Vortrag | Physik

SFB 767 Colloquium: Stabilization of magnetic skyrmions by RKKY interactions

Wann
Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2018
15:15 bis 16:30 Uhr

Wo
P 603

Veranstaltet von
U. Nowak, 5315 / W. Belzig, 4782

Vortragende Person/Vortragende Personen:
Prof. Dr. Alexei Kolezhuk, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Institute of Magnetism, NAS of Ukraine

Stabilization of magnetic skyrmions by RKKY interactions

We propose a novel mechanism of stabilizing skyrmions in a magnetic monolayer by placing the system on a conducting substrate (normal metal or graphene) which makes the spins interact via the long-range Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) exchange. It is shown that for a metallic substrate skyrmions can be stabilized by fine-tuning the Fermi surface parameters, while for a graphene substrate the stabilization occurs naturally in several geometries.