AIP Advances (May 2018)

Skyrmion crystals: Dynamics and phase transition

  • H. T. Diep,
  • Sahbi El Hog,
  • Aurélien Bailly-Reyre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5006269
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 5
pp. 055707 – 055707-5

Abstract

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We study a crystal of skyrmions generated on a square lattice using a ferromagnetic exchange interaction and a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction between nearest-neighbors under an external magnetic field. The skyrmion crystal has a hexagonal structure which is shown to be stable up to a temperature Tc where a transition to the paramagnetic phase occur. We will show that the dynamics of the skyrmions at T < Tc follows a stretched exponential law.