Anisotropic skyrmion and multi-$q$ spin dynamics in centrosymmetric Gd${}_2$PdSi${}_3$

Abstract

Skyrmions are particle-like vortices of magnetization with non-trivial topology, which are usually stabilized by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI) in noncentrosymmetric bulk materials. Exceptions are centrosymmetric Gd- and Eu-based skyrmion-lattice (SkL) hosts with zero DMI, where both the SkL stabilization mechanisms and magnetic ground states remain controversial. We address these here by investigating both the static and dynamical spin properties of the centrosymmetric SkL host Gd${}_2$PdSi${}_3$ using muon spectroscopy ($\mu$SR). We find that spin fluctuations in the non-coplanar SkL phase are highly anisotropic, implying that spin anisotropy plays a prominent role in stabilizing this phase. We also observe strongly-anisotropic spin dynamics in the ground-state (IC-1) incommensurate magnetic phase of the material, indicating that it hosts a meron-like multi-$q$ structure. In contrast, the higher-field, coplanar IC-2 phase is found to be single-$q$ with nearly-isotropic spin dynamics.

arXiv commentMain text: 8 pages, 3 figures. Supplemental Material: 7 pages, 8 figures. Data and code available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28024910

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