Journal Article

FZJ-2020-05049

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Modeling spin waves in noncollinear antiferromagnets: Spin-flop states, spin spirals, skyrmions, and antiskyrmions

Dos Santos, F. J. (Corresponding author)FZJ* ; dos Santos Dias, M.FZJ* ; Lounis, S.FZJ*

2020
Inst. Woodbury, NY

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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/26402  doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.104436

Abstract: Spin waves in antiferromagnetic materials have great potential for next-generation magnonic technologies. However, their properties and their dependence on the type of ground-state antiferromagnetic structure are still open questions. Here, we investigate theoretically spin waves in one- and two-dimensional model systems with a focus on noncollinear antiferromagnetic textures such as spin spirals and skyrmions of opposite topological charges. We address in particular the nonreciprocal spin excitations recently measured in bulk antiferromagnet α−Cu2V2O7 utilizing inelastic neutron scattering experiments [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 047201 (2017)], where we help to characterize the nature of the detected spin-wave modes. Furthermore, we discuss how the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction can lift the degeneracy of the spin-wave modes in antiferromagnets, resembling the electronic Rashba splitting. We consider the spin-wave excitations in antiferromagnetic spin-spiral and skyrmion systems and discuss the features of their inelastic scattering spectra. We demonstrate that antiskyrmions can be obtained with an isotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in certain antiferromagnets.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Quanten-Theorie der Materialien (IAS-1)
2. Quanten-Theorie der Materialien (PGI-1)
3. JARA-FIT (JARA-FIT)
4. JARA - HPC (JARA-HPC)

Research Program(s):

1. 142 - Controlling Spin-Based Phenomena (POF3-142) (POF3-142)
2. First-principles investigation of single magnetic nano-skyrmions (jias17_20190501) (jias17_20190501)

Appears in the scientific report 2020

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