Bloch Chirality Induced by an Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Ferromagnetic Multilayers
- National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore); Univ. of Memphis, TN (United States)
- Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Korea Inst. of Science and Technology, Seoul (South Korea)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
Chiral spin textures stabilized by the interfacial Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction, such as skyrmions and homochiral domain walls, have been shown to exhibit qualities that make them attractive for their incorporation in a variety of spintronic devices. However, for thicker multilayer films, mixed textures occur in which an achiral Bloch component coexists with a chiral Néel component of the domain wall to reduce the demagnetization field at the film surface. We show that an interlayer Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction can break the degeneracy between Bloch chiralities. We further find large population asymmetries and chiral branching in the Bloch component of the domain walls in well-ordered Co/Pd multilayers. This asymmetry is a result of the combined effect of the demagnetization field and an interlayer Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction, and is strongly related to film thickness and structural ordering. This work paves the way toward the utilization of this effect toward controlling Bloch chirality in magnetic multilayers.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704; AC02-98CH10886; CAP-16-01-KIST; 2019M3F3A1A02071509; 2020R1C1C1012664
- OSTI ID:
- 1737423
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-220710-2020-JAAM; TRN: US2205310
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 125, Issue 22; ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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