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- Title
Ordering of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions in a polar van der Waals magnet.
- Authors
Meisenheimer, Peter; Zhang, Hongrui; Raftrey, David; Chen, Xiang; Shao, Yu-Tsun; Chan, Ying-Ting; Yalisove, Reed; Chen, Rui; Yao, Jie; Scott, Mary C.; Wu, Weida; Muller, David A.; Fischer, Peter; Birgeneau, Robert J.; Ramesh, Ramamoorthy
- Abstract
Control and understanding of ensembles of skyrmions is important for realization of future technologies. In particular, the order-disorder transition associated with the 2D lattice of magnetic skyrmions can have significant implications for transport and other dynamic functionalities. To date, skyrmion ensembles have been primarily studied in bulk crystals, or as isolated skyrmions in thin film devices. Here, we investigate the condensation of the skyrmion phase at room temperature and zero field in a polar, van der Waals magnet. We demonstrate that we can engineer an ordered skyrmion crystal through structural confinement on the μm scale, showing control over this order-disorder transition on scales relevant for device applications. Kosterlitz–Thouless–Halperin–Nelson–Young (KTHNY) theory describes the melting of an ordered two-dimensional phase to a disordered phase, via a quasi-ordered 'hexatic' phase. Magnetic skyrmions, as a phase of two-dimensional quasi-particles may be expected to exhibit a KTHNY melting process, however, observing such a phase transition is difficult. Herein, Meisenheimer et al study the formation of magnetic skyrmions in (Fe0.5Co0.5)5GeTe2, and, via physical confinement at device scale, succeed in obtaining an ordered skrymion phase.
- Subjects
THIN film devices; PHASE transitions; ORDER-disorder transitions; MAGNETS; ENGINEERS
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-023-39442-0