Instability of magnetic skyrmion strings induced by longitudinal spin currents
arXiv:2303.08532 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.066702
Abstract
It is well established that spin-transfer torques exerted by in-plane spin currents give rise to a motion of magnetic skyrmions resulting in a skyrmion Hall effect. In films of finite thickness or in three-dimensional bulk samples the skyrmions extend in the third direction forming a string. We demonstrate that a spin current flowing longitudinally along the skyrmion string instead induces a Goldstone spin wave instability. Our analytical results are confirmed by micromagnetic simulations of both a single string as well as string lattices suggesting that the instability eventually breaks the strings. A longitudinal current is thus able to melt the skyrmion string lattice via a dynamical phase transition. For films of finite thickness or in the presence of disorder a threshold current will be required, and we estimate the latter assuming weak collective pinning.
arXiv comment10 pages, 7 figures
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