Surface twist instabilities and skyrmion states in chiral ferromagnets
arXiv:1405.5275 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.90.014406
Abstract
In epitaxial MnSi/Si(111) films, the in-plane magnetization saturation is never reached due to the formation of specific surface chiral modulations with the propagation direction perpendicular to the film surfaces [Wilson et al. Phys. Rev. B 88, 214420 (2013)]. In this paper we show that the occurrence of such chiral surface twists is a general effect attributed to all bulk and con- fined magnetic crystals lacking inversion symmetry. We present experimental investigations of this phenomenon in nanolayers of MnSi/Si(111) supported by detailed theoretical analysis within the standard phenomenological model. In magnetic nanolayers with intrinsic or induced chirality, such surface induced instabilities become sizeable effects and play a crucial role in the formation of skyrmion lattices and other nontrivial chiral modulations.
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