Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Slowdown of photoexcited spin dynamics in the non-collinear spin-ordered phases in skyrmion host GaV4S8

  • Fumiya Sekiguchi,
  • Kestutis Budzinauskas,
  • Prashant Padmanabhan,
  • Rolf B. Versteeg,
  • Vladimir Tsurkan,
  • István Kézsmárki,
  • Francesco Foggetti,
  • Sergey Artyukhin,
  • Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30829-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Skyrmions are a topological magnetic texture that have garnered considerable interest for various technological applications. Here, Sekiguchi et al. investigate the ultrafast optical response of GaV4S6, and find a significant reduction in the thermal conductivity in the skyrmion phase.