Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Intrinsic stability of magnetic anti-skyrmions in the tetragonal inverse Heusler compound Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn

  • Rana Saha,
  • Abhay K. Srivastava,
  • Tianping Ma,
  • Jagannath Jena,
  • Peter Werner,
  • Vivek Kumar,
  • Claudia Felser,
  • Stuart S. P. Parkin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13323-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Magnetic anti-skyrmions—chiral spin textures that could find applications in spintronics—have been recently observed in inverse tetragonal Heusler Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn. Here, the authors observe anti-skyrmions in thin films of Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn over a wide range of temperature and magnetic fields.