Skyrmion Hall effect with spatially modulated Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction

The skyrmion Hall effect is theoretically studied in the chiral ferromagnetic film with spatially modulated Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction. Three cases including linear, sinusoidal, and periodic rectangular modulations have been considered, where the increase, decrease, and the periodic modification of the size and velocity of the skyrmion have been observed in the microscopic simulations. These phenomena are well explained by the Thiele equation, where an effective force on the skyrmion is induced by the inhomogeneous Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction. The results here suggest that the skyrmion Hall effect can be manipulated by artificially tuning the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in chiral ferromagnetic film with material engineering methods, which will be useful to design skyrmion-based spintronics devices.     

Skyrmion crystals in pseudo-spin-1/2 Bose–Einstein condensates

Exact two-dimensional solutions are constructed for the pseudo-spin-1/2 Bose–Einstein condensates,which are described by the coupled nonlinear Gross–Pitaevskii equations where the intra-and inter-species coupling constants are assumed to be equal.The equations are decoupled by means of re-combinations of the nonlinear terms of the hyperfine states according to the spatial dimensions.The stationary solutions form various spin textures which are identified as skyrmion crystals.In a special case,a crystal of skyrmion–anti-skyrmion pairs is formed in the soliton limit.     

电流驱动凹槽磁纳米带内斯格明子的移动特性

基于微磁学理论和模拟研究电流驱动的斯格明子的移动特性.相对于纳米带,凹槽纳米带可提供更大的边缘排斥力抑制斯格明子横向移动,最大驱动电流(Jmax)和最大斯格明子移动速度(Vmax)显著增加.随着注入电流密度的增加,凹槽纳米带内斯格明子移动速度先增加到最大速度,而后减小或保持不变.通过增加边缘宽度或厚度,Jmax和Vma...     

Skyrmion transport driven by pure voltage generated strain gradient

The magnetic skyrmion transport driven by pure voltage-induced strain gradient is proposed and studied via micromagnetic simulation. Through combining the skyrmion with multiferroic heterojunction, a voltage-induced uniaxial strain gradient is adjusted to move skyrmions. In the system, a pair of short-circuited trapezoidal top electrodes can generate the symmetric strain. Due to the symmetry of strain, the magnetic skyrmion can be driven with a linear motion in the middle of the nanostrip without deviation. We calculate the strain distribution generated by the trapezoidal top electrodes pair, and further investigate the influence of the strain intensity as well as the strain gradient on the skyrmion velocity. Our findings provide a stable and low-energy regulation method for skyrmion transport.     

Spin-Wave Excitations and Energy Gap in Quasi-One-Dimensional Organic Polymer Ferromagnets

Based on a theory model proposed for organic ferrornagnets, the spin configuration and spinwave excitations in quasi-one-dimensional organic polymer ferromagnets are studied. The results show that: 1) Owing to the unpaired electrons at side free-radicals, the degeneracy of the spin-wave will be removed, the lower branch of the spin-wave excitations will split off into two branches, and it shows ferromagnetic characters; 2) The anisotropic interactions between the unpaired electrons at side free-radicals will make an energy gap appear between the ground state and the lowest excited state.     

几种纤锌矿相硫族和磷族半金属铁磁体磁电性能的第一性原理

采用基于密度泛函理论中的广义梯度近似的第一性原理研究, 优化了纤锌矿结构化合物CrX(X=As、Sb、O、Se和Te)的几何结构, 并详细计算了它们的磁电性能． 结果表明, 这些磷族或硫族化合物在费米面处的自旋极化率均为100%, 分子磁矩分别为整数3.00和4.00 μB; 分子磁矩主要来自于Cr离子; 磷族和硫族化合物中存在亚铁磁性耦合; 它们的居里温度均较高; 磷族和硫族化合物中Cr离子的电子结构分别为a²_1g↑↓t⁴_1u↑↓t¹_1u↑e²_g↑和a²_1g↑↓t⁴_1u↑↓t¹_1u↑t³_2g↑.     

Observation of Magnetic Excitations of Skyrmion Crystal in a Helimagnetic Insulator Cu_{2}OSeO_{3}

We have investigated the low-energy dynamics of the triangular lattice of Skyrmions in a helimagnetic insulator Cu_{2}OSeO_{3} in terms of microwave response. We have observed two elementary excitations of the Skyrmion with different polarization characteristics: the counterclockwise circulating mode at 1?GHz with the magnetic field polarization parallel to the Skyrmion plane and the breathing mode at 1.5?GHz with a perpendicular magnetic field polarization. These modes reflect the topological nature of Skyrmions and may play a central role in the Skyrmion dynamics.     

Skyrmion in nuclear matter

The properties of Skyrmions in finite nuclei are considered. The deformation effect is taken into account through the external-field-induced distortion of the profile function of a chiral field. The masses of classical Skyrmions and the distribution of their baryon number versus the Skyrmion position within a nucleus are discussed.     

Interface Motion in Disordered Ferromagnets

We consider numerically the depinning transition in the random-field Ising model. Our analysis reveals that the three and four dimensional model displays a simple scaling behavior whereas the five dimensional scaling behavior is affected by logarithmic corrections. This suggests that d = 5 is the upper critical dimension of the depinning transition in the random-field Ising model. Furthermore, we investigate the so-called creep regime (small driving fields and temperatures) where the interface velocity is given by an Arrhenius law.     

周期性应变调控斯格明子在纳米条带中的运动

斯格明子是一种拓扑稳定的手性自旋结构,凭借其在磁性赛道存储器和自旋电子器件方面的巨大应用潜力而受到研究人员的广泛关注.为了使斯格明子能够更好地应用于磁性赛道存储器,研究斯格明子在纳米条带中的运动行为就变得非常重要.本文主要研究了存在周期性应变的纳米条带中铁磁斯格明子和反铁磁斯格明子在电流驱动下的运动行为.研究结果表明:周期性应变使得驱动电流存在一个临界电流密度,只有当电流密度大于临界电流密度时斯格明子才能够在纳米条带中连续移动.临界电流密度随应变振幅的增加而增加,随应变周期的增加而减小.铁磁斯格明子在周期性应变的调制下会产生周期性运动,轨迹为波浪式,其横向速度受到边界的影响,而纵向速度则与应变梯度成正比.反铁磁斯格明子在周期性应变调控下运动方向不变,但其移动速度则剧烈变化.     

The relation between the radii and the densities of magnetic skyrmions

Compared with the traditional magnetic bubble, a skyrmion has a smaller size, and better stability and therefore is considered as a very promising candidate for future memory devices. When skyrmions are manipulated, erased and created, the density of skyrmions can be varied, however the relationship between the radii and the densities of skyrmions needs more exploration. In this paper, we study this problem both theoretically and by using the lattice simulation. The average radius of skyrmions as a function of material parameters, the strength of the external magnetic field and the density of skyrmions is obtained and verified. With this explicit function, the skyrmion radius can be easily predicted, which is helpful for the future study of skyrmion memory devices.     

Topological Aspects of Solitons in Ferromagnets

Two kinds of topological soliton （skyrmion and magnetic vortex ring） in ferromagnets are studied. They have the common topological origin, a tensor Hαβ = n→·（δαn→×βδn→）, which describes the non-trivial distribution of local orientation of magnetization n→ at large distances in space. The topological stability of skyrmion is protected by the winding number. Knot-like topological defect as magnetic vortex rings is also studied. On the assumption that magnetic vortex rings are geometric lines, we present their δ-function distribution in ferromagnetic materials. Furthermore, it is briefly shown that Hopf invariant is a proper topological invariant to describe the topology of magnetic vortex rings.     

PAC Investigation of Amorphous Ferromagnets

The amorphous ferromagnetic alloy Fe79/B16/Si5 was investigated by PAC. For that the probe atoms ¹¹¹In(¹¹¹Cd) and ^111mCd were implanted at the ISOLDE on-line separator. The distributions of magnetic hyperfine fields were determined. Below the crystallization temperature α-Fe clusters could be observed. For comparison Mössbauer transmission experiments were performed.     

Skyrmion dynamics in 2 + 1 dimensions

The classical dynamics of slowly moving CP¹ skyrmions in 2 + 1 dimensions is shown to be described by the geodesic motion on a Kähler manifold of “quark” and “anti-quark” constituents. Including a Hopf term in the lagrangian gives rise to interpolating quantum statistics and evaluation of the virial expansion amounts to the calculation of heat kernels for operators in a flux tube field background.     

斯格明子在均匀磁场中的性质（英文）

主要研究了斯格明子的质量和电荷半径在均匀磁场中的变化性质。基于系统所拥有的对称性,本研究采用一组拥有轴对称性的拟设方程式以便进行研究工作。本研究证明重子数即使在非零磁场中也是一个守恒量。本研究发现随着磁场强度的增加,斯格明子的质量和电荷半径对磁场的依赖方式不同:由于磁场的主要贡献由线性项过渡到平方项,因此随着磁场的增强,斯格明子的质量先下降然后上升;与此相对应的,随着磁场的增强,斯格明子的电荷半径先增加然后减小。最后,本研究发现磁星内部的状态方程式对磁场强度有强烈的依赖,因此在理论计算磁星的质量上限时应考虑磁场所产生的影响。The mass and shape of skyrmion in an uniform magnetic field are investigated. Base on the symmetry of the system, an axially symmetric ansatz of the soliton is proposed to perform the study. The baryon number is shown to be always conserved even in a nonzero magnetic background. It is found that with the increase of the strength of magnetic field, the static mass of skyrmion first decreases then increases, as the dominant role shift from the linear term of magnetic field to the quadratic term of magnetic field, while the soliton size first increase then decrease. Finally, in the core part of magnetar, the equation of state have strong dependence of magnetic field, which also modifies the mass limit for magnetar.     

磁斯格明子拓扑特性及其动力学微磁学模拟研究进展

具有非平庸拓扑性的新型磁结构斯格明子,由于其拓扑稳定性、尺寸小、低电流驱动等方面的显著优势,有望应用于自旋电子学储存器件.拓扑和凝聚态物理学的结合,使得斯格明子展现出很多有趣的拓扑物理现象,吸引了众多的研究兴趣,同时这些性质也是其电流驱动下动力学特点的重要影响因素.本文从斯格明子的拓扑物理学基础及其自旋电子学器件应用相关动力学两个方面介绍了相关研究进展.在拓扑物理基础方面,介绍了斯格明子的拓扑霍尔效应、斯格明子霍尔效应以及自旋轨道转矩等拓扑性质,由此讨论了斯格明子的动力学性质及其计算方法;在动力学方面,从非均匀电流驱动生成斯格明子、电流驱动下的稳定输运、产生湮灭过程的人工控制几个赛道存储应用关心的问题简要地介绍了相关微磁学模拟研究最新进展.