Title
Magnetic skyrmion states in cobalt nanodisk
Date Issued
15 October 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Internal magnetic states and changes in the texture of the magnetization in cobalt nanodisks have been studied using micromagnetic simulations under two different initial conditions: a nucleated Bloch type skyrmion placed at the center of the cobalt disk and displaced 32 nm from the center. Analysis of simulation results clearly demonstrates that variations in values of the anisotropy (Ku) and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) constants have strong influence on the internal magnetic states and the energy terms of the cobalt nanodisk. Of interest is the nucleation and stability of magnetic skyrmions as a function of the DMI constant. Micromagnetic analysis suggest that the interplay between demagnetizing, exchange and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya energies induces a diagram with different textures of the magnetization including the Bloch and Néel type skyrmions, incomplete skyrmion and skyrmionium. If the initial Bloch skyrmion state is displaced 32 nm from the center, the diagram for the texture of the magnetization changes, creating a cycloid state for higher values of the DMI constant. The results have been discussed in function of the competition between the energy terms, and the initial magnetic states.
Volume
512
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85085188327
Source
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
ISSN of the container
03048853
Source funding
Sponsor(s)
We thank the OGI - Vicerrectorado de Investigación, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Perú), and the project number FC-FI-25-2020. Gallegos would like to express his thanks to the Fondecyt project number 167-2015 (Concytec, Perú).
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