Direct Observation of Attractive Skyrmions and Skyrmion Clusters in the Cubic Helimagnet CuOSeO
arXiv:1704.06876 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.134403
Abstract
We report the discovery of attractive magnetic skyrmions and their clusters in non-centrosymmetric ferromagnets. These three-dimensional solitons have been predicted to exist in the cone phase of chiral ferromagnets (J. Phys: Condens. Matter 28 (2016) 35LT01) and are fundamentally different from the more common repulsive axisymmetric skyrmions that occur in the magnetically saturated state. We present real-space images of these skyrmion clusters in thin (~70 nm) single-crystal samples of CuOSeO taken using transmission electron microscopy and develop a phenomenological theory describing this type of skyrmion.
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