer , S. Blügel , S. Heinze

We show that the spin-orbit torque induced magnetization switching in nanomagnets presenting Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DMI) interaction is governed by a chiral domain nucleation at the edges. The nucleation is induced by the DMI and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-04 N. Mikuszeit , O. Boulle , I. M. Miron , K. Garello , P. Gambardella , G. Gaudin , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu

Magnetic skyrmions are quasiparticle configurations in a magnetic film that can act as information carrying bits for ultrasmall, all-electronic nonvolatile memory. The skyrmions can be nucleated and driven by spin-orbit torque from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Hamed Vakili , Yunkun Xie , Avik W. Ghosh

Recent experiments have reported on controlled nucleation of individual skyrmions in chiral magnets. Here we show that in magnetic ultra-thin films with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, single skyrmions of different radii can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-14 Sebastian A. Diaz , Daniel P. Arovas

Antiferromagnetic materials present us with rich and exciting physics, which we can exploit to open new avenues in spintronic device applications. We explore perpendicularly magnetized exchange biased systems of Pt/Co/IrMn and Pt/Co/FeMn,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Risalat A. Khan , Hans T. Nembach , Mannan Ali , Justin M. Shaw , Christopher H. Marrows , Thomas A. Moore

The asymptotic behavior of the micromagnetic free energy governing a ferromagnetic film is studied as its thickness gets smaller and smaller compared to its cross section. Here the static Maxwell equations are treated as a Murat's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Carolin Kreisbeck