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Understanding the role of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) for the formation of helimagnetic order, as well as the emergence of skyrmions in magnetic systems that lack inversion symmetry, has found increasing interest due to the…

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…

The moir\'e engineering of two-dimensional magnets opens unprecedented opportunities to design novel magnetic states with promises for spintronic device applications. The possibility of stabilizing skyrmions in these materials without…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-03 Doried Ghader , Bilal Jabakhanji , Alessandro Stroppa

Magnetic skyrmions in chiral-lattice ferromagnets are currently attracting enormous research interest because of their potential applications in spintronic devices. However, they emerge in bulk specimens only in a narrow window of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Kohei Tanaka , Ryosuke Sugawara , Masahito Mochizuki

Magnetic skyrmions are nanometric swirling spin textures that exhibit remarkable stability at finite temperatures, making them promising candidates for spintronic applications. Achieving controllable stability and transitions between…

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

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

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale topological spin structures offering great promise for next-generation information storage technologies. The recent discovery of sub-100 nm room temperature (RT) skyrmions in several multilayer films has…

Thin magnetic films with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions are known to host skyrmion crystals, which typically have a hexagonal lattice structure. We investigate skyrmion-lattice configurations in synthetic antiferromagnets, i.e., a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Etienne van Walsem , Rembert A. Duine , Juriaan Lucassen , Reinoud Lavrijsen , Henk J. M. Swagten

Using resonant x-ray diffraction, we observe an easy c-axis collinear antiferromagnetic structure for the bilayer Sr$_3$Ir$_2$O$_7$, a significant contrast to the single layer Sr$_2$IrO$_4$ with in-plane canted moments. Based on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-11 J. W. Kim , Y. Choi , Jungho Kim , J. F. Mitchell , G. Jackeli , M. Daghofer , J. van den Brink , G. Khaliullin , B. J. Kim

Magnetic skyrmion is a topologically stable particle-like swirling spin texture potentially suitable for high-density information bit, which was first observed in noncentrosymmetric magnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Recently,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-01 N. D. Khanh , T. Nakajima , S. Hayami , S. Gao , Y. Yamasaki , H. Sagayama , H. Nakao , R. Takagi , Y. Motome , Y. Tokura , T. Arima , S. Seki

Symmetry breaking together with strong spin-orbit interaction give rise to many exciting phenomena within condensed matter physics. A recent example is the existence of chiral spin textures, which are observed in magnetic systems lacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Wanjun Jiang , Gong Chen , Kai Liu , Jiadong Zang , Suzanne G. E. te Velthuis , Axel Hoffmann

This study investigates the stability of skyrmions and biskyrmions in perpendicular magnetic tunneling junctions with a thick CoFeB/Ta/CoFeB free layer. The samples showed a magnetoresistance of ~ 41% when annealed at 230 {\deg}C. Magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 W. Al Saidi , S. Amara , M. T. Zar Myint , S. Al Harthi , G. Setti , R. Sbiaa

Skyrmions are important in topological quantum field theory for being soliton solutions of a nonlinear sigma model and in information technology for their attractive applications. Skyrmions are believed to be circular and stripy spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 X. R. Wang , X. C. Hu , H. T. Wu

Hybrid multiferroic films are fabricated by depositing of Pt/Co/Pt multilayers onto [001] and [110] cuts of PMN-PT crystal. The dependence of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI) on applied electric field is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-10 O. G. Udalov , R. V. Gorev , N. S. Gusev , A. V. Sadovnikov , M. V. Sapozhnikov

A two dimensional ferromagnetic XY model with its bound vortex-antivortex dominated quasi long range ordered phase at low temperatures is a long standing as well as well studied problem of interest in the field of condensed matter. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-07 Rajdip Banerjee , Satyaki Kar

We numerically investigate the stability of the skyrmion crystals in a centrosymmetric lattice structure by focusing on the role of magnetic frustration arising from the multi-sublattice degree of freedom. By analyzing an effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-23 Satoru Hayami

Chiral spin textures are fundamentally interesting, with promise for device applications. Stabilizing chirality is conventionally achieved by introducing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in asymmetric multilayers where the thickness…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-25 Gong Chen , Colin Ophus , Roberto Lo Conte , Roland Wiesendanger , Gen Yin , Andreas K. Schmid , Kai Liu

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

Recently, there has been substantial interest in realizations of skyrmions, in particular in 2D systems due to increased stability resulting from reduced dimensionality. A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Utkan Güngördü , Rabindra Nepal , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Kirill Belashchenko , Alexey A. Kovalev