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Reciprocity of Magnetism and Nanostructure Growth
Felix Zahner, Kirsten von Bergmann, Roland Wiesendanger +1
The growth of thin films and nanostructures is a fundamental process for constructing both model-type systems and nanoscale devices, where performance and functionalities can be co…
Topological meron-antimeron domain walls and skyrmions in a low-symmetry system
Reiner Brüning, Levente Rózsa, Roberto Lo Conte +3
The generation of topologically non-trivial magnetic configurations has been a pivotal topic in both basic and applied nanomagnetism research. Localized non-coplanar magnetic defec…
Strain-driven domain wall network with chiral junctions in an antiferromagnet
Vishesh Saxena, Mara Gutzeit, Arturo Rodríguez-Sota +6
Materials with antiferromagnetic order have recently emerged as promising candidates in spintronics based on their beneficial characteristics such as vanishing stray fields and ult…
Kicking Co and Rh atoms on a row-wise antiferromagnet
Felix Zahner, Soumyajyoti Haldar, Roland Wiesendanger +3
Diffusion on surfaces is a fundamental process in surface science, governing nanostructure and film growth, molecular self-assembly, and chemical reactions. Atom motion on non-magn…
Antiferromagnetic order of topological orbital moments in atomic-scale skyrmion lattices
Felix Nickel, André Kubetzka, Mara Gutzeit +3
Topological orbital moments can arise in non-coplanar spin structures even in the absence of spin-orbit coupling and a net topological orbital magnetization occurs for the triple-Q…
Phase Coexistence of Mn Trimer Clusters and Antiferromagnetic Mn Islands on Ir(111)
Arturo Rodríguez-Sota, Vishesh Saxena, Jonas Spethmann +4
Clusters supported by solid substrates are prime candidates for heterogeneous catalysis and can be prepared in various ways. While mass-selected soft-landing methods are often used…
Coupling of the triple-Q state to the atomic lattice by anisotropic symmetric exchange
Felix Nickel, André Kubetzka, Soumyajyoti Haldar +3
We identify the triple-Q (3Q) state as magnetic ground state in Pd/Mn and Rh/Mn bilayers on Re(0001) using spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theor…
Nano-scale collinear multi-Q states driven by higher-order interactions
Mara Gutzeit, André Kubetzka, Soumyajyoti Haldar +4
Complex magnetic order arises due to the competition of different interactions between the magnetic moments. Recently, there has been an increased interest in such states not only…
Nanoscale Skyrmions on a Square Atomic Lattice
Reiner Brüning, André Kubetzka, Kirsten von Bergmann +2
Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy has been applied to study non-collinear spin textures of a Mn monolayer on a four-fold symmetric W(001) substrate revealing a zero-fiel…
Coexistence of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity in Mn/Nb(110)
Roberto Lo Conte, Maciej Bazarnik, Krisztián Palotás +5
We report on the structural and magnetic properties of single and double atomic layers of Mn on a clean and unreconstructed Nb(110) substrate. Low-temperature scanning tunneling sp…
Zero-field skyrmionic states and in-field edge-skyrmions induced by boundary tuning
Jonas Spethmann, Elena Y. Vedmedenko, Roland Wiesendanger +2
When magnetic skyrmions are moved via currents, they do not strictly travel along the path of the current, instead their motion also gains a transverse component. This so-called sk…
Topological-chiral magnetic interactions in ultrathin films at surfaces
Soumyajyoti Haldar, Sebastian Meyer, André Kubetzka +1
We demonstrate that topological-chiral magnetic interactions can play a key role for magnetic ground states in ultrathin films at surfaces. Based on density functional theory we sh…
Domain Walls in a Row-Wise Antiferromagnetic Mn Monolayer
Jonas Spethmann, Martin Grünebohm, Roland Wiesendanger +2
We investigate magnetic domain walls in a single fcc Mn layer on Re(0001) employing spin-polarized STM, atom manipulation, and spin dynamics simulations. The low symmetry of the ro…
Plumbene on a magnetic substrate: a combined STM and DFT study
Gustav Bihlmayer, Jonas Sassmannshausen, André Kubetzka +3
As heavy analog of graphene, plumbene is a two-dimensional material with strong spin-orbit coupling effects. Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we observe that Pb forms a f…
Towards skyrmion-superconductor hybrid systems
André Kubetzka, Jan M. Bürger, Roland Wiesendanger +1
Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy is used to identify the magnetic state of different thin films on a Re(0001) substrate, which becomes superconducting below 1.7 K. All…
Discovery of magnetic single- and triple-Q states in Mn/Re(0001)
Jonas Spethmann, Sebastian Meyer, Kirsten von Bergmann +3
We experimentally verify the existence of two model-type magnetic ground states which were previously predicted but so far unobserved. We find them in Mn monolayers on the Re(0001)…
Isolated zero field sub-10 nm skyrmions in ultrathin Co films
Sebastian Meyer, Marco Perini, Stephan von Malottki +4
Due to their exceptional topological and dynamical properties magnetic skyrmions - localized stable spin structures on the nanometre scale - show great promise for future spintroni…
Nano-scale magnetic skyrmions and target states in confined geometries
David Cortés-Ortuño, Niklas Romming, Marijan Beg +5
Research on magnetic systems with broken inversion symmetry has been stimulated by the experimental proof of particle-like configurations known as skyrmions, whose non-trivial topo…
Magnetic domain walls in strain-patterned ultrathin films
Aurore Finco, Marco Perini, André Kubetzka +2
We present a comparison of the characteristics of the magnetic domain walls in an atomic monolayer of Co on Pt(111) and a Ni/Fe atomic bilayer on Ir(111), based on spin-polarized s…
Domain walls and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in epitaxial Co/Ir(111) and Pt/Co/Ir(111)
Marco Perini, Sebastian Meyer, Bertrand Dupé +5
We use spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory (DFT) to study domain walls (DWs) and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in epitaxial fil…
Inducing skyrmions in ultrathin Fe films by hydrogen exposure
Pin-Jui Hsu, Levente Rozsa, Aurore Finco +8
Magnetic skyrmions are localized nanometer-sized spin configurations with particle_like properties, which are envisioned to be used as bits in next_generation information technolog…
Temperature-induced increase of spin spiral periods
Aurore Finco, Levente Rózsa, Pin-Jui Hsu +4
Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy investigations reveal a significant increase of the magnetic period of spin spirals in three-atomic-layer-thick Fe films on Ir(111), fr…
Impact of the skyrmion spin texture on magnetoresistance
André Kubetzka, Christian Hanneken, Roland Wiesendanger +1
We investigate the impact of the local spin texture on the differential conductance by scanning tunneling microscopy. In the focus is the previously found non-collinear magnetoresi…
Tailoring non-collinear magnetism by misfit dislocation lines
Aurore Finco, Pin-Jui Hsu, André Kubetzka +2
The large epitaxial stress induced by the misfit between a triple atomic layer Fe film and an Ir(111) substrate is relieved by the formation of a dense dislocation line network. Sp…