Chiral Surface Twists and Skyrmion Stability in Nanolayers of Cubic Helimagnets

Autor: A O, Leonov, Y, Togawa, T L, Monchesky, A N, Bogdanov, J, Kishine, Y, Kousaka, M, Miyagawa, T, Koyama, J, Akimitsu, Ts, Koyama, K, Harada, S, Mori, D, McGrouther, R, Lamb, M, Krajnak, S, McVitie, R L, Stamps, K, Inoue
Rok vydání: 2016
Zdroj: Physical review letters. 117(8)
ISSN: 1079-7114
Popis: Theoretical analysis and Lorentz transmission electron microscopy (LTEM) investigations in an FeGe wedge demonstrate that chiral twists arising near the surfaces of noncentrosymmetric ferromagnets [Meynell et al., Phys. Rev. B 90, 014406 (2014)] provide a stabilization mechanism for magnetic Skyrmion lattices and helicoids in cubic helimagnet nanolayers. The magnetic phase diagram obtained for freestanding cubic helimagnet nanolayers shows that magnetization processes differ fundamentally from those in bulk cubic helimagnets and are characterized by the first-order transitions between modulated phases. LTEM investigations exhibit a series of hysteretic transformation processes among the modulated phases, which results in the formation of the multidomain patterns.
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