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- Title
Ground state search, hysteretic behaviour, and reversal mechanism of skyrmionic textures in confined helimagnetic nanostructures.
- Authors
Beg, Marijan; Carey, Rebecca; Wang, Weiwei; Cortés-Ortuño, David; Vousden, Mark; Bisotti, Marc-Antonio; Albert, Maximilian; Chernyshenko, Dmitri; Hovorka, Ondrej; Stamps, Robert L.; Fangohr, Hans
- Abstract
Magnetic skyrmions have the potential to provide solutions for low-power, high-density data storage and processing. One of the major challenges in developing skyrmion-based devices is the skyrmions' magnetic stability in confined helimagnetic nanostructures. Through a systematic study of equilibrium states, using a full three-dimensional micromagnetic model including demagnetisation effects, we demonstrate that skyrmionic textures are the lowest energy states in helimagnetic thin film nanostructures at zero external magnetic field and in absence of magnetocrystalline anisotropy. We also report the regions of metastability for non-ground state equilibrium configurations. We show that bistable skyrmionic textures undergo hysteretic behaviour between two energetically equivalent skyrmionic states with different core orientation, even in absence of both magnetocrystalline and demagnetisation-based shape anisotropies, suggesting the existence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-based shape anisotropy. Finally, we show that the skyrmionic texture core reversal dynamics is facilitated by the Bloch point occurrence and propagation.
- Subjects
SKYRMIONS; INFORMATION retrieval; MAGNETIC anisotropy; PHENOMENOLOGICAL quark model; GROUND state (Quantum mechanics); ENERGY levels (Quantum mechanics)
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2015, p17137
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep17137