Design Rules for DMI-Stabilised Skyrmions
arXiv:2107.00767
Abstract
Magnetic skyrmions are topological objects, which have recently been observed in thin films at room temperature. Sub 100-nm sizes and spin polarised current manipulation make them candidates for high density information storage and processing. Besides material thickness, skyrmion stability involves many contributions: ferromagnetic exchange, magnetic anisotropy, Dzyaloshinskii-Moryia exchange interaction (DMI) and demagnetising energy. Multidimensional phase diagrams have been reported in the litterature. In this work we propose a simple two-parameter model, exact for thin films in the negligible magnetisation limit, e.g. ferrimagnets close to compensation and synthetic artificial antiferromagnets. It allows to define design rules to stabilize small diameter skyrmions at room temperature with explicit estimates of their nucleation and collapse energies. Comparisons to micromagnetic calculations allow to assess the model quality for non-zero magnetisation and show good agreement.
arXiv commentsubmitted to SciPost Physics. 12 pages 5 figures
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