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Title: Vortices, skyrmions, and chirality waves in frustrated Mott insulators with a quenched periodic array of impurities

Journal Article · · Physical Review B
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  1. Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo (Japan)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. RIKEN, Saitama (Japan)
  4. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Finite-Q magnetic instabilities are rather common in frustrated magnets. When the magnetic susceptibility is maximized at multiple-Q vectors related through lattice symmetry operations, exotic magnetic orderings such as vortex and skyrmion crystals may follow. Here, we show that a periodic array of nonmagnetic impurities, which can be realized through charge density wave ordering, leads to a rich phase diagram featuring a plethora of chiral magnetic phases, especially when there is a simple relation between the reciprocal vectors of the impurity superlattice and the magnetic Q vectors. We also investigate the effect of changing the impurity concentration or disturbing the impurity array with small quenched randomness. Lastly, alternative realizations of impurity superlattices are briefly discussed.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1345166
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1331722
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-16-25628; PRBMDO; TRN: US1701266
Journal Information:
Physical Review B, Vol. 94, Issue 17; ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 33 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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Skyrmion Crystals and Phase Transitions in Magneto-Ferroelectric Superlattices: Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya Interaction in a Frustrated J1 − J2 Model journal December 2019
Skyrmion dynamics in a frustrated ferromagnetic film and current-induced helicity locking-unlocking transition text January 2017
Effective bilinear-biquadratic model for noncoplanar ordering in itinerant magnets text January 2017
Field-induced pseudo-skyrmion phase in the antiferromagnetic kagome lattice text January 2019
Skyrmion Crystal and Phase Transition in Magneto-Ferroelectric Superlattices: Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in a Frustrated $J_1-J_2$ Model text January 2019

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