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The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), which originates from spin-orbit coupling and relies on broken inversion symmetry, is recognized as a key ingredient in forming magnetic skyrmions. However, most 2D magnets exhibit inversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-27 Soumyajyoti Haldar , Moritz A. Goerzen , Stefan Heinze , Dongzhe Li

This paper studies the optimization of the lowest eigenvalue of the magnetic Steklov problem on planar domains. In the bounded domain setting and for magnetic fields of moderate strengths, we prove that among all simply-connected smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Ayman Kachmar , Vladimir Lotoreichik

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

Thin films of ferrimagnetic Mn$_4$N are candidate materials to host magnetic skyrmions that have demonstrated thermal stability up to 450$^\circ$C. However, there are no experimental reports observing skyrmions in this system. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Chung T. Ma , Timothy Q. Hartnett , Wei Zhou , Prasanna V. Balachandran , S. Joseph Poon

Stabilization of skyrmions in a magnetic material without the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange interaction requires using of an inhomogeneous magnetic field, such as a demagnetization field or an Oersted field. To control and tune the local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Julia Kharlan , Mateusz Zelent , Konstantin Guslienko , Vladimir O. Golub , Jaroslaw W. Klos

Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (IF-DMI) leads to non-collinear spin configurations within the magnetic layers of multilayer heterostructures, while its interlayer counterpart (IL-DMI) minimizes chiral states between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Mikhail Kostylev

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

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

We show that skyrmions on the surface of a magnetic topological insulator may experience an attractive interaction that leads to the formation of a skyrmion-skyrmion bound state. This is in contrast to the case of skyrmions in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Kunal L. Tiwari , J. Lavoie , T. Pereg-Barnea , W. A. Coish

Magnetic skyrmions $-$ localized chiral spin structures $-$ show great promise for spintronic applications. The recent discovery of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials opened new opportunities for exploring such topological spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-30 Dongzhe Li , Soumyajyoti Haldar , Stefan Heinze

We study the structure of an axially symmetric magnetic skyrmion in a ferromagnet with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We examine the regime of large skyrmions and we identify rigorously the critical value of the dimensionless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Stavros Komineas , Christof Melcher , Stephanos Venakides

Magnetic skyrmions are promising spin textures for building next-generation magnetic memories and spintronic devices. Nevertheless, one of the major challenges in realizing skyrmion-based devices is the stabilization of ordered arrays of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-02 E. Iroulart , H. D. Rosales

We diagonalize the quantum two-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) by applying the variational quantum eigensolver, running on a quantum-computer simulator, which turns out to be a more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Matej Komelj , Vinko Sršan , Kristina Žužek , Sašo Šturm

In antiferromagnetic (AFM) thin films, broken inversion symmetry or coupling to adjacent heavy metals can induce Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions. Knowledge of the DM parameters is essential for understanding and designing exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-14 Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Ivan A. Ado , Rembert A. Duine , Mikhail Titov , Arne Brataas

We perform a stochastic-homogenization analysis for composite materials exhibiting a random microstructure. Under the assumptions of stationarity and ergodicity, we characterize the Gamma-limit of a micromagnetic energy functional defined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Elisa Davoli , Lorenza D'Elia , Jonas Ingmanns

We study minimizers $\boldsymbol{m}\colon \mathbb R^2\to\mathbb S^2$ of the energy functional \begin{align*} E_\sigma(\boldsymbol{m}) = \int_{\mathbb R^2} \bigg(\frac 12 |\nabla\boldsymbol{m}|^2 +\sigma^2 \boldsymbol{ m} \cdot \nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Bin Deng , Radu Ignat , Xavier Lamy

We study Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) appearing at the interface of a nonmagnetic/noncollinear-antiferromagnetic bilayer. DMI is an antisymmetric exchange interaction between neighboring magnetic spins, arising in the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Yuta Yamane , Yasufumi Araki , Shunsuke Fukami

Contraction and expansion of skyrmions in ferromagnetic films are investigated. In centrosymmetric systems, the dynamics of a collapsing skyrmion is driven by dissipation. The collapse time has a minimum on the damping constant. In systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasiparticles with great potential for applications in future information storage and processing devices because of their nanoscale size, high stability, and large velocity. Recently, the high-frequency…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Xing Chen , Wang Kang , Daoqian Zhu , Na Lei , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Youguang Zhang , Weisheng Zhao

When two magnetic skyrmions - whirl-like, topologically protected quasiparticles - form a bound pair, a biskyrmion state with a topological charge of $N_\mathrm{Sk}=\pm 2$ is constituted. Recently, especially the case of two partially…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-03 Börge Göbel , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig