Nature Communications (May 2021)

Dipolar-stabilized first and second-order antiskyrmions in ferrimagnetic multilayers

  • Michael Heigl,
  • Sabri Koraltan,
  • Marek Vaňatka,
  • Robert Kraft,
  • Claas Abert,
  • Christoph Vogler,
  • Anna Semisalova,
  • Ping Che,
  • Aladin Ullrich,
  • Timo Schmidt,
  • Julian Hintermayr,
  • Dirk Grundler,
  • Michael Farle,
  • Michal Urbánek,
  • Dieter Suess,
  • Manfred Albrecht

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22600-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Antiskyrmions are topological spin textures with negative vorticity. Like skyrmions, they have considerable technological promise, but have only been stabilised in Heusler compounds. Here, Heigl et al. succeed in stabilising first and second order antiskyrmions in a new class of materials.