Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya spin textures: From tilted domain walls to skyrmions and antiskyrmions

  • Date: Sep 20, 2017
  • Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Oleg A. Tretiakov
  • Tohoku University, Institute for Materials Research, Sendai
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle (Saale)
  • Room: Lecture Hall Building B
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya spin textures: From tilted domain walls to skyrmions and antiskyrmions

Condensed-matter systems with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction offer exciting opportunities to form various spin textures, such as tilted domain walls, skyrmions and antiskyrmions. I will talk about these magnetic textures, the conditions when they can be formed, their internal structure, and dynamics due to spin-orbit torques. I will start with ferromagnetic systems and discuss how surface curvature and disorder may affect these textures and their dynamics. Then I will move on to antiferromagnets where I will discuss the stability and peculiar dynamics of skyrmions showing no skyrmion Hall effect.

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