Directional Locking and the Influence of Obstacle Density on Skyrmion Dynamics in Triangular and Honeycomb Arrays
arXiv:2103.06814 · doi:10.1088/1361-648X/ac0081
Abstract
We numerically examine a single skyrmion dynamics under the influence of triangular and honeycomb obstacle arrays at zero temperature. The skyrmion Hall angle , that is the angle between the applied external drive and the direction of the skyrmion motion, increases in quantized steps or continuously as a function of the applied drive. For the obstacle arrays studied in this work, the skyrmion exhibits two main directional locking effects, where the skyrmion motion locks with and . We show that these directions are privileged due to the obstacle landscape symmetry, where there are channels that the skyrmion may move with less or no obstacle collisions. Besides that, the skyrmion Hall angles can be modified by changing the obstacle density in the sample, where some dynamic phases may appear, vanish or be stimulated. This interesting behavior can be useful to guide skyrmions using regions with different obstacle densities to set the skyrmion into designed trajectories. We have also investigated for fixed obstacle densities how the phases with and evolve as a function of the Magnus force, where possibilities for switching between these phases and topological selection is discussed.
arXiv comment19 pages, 12 figures
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