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Title: Shear banding, intermittency, jamming, and dynamic phases for skyrmions in inhomogeneous pinning arrays

Abstract

In this work, we examine driven skyrmion dynamics in systems with inhomogeneous pinning where a strip of strong pinning coexists with a region containing no pinning. For driving parallel to the strip, we find that the initial skyrmion motion is confined to the unpinned region and the skyrmion Hall angle is zero. At larger drives, a transition occurs to a phase in which motion also appears within the pinned region, creating a shear band in the skyrmion velocity, while the skyrmion Hall angle is still zero. As the drive increases further, the flow becomes disordered and the skyrmion Hall angle increases with drive until saturating at the highest drives when the system transitions into a moving crystal phase. The different dynamic phases are associated with velocity and density gradients across the pinning boundaries. We map out the dynamic phases as a function of pinning strength, skyrmion density, and Magnus force strength, and correlate the phase boundaries with features in the velocity-force curves and changes in the local and global ordering of the skyrmion structure. For large Magnus forces, the shear banding instability is replaced by large-scale intermittent flow in the pinned region accompanied by simultaneous motion perpendicular to the directionmore » of the drive, which appears as oscillations in the transport curves. We also examine the case of a drive applied perpendicular to the strip, where we find a jamming effect in which the skyrmion flow is blocked by skyrmion-skyrmion interactions until the drive is large enough to induce plastic flow.« less

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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1819150
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OSTI ID: 1600061
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-19-31466
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; TRN: US2214072
Grant/Contract Number:  
89233218CNA000001; 892333218NCA000001
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 5; 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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Reichhardt, Charles, and Reichhardt, Cynthia Jane. Shear banding, intermittency, jamming, and dynamic phases for skyrmions in inhomogeneous pinning arrays. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.101.054423.
Reichhardt, Charles, & Reichhardt, Cynthia Jane. Shear banding, intermittency, jamming, and dynamic phases for skyrmions in inhomogeneous pinning arrays. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.101.054423
Reichhardt, Charles, and Reichhardt, Cynthia Jane. Tue . "Shear banding, intermittency, jamming, and dynamic phases for skyrmions in inhomogeneous pinning arrays". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.101.054423. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1819150.
@article{osti_1819150,
title = {Shear banding, intermittency, jamming, and dynamic phases for skyrmions in inhomogeneous pinning arrays},
author = {Reichhardt, Charles and Reichhardt, Cynthia Jane},
abstractNote = {In this work, we examine driven skyrmion dynamics in systems with inhomogeneous pinning where a strip of strong pinning coexists with a region containing no pinning. For driving parallel to the strip, we find that the initial skyrmion motion is confined to the unpinned region and the skyrmion Hall angle is zero. At larger drives, a transition occurs to a phase in which motion also appears within the pinned region, creating a shear band in the skyrmion velocity, while the skyrmion Hall angle is still zero. As the drive increases further, the flow becomes disordered and the skyrmion Hall angle increases with drive until saturating at the highest drives when the system transitions into a moving crystal phase. The different dynamic phases are associated with velocity and density gradients across the pinning boundaries. We map out the dynamic phases as a function of pinning strength, skyrmion density, and Magnus force strength, and correlate the phase boundaries with features in the velocity-force curves and changes in the local and global ordering of the skyrmion structure. For large Magnus forces, the shear banding instability is replaced by large-scale intermittent flow in the pinned region accompanied by simultaneous motion perpendicular to the direction of the drive, which appears as oscillations in the transport curves. We also examine the case of a drive applied perpendicular to the strip, where we find a jamming effect in which the skyrmion flow is blocked by skyrmion-skyrmion interactions until the drive is large enough to induce plastic flow.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.101.054423},
journal = {Physical Review. B},
number = 5,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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