Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Elliptical Bloch skyrmion chiral twins in an antiskyrmion system

  • Jagannath Jena,
  • Börge Göbel,
  • Tianping Ma,
  • Vivek Kumar,
  • Rana Saha,
  • Ingrid Mertig,
  • Claudia Felser,
  • Stuart S. P. Parkin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14925-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Skyrmions and anti-skyrmions often exist in distinct material systems. Here, the authors observe elliptical skyrmions and anti-skyrmions with opposite topological charges in one tetragonal Heusler compound Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn with D 2d symmetry.