Skyrmion crystals in the triangular Kondo lattice model

Wang, Zhentao; Batista, Christian D.

doi:10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.4.161

Title: Skyrmion crystals in the triangular Kondo lattice model

Journal Article · 12 October 2023 · SciPost Physics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.4.161 · OSTI ID:2202299

Wang, Zhentao ^[1]; Batista, Christian D. ^[2]

University of Minnesota, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

We present a systematic study of the formation of skyrmion crystals in a triangular Kondo Lattice model for generic electron filling fractions. Our results indicate that the four-sublattice chiral antiferromagnetic ordering that was reported more than one decade ago can be understood as the dense limit of a sequence of skyrmion crystals whose lattice parameter is dictated by the Fermi wave-vector. This observation has important implications for the ongoing search of skyrmion crystals in metallic materials with localized magnetic moments.

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Journal Information:: SciPost Physics, Journal Name: SciPost Physics Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 15; ISSN 2542-4653

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