Fluctuations and Pinning for Individually Manipulated Skyrmions
Abstract
We numerically examine the dynamics of individually dragged skyrmions interacting simultaneously with an array of other skyrmions and quenched disorder. For drives just above depinning, we observe a broadband noise signal with a 1/ f characteristic, while at higher drives, narrowband or white noise appears. Even in the absence of quenched disorder, the threshold force that must be applied to translate the driven skyrmion is finite due to elastic interactions with other skyrmions. The depinning threshold increases as the strength of the quenched disorder is raised. Above the depinning force, the skyrmion moves faster in the presence of quenched disorder than in a disorder-free system since the pinning sites prevent other skyrmions from being dragged along with the driven skyrmion. For strong pinning, we find a stick-slip motion of the driven skyrmion which produces a telegraph noise signature. The depinning threshold increases monotonically with skyrmion density in the absence of quenched disorder, but when pinning is present, the depinning threshold changes nonmonotonically with skyrmion density, and there are reentrant pinned phases due to a competition between pinning induced by the quenched disorder and that produced by the elastic interactions of the skyrmion lattice.
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1833445
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1846915
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-21-28609
Journal ID: ISSN 2296-424X; 767491
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- 89233218CNA000001
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Frontiers in Physics
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- Journal Name: Frontiers in Physics Journal Volume: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2296-424X
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- Frontiers Media SA
- Country of Publication:
- Switzerland
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; skyrmion; dynamic phases; broadband noise; telegraph noise; depinning
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Reichhardt, C. J. O., and Reichhardt, C. Fluctuations and Pinning for Individually Manipulated Skyrmions. Switzerland: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.3389/fphy.2021.767491.
Reichhardt, C. J. O., & Reichhardt, C. Fluctuations and Pinning for Individually Manipulated Skyrmions. Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.767491
Reichhardt, C. J. O., and Reichhardt, C. Tue .
"Fluctuations and Pinning for Individually Manipulated Skyrmions". Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.767491.
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title = {Fluctuations and Pinning for Individually Manipulated Skyrmions},
author = {Reichhardt, C. J. O. and Reichhardt, C.},
abstractNote = {We numerically examine the dynamics of individually dragged skyrmions interacting simultaneously with an array of other skyrmions and quenched disorder. For drives just above depinning, we observe a broadband noise signal with a 1/ f characteristic, while at higher drives, narrowband or white noise appears. Even in the absence of quenched disorder, the threshold force that must be applied to translate the driven skyrmion is finite due to elastic interactions with other skyrmions. The depinning threshold increases as the strength of the quenched disorder is raised. Above the depinning force, the skyrmion moves faster in the presence of quenched disorder than in a disorder-free system since the pinning sites prevent other skyrmions from being dragged along with the driven skyrmion. For strong pinning, we find a stick-slip motion of the driven skyrmion which produces a telegraph noise signature. The depinning threshold increases monotonically with skyrmion density in the absence of quenched disorder, but when pinning is present, the depinning threshold changes nonmonotonically with skyrmion density, and there are reentrant pinned phases due to a competition between pinning induced by the quenched disorder and that produced by the elastic interactions of the skyrmion lattice.},
doi = {10.3389/fphy.2021.767491},
journal = {Frontiers in Physics},
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year = {Tue Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2021},
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.767491
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