English
Related papers

Related papers: Extended saddle points govern long-lived antiskyrm…

200 papers

The Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction has been extensively explored in isotropic Dirac systems with linear dispersion, which typically follows an exponent decaying rate with the impurity distance $R$, i.e., $J\propto 1/R^d$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Hou-Jian Duan , Yan-Yan Yang , Shi-Han Zheng , Chang-Yong Zhu , Ming-Xun Deng , Ruiqiang Wang , Mou Yang

We revisit the phenomenological Dzyaloshinskii framework, a central theoretical approach for describing magnetization processes in bulk chiral magnets, and demonstrate how magnetocrystalline cubic anisotropy reshapes the phase diagrams of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 A. O. Leonov , G. Gödecke , J. Grefe , S. Süllow , D. Menzel

We discuss theoretically a ferromagnetic monolayer with an interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI) and a small axial anisotropy. It is shown that the system has a long-period cycloid magnetic order slightly distorted by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-14 Oleg I. Utesov , Arseny V. Syromyatnikov

Topological magnons emerge as topologically protected spin wave states at the edges of magnets. Here, we theoretically explore how these surface states can be harnessed to amplify the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in antiferromagnets (AFMs)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Feodor Svetlanov Konomaev , Kjetil M. D. Hals

Recent work [1,2] suggests that ferromagnetic reversal with spin transfer torque (STT) requires more current in a system in the presence of DMI than switching a typical ferromagnet of the same dimensions and perpendicular magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Dhritiman Bhattacharya , Md. Mamun Al-Rashid , Jayasimha Atulasimha

We employ a self-consistent simulation approach based on quantum physics here to study the magnetism of antiferromagnetic skyrmions formed on manolayer nanodisk planes. We find that if the disk is small and the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Zhaosen Liu , Hou Ian

We study theoretically, via Monte Carlo simulations on lattices containing up to 1000 x 1000 spins, thermal creation of skyrmion lattices in a 2D ferromagnetic film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-17 Dmitry A. Garanin , Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Senfu Zhang , Xixiang Zhang

Topologically protected magnetic skyrmions in magnetic materials are stabilized by interfacial or bulk Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Interfacial DMI decays with increase of the magnetic layer thickness in just a few nanometers…

The magnetic anisotropy energy defines the energy barrier that stabilizes a magnetic moment. Utilizing density functional theory based simulations and analytical formulations, we establish that this barrier is strongly modified by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-06 Mohammed Bouhassoune , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Bernd ZImmermann , Peter H. Dederichs , Samir Lounis

We study the formation and growth of a skyrmion crystal (SkX) phase in a frustrated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a triangular lattice with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in the presence of an external magnetic field. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-14 M. Mohylna , M. Žukovič

In 2016, the Global Burden of Disease reported that neurological disorders were the principal cause of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and the second leading cause of deaths. Research in the last decade has pushed neuroscience to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Renata Saha , Kai Wu , Diqing Su , Jian-Ping Wang

Kagome magnets naturally hosting Dirac points and flat bands exhibit novel topological phases, enabling rich interplays between interactions and topologies. The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) magnets generally coexisting with different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-24 Jin-Yu Ni , Xia-Ming Zheng , Peng-Tao Wei , Da-Yong Liu , Liang-Jian Zou

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), which is essential for the stabilization of topologically non-trivial chiral magnetic textures such as skyrmions, is particularly strong in heterostructures of ultra-thin magnetic materials and…

We demonstrate that we can determine the antiferromagnetic anisotropies and the bulk Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya fields of the insulating iron oxide hematite, {\alpha}-Fe2O3, using a surface sensitive spin-Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) technique.…

In the ongoing research on two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetic materials with strong intrinsic Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya interaction (DMI), most efforts have focused on doping, Janus engineering, or heterostructure formation to break inversion…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-15 Dimple Rani , B. R. K. Nanda , Prasanjit Samal

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals magnets offer a promising platform for pushing skyrmion technology to the single-layer limit with high tunability. While Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is often recognized as central to skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Megha Arya , Moritz A. Goerzen , Lionel Calmels , Rémi Arras , Soumyajyoti Haldar , Stefan Heinze , Dongzhe Li

The cubic chiral helimagnets with the $P2_13$ space group represent a group of compounds in which the stable skyrmion-lattice state is experimentally observed. The key parameter that controls the energy landscape of such systems and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-11 A. S. Sukhanov , Praveen Vir , A. S. Cameron , H. C. Wu , N. Martin , S. Mühlbauer , A. Heinemann , H. D. Yang , C. Felser , D. S. Inosov

Despite their great promise for providing a pathway for very efficient and fast manipulation of magnetization at the nanoscale, spin-orbit torque (SOT) operations are currently energy inefficient due to a low damping-like SOT efficiency per…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-01 Lijun Zhu , Kemal Sobotkiewich , Xin Ma , Xiaoqin Li , Daniel. C. Ralph , Robert A. Buhrman

We study the spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in Co/Cu/Co magnetic trilayers based on first-principles density-functional theory calculations in the case where the applied electric field lies in-plane, i.e., parallel to the interfaces. We assume…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

Chiral magnets are an emerging class of topological matter harbouring localized and topologically protected vortex-like magnetic textures called skyrmions, which are currently under intense scrutiny as a new entity for information storage…