Nanomaterials (Jan 2024)

3D Magnetization Textures: Toroidal Magnetic Hopfion Stability in Cylindrical Samples

  • Konstantin Guslienko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14010125
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
p. 125

Abstract

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Topologically non-trivial magnetization configurations in ferromagnetic materials on the nanoscale, such as hopfions, skyrmions, and vortices, have attracted considerable attention of researchers during the last few years. In this article, by applying the theory of micromagnetism, I demonstrate that the toroidal hopfion magnetization configuration is a metastable state of a thick cylindrical ferromagnetic nanodot or a nanowire of a finite radius. The existence of this state is a result of the competition among exchange, magnetostatic, and magnetic anisotropy energies. The Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya exchange interaction and surface magnetic anisotropy are of second importance for the hopfion stabilization. The toroidal hopfion metastable magnetization configuration may be reached in the process of remagnetizing the sample by applying an external magnetic field along the cylindrical axis.

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