Unraveling the Complexity of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Layered Magnets: The Full Magnitude and Chirality Control

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Autori principali: Zakeri, Khalil, von Faber, Albrecht, Mankovsky, Sergiy, Ebert, Hubert
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author Zakeri, Khalil
von Faber, Albrecht
Mankovsky, Sergiy
Ebert, Hubert
author_facet Zakeri, Khalil
von Faber, Albrecht
Mankovsky, Sergiy
Ebert, Hubert
contents Chirality is an inherent characteristics of some objects in nature. In magnetism chiral magnetic textures can be formed in systems with broken inversion symmetry and due to an antisymmetric magnetic interaction, known as Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya interaction (DMI). Here, aiming on a fundamental understanding of this chiral interaction on the atomic scale, we design several synthetic layered structures composed of alternating atomic layers of 3d ferromagnetic metals epitaxially grown on Ir(001). We demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically that the atomistic DMI depends critically not only on the orbital occupancy of the interface magnetic layer but also on the sequence of the atomic layers. The effect is attributed to the complexity of the electronic structure and the contribution of different orbitals to the hybridization and DMI. We anticipate that our results provide guidelines for controlling both the chirality and the magnitude of the atomistic DMI.
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spellingShingle Unraveling the Complexity of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Layered Magnets: The Full Magnitude and Chirality Control
Zakeri, Khalil
von Faber, Albrecht
Mankovsky, Sergiy
Ebert, Hubert
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Chirality is an inherent characteristics of some objects in nature. In magnetism chiral magnetic textures can be formed in systems with broken inversion symmetry and due to an antisymmetric magnetic interaction, known as Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya interaction (DMI). Here, aiming on a fundamental understanding of this chiral interaction on the atomic scale, we design several synthetic layered structures composed of alternating atomic layers of 3d ferromagnetic metals epitaxially grown on Ir(001). We demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically that the atomistic DMI depends critically not only on the orbital occupancy of the interface magnetic layer but also on the sequence of the atomic layers. The effect is attributed to the complexity of the electronic structure and the contribution of different orbitals to the hybridization and DMI. We anticipate that our results provide guidelines for controlling both the chirality and the magnitude of the atomistic DMI.
title Unraveling the Complexity of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Layered Magnets: The Full Magnitude and Chirality Control
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18466