Oscillation modes of skyrmion strings in a ferromagnetic film

Abstract

It is shown that a skyrmion string in a ferromagnetic film consisting of $N$ atomic layers exhibits flexural oscillations at eigenfrequencies $|{\omega }_m|=(4J^{\prime }S/\hslash ){\sin }^2[\pi m/(2N)]$, where $J^{\prime }$ is the interlayer exchange coupling, $S$ is the length of the atomic spin, and $m=1,...,N-1$. This result is confirmed numerically for individual skyrmion strings in a discrete microscopic spin-lattice model of up to ten atomic layers, as well as for skyrmion-string lattices at finite temperature.

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