Soft-Magnetic Skyrmions Induced by Surface-State Coupling in an Intrinsic Ferromagnetic Topological Insulator Sandwich Structure
| Autor: | Takuya Takashiro, Ryota Akiyama, Ivan A. Kibirev, Andrey V. Matetskiy, Ryosuke Nakanishi, Shunsuke Sato, Takuro Fukasawa, Taisuke Sasaki, Haruko Toyama, Kota L. Hiwatari, Andrey V. Zotov, Alexander A. Saranin, Toru Hirahara, Shuji Hasegawa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Mechanical Engineering Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) FOS: Physical sciences General Materials Science Bioengineering General Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect |
| Zdroj: | Nano letters. 22(3) |
| ISSN: | 1530-6992 |
| Popis: | A magnetic skyrmion induced on a ferromagnetic topological insulator (TI) is a real-space manifestation of the chiral spin texture in the momentum space, and can be a carrier for information processing by manipulating it in tailored structures. Here, we fabricate a sandwich structure containing two layers of a self-assembled ferromagnetic septuple-layer TI, Mn(Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_{x}$)$_{2}$Te$_{4}$ (MnBST), separated by quintuple layers of TI, (Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_{x}$)$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ (BST), and observe skyrmions through the topological Hall effect in an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator for the first time. The thickness of BST spacer layer is crucial in controlling the coupling between the gapped topological surface states in the two MnBST layers to stabilize the skyrmion formation. The homogeneous, highly-ordered arrangement of the Mn atoms in the septuple-layer MnBST leads to a strong exchange interaction therein, which makes the skyrmions "soft magnetic". This would open an avenue towards a topologically robust rewritable magnetic memory. |
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