Phys.org January 4, 2019
Researchers at MIT present an analytical theory to describe three-dimensional magnetic textures in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic multilayers that arise in the presence of magnetostatic interactions and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). They demonstrated that domain walls in multilayers develop a complex twisted structure, which persists even for films with strong DMI. The origin of this twist is surface-volume stray field interactions that manifest as a depth-dependent effective field whose form mimics the DMI effective field. They found that the wall twist has a minor impact on the equilibrium skyrmion or domain size but can significantly affect current-driven dynamics…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLEÂ
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