Dynamics of the collapse of a ferromagnetic skyrmion in a centrosymmetric lattice

Abstract

Time dependence of the size and chirality of a ferromagnetic skyrmion in a Heisenberg model with the magnetic field on a square lattice has been studied analytically and numerically. The lattice and the magnetic field generate strong time dependence of the skyrmion chirality. Due to nonlinearity, the lattice alone also generates strong intrinsic damping that leads to the skyrmion collapse via the emission of spin waves. In the absence of the magnetic field the collapse is slow for a large skyrmion but it becomes exponentially fast in the presence of the Landau-Lifshitz damping when the field is turned on. Magnons emitted by a collapsing skyrmion must have a discrete spectrum due to the quantization of the skyrmion magnetic moment.

8 pages, 9 figures

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