Common patterns of skyrmion magnetizations unveiled by defect implantation
摘要
Skyrmions are spin-swirling textures hosting wonderful properties with potential implications in information technology. Such magnetic particles carry a magnetization, whose amplitude is crucial to establish them as robust magnetic bits, while their topological nature gives rise to a plethora of exquisite features such as topological protection, the skyrmion and topological Hall effects as well as the topological orbital moment. These effects are all induced by an emergent magnetic field directly proportional to the three-spin scalar chirality, χ = (Si × Sj) ⋅ Sk, and shaped by the peculiar spatial dependence of the magnetization. Here, we demonstrate the existence of novel chiral magnetizations emerging from the interplay of spin-orbit interaction and either χ or the two-spin vector chirality