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电场驱动的双金属薄膜中Skyrmions的稳定性控制

Electric-field driven stability control of skyrmions in an ultrathin transition-metal film

Souvik Paul, Stefan Heinze

摘要:

为了实现未来的自旋电子应用与磁skyrmions -拓扑非平凡的旋转自旋结构-它是必不可少的,以实现有效的写入和删除这些准粒子的能力。电场辅助成核和湮灭是一种很有前途的方法,然而,对潜在的微观机制的理解仍然有限。在这里,我们展示了如何通过外部电场控制单个磁skyrmions在一个过渡金属薄膜的稳定性。我们基于密度泛函理论证明,重要的是考虑所有相互作用与电场的变化,即,成对交换、Dzyaloshinskiii-Moriya相互作用、磁晶各向异性能和高阶交换相互作用。通过原子自旋模拟得到的电场辅助的skyrmion写入和删除的能量势垒的变化高达三倍以上的第一性原理计算的相互作用的变化。这种令人惊讶的效应源自于在固定磁场下亚稳态skyrmion的大小依赖于电场。大的寿命变化允许电场辅助热激活写入和删除的skyrmions的可能性。

英文摘要:

To realize future spintronic applications with magnetic skyrmions -- topologically nontrivial swirling spin structures -- it is essential to achieve efficient writing and deleting capabilities of these quasi-particles. Electric-field assisted nucleation and annihilation is a promising route, however, the understanding of the underlying microscopic mechanisms is still limited. Here, we show how the stability of individual magnetic skyrmions in an ultrathin transition-metal film can be controlled via external electric fields. We demonstrate based on density functional theory that it is important to consider the changes of all interactions with electric field, i.e., the pair-wise exchange, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy, and the higher-order exchange interactions. The energy barriers for electric-field assisted skyrmion writing and deleting obtained via atomistic spin simulations vary by up to a factor of three more than the variations of the interactions calculated from first-principles. This surprising effect originates from the electric-field dependent size of metastable skyrmions at a fixed magnetic field. The large changes of lifetimes allow the possibility of electric-field assisted thermally activated writing and deleting of skyrmions.

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