Solid-Liquid Transition in a Skyrmion Matter
arXiv:2403.00151 · doi:10.1016/j.jmmm.2024.172395
Abstract
We report Monte-Carlo studies of the orientational order and melting of a 2D skyrmion lattice containing more than one million spins. Two models have been investigated, a microscopic model of lattice spins with Dzyaloshinskii-Moryia interaction that possesses skyrmions, and the model in which skyrmions are treated as point particles with repulsive interaction derived from a spin model. They produce similar results. The skyrmion lattice exhibits a sharp one-step transition between solid and liquid phases on temperature and the magnetic field. This solid-liquid transition is characterized by the kink in the magnetization. The field-temperature phase diagram is computed. We show that the application of the field gradient to a 2D system of skyrmions produces a solid-liquid interface that must be possible to observe in experiments.
11 pages, 14 figures
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