Magnetoelastic Coupling-Driven Chiral Spin Textures: A Skyrmion-Antiskyrmion-Like Array

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Main Authors: Go, Gyungchoon, Kim, Se Kwon
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author Go, Gyungchoon
Kim, Se Kwon
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Kim, Se Kwon
contents We theoretically demonstrate that sufficiently strong magnetoelastic coupling can change the ground state of otherwise uniform spin systems to chiral spin configurations. More specifically, we show that, a periodic array of chiral spin textures can spontaneously emerge in a two-dimensional ferromagnetic system on a substrate-even in the absence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. The resulting spin texture resembles a skyrmion-antiskyrmion lattice, characterized by alternating scalar spin chirality and a nonuniform but sign-preserving out-of-plane spin profile. Our analysis reveals that such patterns form naturally when the magnetoelastic interaction is sufficiently strong, while the coupling between flexural phonons and the substrate is sufficiently weak. These findings uncover a previously unexplored mechanism for chiral spin texture formation driven purely by magnetoelastic coupling, signaling at potential utilities of materials with strong magnetoelastic responses.
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spellingShingle Magnetoelastic Coupling-Driven Chiral Spin Textures: A Skyrmion-Antiskyrmion-Like Array
Go, Gyungchoon
Kim, Se Kwon
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
We theoretically demonstrate that sufficiently strong magnetoelastic coupling can change the ground state of otherwise uniform spin systems to chiral spin configurations. More specifically, we show that, a periodic array of chiral spin textures can spontaneously emerge in a two-dimensional ferromagnetic system on a substrate-even in the absence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. The resulting spin texture resembles a skyrmion-antiskyrmion lattice, characterized by alternating scalar spin chirality and a nonuniform but sign-preserving out-of-plane spin profile. Our analysis reveals that such patterns form naturally when the magnetoelastic interaction is sufficiently strong, while the coupling between flexural phonons and the substrate is sufficiently weak. These findings uncover a previously unexplored mechanism for chiral spin texture formation driven purely by magnetoelastic coupling, signaling at potential utilities of materials with strong magnetoelastic responses.
title Magnetoelastic Coupling-Driven Chiral Spin Textures: A Skyrmion-Antiskyrmion-Like Array
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15511