Triple-meron crystal in high-spin Kitaev magnets
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| author | Chen, Ken Luo, Qiang Zhou, Zongsheng He, Saisai Xi, Bin Jia, Chenglong Luo, Hong-Gang Zhao, Jize |
| author_facet | Chen, Ken Luo, Qiang Zhou, Zongsheng He, Saisai Xi, Bin Jia, Chenglong Luo, Hong-Gang Zhao, Jize |
| contents | Spin textures with nontrivial topology hold great promise in future spintronics applications since they are robust against local deformations. The meron, as one of such spin textures, is widely believed to appear in pairs due to its topological equivalence to a half skyrmion. Motivated by recent progresses in high-spin Kitaev magnets, here we investigate numerically a classical Kitaev-$Γ$ model with a single-ion anisotropy. An exotic spin texture including three merons is discovered. Such a state features a peculiar property with an odd number of merons in one magnetic unit cell and it can induce the topological Hall effect.Therefore, these merons cannot be dissociated from skyrmions as reported in the literature and a general mechanism for such a deconfinement phenomenon calls for further studies. Our work demonstrates that high-spin Kitaev magnets can host robust unconventional spin textures and thus they offer a versatile platform not only for exploring exotic states in spintronics but also for understanding the deconfinement mechanism in the condensed-matter physics and the field theory. |
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| spellingShingle | Triple-meron crystal in high-spin Kitaev magnets Chen, Ken Luo, Qiang Zhou, Zongsheng He, Saisai Xi, Bin Jia, Chenglong Luo, Hong-Gang Zhao, Jize Other Condensed Matter Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons Spin textures with nontrivial topology hold great promise in future spintronics applications since they are robust against local deformations. The meron, as one of such spin textures, is widely believed to appear in pairs due to its topological equivalence to a half skyrmion. Motivated by recent progresses in high-spin Kitaev magnets, here we investigate numerically a classical Kitaev-$Γ$ model with a single-ion anisotropy. An exotic spin texture including three merons is discovered. Such a state features a peculiar property with an odd number of merons in one magnetic unit cell and it can induce the topological Hall effect.Therefore, these merons cannot be dissociated from skyrmions as reported in the literature and a general mechanism for such a deconfinement phenomenon calls for further studies. Our work demonstrates that high-spin Kitaev magnets can host robust unconventional spin textures and thus they offer a versatile platform not only for exploring exotic states in spintronics but also for understanding the deconfinement mechanism in the condensed-matter physics and the field theory. |
| title | Triple-meron crystal in high-spin Kitaev magnets |
| topic | Other Condensed Matter Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02753 |