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Recent neutron scattering and thermodynamic measurements suggest that Weyl electrons in the emergent Weyl semimetal SmAlSi mediate unconventional magnetic interactions and induce spiral magnetic order. In this work, we investigate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-18 Lasin Thaivalappil , Rahul Verma , Hsin Lin , Bahadur Singh , Shin-Ming Huang

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

We present a physical picture for the emergence of the Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya (DM) interaction based on the idea of the Doppler shift by an intrinsic spin current induced by spin--orbit interaction under broken inversion symmetry. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Toru Kikuchi , Takashi Koretsune , Ryotaro Arita , Gen Tatara

We study realizations of spirals and skyrmions in two-dimensional antiferromagnets with a triangular lattice on an inversion-symmetry-breaking substrate. As a possible material realization, we investigate the adsorption of transition-metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-07 Wuzhang Fang , Aldo Raeliarijaona , Po-Hao Chang , Alexey A. Kovalev , Kirill D. Belashchenko

The origin of the magnetic quadrupole (MQ) interactions in Gd$_{3}$Ru$_{4}$Al$_{12}$ which is known as a frustrated spin system and as a host material of skyrmion with a sentrosymmetric crystal structure are discussed. The MQ interactions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-27 Shintaro Nakamura

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

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 study in this paper effects of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) magnetoelectric coupling between ferroelectric and magnetic layers in a superlattice formed by alternate magnetic and ferroelectric films.Magnetic films are films of simple cubic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-19 Ildus F. Sharafullin , M. Kh. Kharrasov , Hung The Diep

The transition from the microscopic Heisenberg model to the macroscopic elastic theory is carried out for the chiral magnetics of MnSi-type with the B20 crystal structure. Both exchange and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions are taken…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-16 Viacheslav A. Chizhikov , Vladimir E. Dmitrienko

Magnetic skyrmions are textures behaving as quasiparticles which are topologically different from other states. Their discovery in systems with broken inversion symmetry sparked the search for materials containing such magnetic phase at…

Using ab initio density functional theory with static mean-field correlations, we calculate the Heisenberg and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI) for an atomistic spin Hamiltonian for the lacunar spinel, GaV$_4$S$_8$. The parameters…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-13 Vladislav Borisov , Nastaran Salehi , Manuel Pereiro , Anna Delin , Olle Eriksson

Interaction of two skyrmions stabilized by the ferromagnetic exchange, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), and external magnetic field has been studied numerically on a 2D lattice of size large compared to the separation, $d$, between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Daniel Capic , D. A. Garanin , E. M. Chudnovsky

We present a comprehensive theory of the magnetic phases in monolayer nickel-based Janus dihalides (NiIBr, NiICl, NiBrCl) through a combination of first-principles calculations and atomistic simulations. Phonon band structure calculations…

Anisotropic exchange couplings, such as the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), have played a vital role in the formation and dynamics of spin textures. This work predicts an anisotropic conduction electron spin density in metals with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Adam B. Cahaya , Alejandro O. Leon

Magnetic skyrmions are fascinating topological particle-like textures promoted by a trade-off among interfacial properties (perpendicular anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI)) and dipolar interactions. Depending on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 R. Tomasello , Z. Wang , E. Raimondo , S. Je , M. Im , M. Carpentieri , W. Jiang , G. Finocchio

Topological spin structures, such as magnetic skyrmions, hold great promises for data storage applications, thanks to their inherent stability. In most cases, skyrmions are stabilized by magnetic fields in non-centrosymmetric systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Danila Amoroso , Paolo Barone , Silvia Picozzi

Motivated by recent theoretical predictions of a square-shaped skyrmion lattice (S-SkL) in centrosymmetric tetragonal Ce-based magnets [Yan Zha and Satoru Hayami, Phys. Rev. B 111, 165155 (2025)], we perform a comprehensive theoretical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-18 Yan S. Zha , Satoru Hayami

We study phase transitions in the two-dimensional Heisenberg model with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, the Ising anisotropy ($\eta$), and the dipolar interaction under zero and finite magnetic fields ($H$). For three typical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-03 Hisato Komatsu , Yoshihiko Nonomura , Masamichi Nishino

Skyrmions are widely regarded as promising candidates for emergent spintronic devices. Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is often critical to the generation and manipulation of skyrmions. However, there is a fundamental lack of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 Priyamvada Jadaun , Leonard F Register , Sanjay K Banerjee

We study the ordering properties of the isotropic RKKY Heisenberg model on the two-dimensional (2D) triangular lattice by extensive Monte Carlo simulations to get insights into the chiral-degenerate skyrmion crystal (SkX) of metallic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-24 Kota Mitsumoto , Hikaru Kawamura