Fluctuations and noise signatures of driven magnetic skyrmions
Abstract
Magnetic skyrmions are particlelike objects with topologically protected stability which can be set into motion with an applied current. Using a particle-based model we simulate current-driven magnetic skyrmions interacting with random quenched disorder and examine the skyrmion velocity fluctuations parallel and perpendicular to the direction of motion as a function of increasing drive. We show that the Magnus force contribution to skyrmion dynamics combined with the random pinning produces an isotropic effective shaking temperature. As a result, the skyrmions form a moving crystal at large drives instead of the moving smectic state observed in systems with a negligible Magnus force where the effective shaking temperature is anisotropic. Here, we demonstrate that spectral analysis of the velocity noise fluctuations can be used to identify dynamical phase transitions and to extract information about the different dynamic phases, and show how the velocity noise fluctuations are correlated with changes in the skyrmion Hall angle, transport features, and skyrmion lattice structure.
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1514984
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1373808
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-18-30674
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; PRBMDO
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001; AC52-06NA25396
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Material Science
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Díaz, Sebastián A., Reichhardt, C. J. O., Arovas, Daniel P., Saxena, Avadh, and Reichhardt, C. Fluctuations and noise signatures of driven magnetic skyrmions. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.085106.
Díaz, Sebastián A., Reichhardt, C. J. O., Arovas, Daniel P., Saxena, Avadh, & Reichhardt, C. Fluctuations and noise signatures of driven magnetic skyrmions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.085106
Díaz, Sebastián A., Reichhardt, C. J. O., Arovas, Daniel P., Saxena, Avadh, and Reichhardt, C. Wed .
"Fluctuations and noise signatures of driven magnetic skyrmions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.085106. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1514984.
@article{osti_1514984,
title = {Fluctuations and noise signatures of driven magnetic skyrmions},
author = {Díaz, Sebastián A. and Reichhardt, C. J. O. and Arovas, Daniel P. and Saxena, Avadh and Reichhardt, C.},
abstractNote = {Magnetic skyrmions are particlelike objects with topologically protected stability which can be set into motion with an applied current. Using a particle-based model we simulate current-driven magnetic skyrmions interacting with random quenched disorder and examine the skyrmion velocity fluctuations parallel and perpendicular to the direction of motion as a function of increasing drive. We show that the Magnus force contribution to skyrmion dynamics combined with the random pinning produces an isotropic effective shaking temperature. As a result, the skyrmions form a moving crystal at large drives instead of the moving smectic state observed in systems with a negligible Magnus force where the effective shaking temperature is anisotropic. Here, we demonstrate that spectral analysis of the velocity noise fluctuations can be used to identify dynamical phase transitions and to extract information about the different dynamic phases, and show how the velocity noise fluctuations are correlated with changes in the skyrmion Hall angle, transport features, and skyrmion lattice structure.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.96.085106},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 8,
volume = 96,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 02 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Aug 02 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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FIG. 1: (a) Real-space snapshot of the simulated system. Open black circles indicate pinning sites and filled blue dots indicate the instantaneous skyrmion positions. (b) Diagram illustrating the relationship between the driving force $F$$D$$\hat{x}$ applied along the $x$ direction and the instantaneous skyrmion velocity V averaged over all skyrmions. Themore »
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