Stability of Biskyrmions in Centrosymmetric Magnetic Films

Abstract

Motivated by the observation of biskyrmions in centrosymmetric magnetic films (Yu et al. Nature Communications 2014, Wang et al. Advanced Materials 2016), we investigate analytically and numerically the stability of biskyrmions in films of finite thickness, taking into account the nearest-neighbor exchange interaction, perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), dipole-dipole interaction (DDI), and the discreteness of the atomic lattice. The biskyrmion is characterized by the topological charge $Q=2$, the spatial scale $\lambda$, and another independent length $d$ that can be interpreted as a separation of two $Q=1$ skyrmions inside a $Q=2$ topological defect in the background of uniform magnetization. We find that biskyrmions with $d$ of order $\lambda$ can be stabilized by the magnetic field within a certain range of the ratio of PMA to DDI in a film having a sufficient number of atomic layers $N_z$. The shape of biskyrmions has been obtained by the numerical minimization of the energy of interacting spins in a $1000\times 1000\times N_z$ atomic lattice. It is close to the exact solution of Belavin-Polyakov model when $d$ is below the width of the ferromagnetic domain wall. We compute the magnetic moment of a biskyrmion and discuss ways of creating biskyrmions in experiment.

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