Polyhexatic and Polycrystalline States of Skyrmion Lattices

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Hauptverfasser: Garanin, Dmitry A., Chudnovsky, Eugene M.
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author Garanin, Dmitry A.
Chudnovsky, Eugene M.
author_facet Garanin, Dmitry A.
Chudnovsky, Eugene M.
contents Abstract We report Monte Carlo studies of lattices of up to $10^{5}$ skyrmions treated as particles with negative core energy and repulsive interaction obtained from a microscopic spin model. Temperature dependence of translational and orientational correlations has been investigated for different experimental protocols and initial conditions. Cooling the skyrmion liquid from fully disordered high-temperature state results in the formation of a skyrmion polycrystal. A perfect skyrmion lattice prepared at $T=0$, on raising temperature undergoes a first-order melting transition into a polyhexatic state that consists of large orientationally ordered domains of fluctuating shape. On the further increasing temperature, these domains decrease in size, leading to a fully disordered liquid of skyrmions.
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spellingShingle Polyhexatic and Polycrystalline States of Skyrmion Lattices
Garanin, Dmitry A.
Chudnovsky, Eugene M.
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract We report Monte Carlo studies of lattices of up to $10^{5}$ skyrmions treated as particles with negative core energy and repulsive interaction obtained from a microscopic spin model. Temperature dependence of translational and orientational correlations has been investigated for different experimental protocols and initial conditions. Cooling the skyrmion liquid from fully disordered high-temperature state results in the formation of a skyrmion polycrystal. A perfect skyrmion lattice prepared at $T=0$, on raising temperature undergoes a first-order melting transition into a polyhexatic state that consists of large orientationally ordered domains of fluctuating shape. On the further increasing temperature, these domains decrease in size, leading to a fully disordered liquid of skyrmions.
title Polyhexatic and Polycrystalline States of Skyrmion Lattices
topic Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06618