Antiskyrmions stabilized at interfaces by anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions

Skyrmions, localized defects in the magnetization, can be stabilised in materials by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Hoffmann et al. predict that, when the DMI is anisotropic, antiskyrmions can be formed and coexist with skyrmions, enabling studies and exploitation of their interactions...

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Main Authors: Markus Hoffmann, Bernd Zimmermann, Gideon P. Müller, Daniel Schürhoff, Nikolai S. Kiselev, Christof Melcher, Stefan Blügel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00313-0