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Magnetic bilayer-skyrmions without skyrmion Hall effect
Magnetic skyrmions might be used as information carriers in future advanced memories, logic gates and computing devices. However, there exists an obstacle known as the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE), that is, the skyrmion trajectories bend away from the driving current direction due to the Magnus force...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4735649/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26782905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10293 |
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author | Zhang, Xichao Zhou, Yan Ezawa, Motohiko |
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description | Magnetic skyrmions might be used as information carriers in future advanced memories, logic gates and computing devices. However, there exists an obstacle known as the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE), that is, the skyrmion trajectories bend away from the driving current direction due to the Magnus force. Consequently, the skyrmions in constricted geometries may be destroyed by touching the sample edges. Here we theoretically propose that the SkHE can be suppressed in the antiferromagnetically exchange-coupled bilayer system, since the Magnus forces in the top and bottom layers are exactly cancelled. We show that such a pair of SkHE-free magnetic skyrmions can be nucleated and be driven by the current-induced torque. Our proposal provides a promising means to move magnetic skyrmions in a perfectly straight trajectory in ultra-dense devices with ultra-fast processing speed. |
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spelling | pubmed-47356492016-03-04 Magnetic bilayer-skyrmions without skyrmion Hall effect Zhang, Xichao Zhou, Yan Ezawa, Motohiko Nat Commun Article Magnetic skyrmions might be used as information carriers in future advanced memories, logic gates and computing devices. However, there exists an obstacle known as the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE), that is, the skyrmion trajectories bend away from the driving current direction due to the Magnus force. Consequently, the skyrmions in constricted geometries may be destroyed by touching the sample edges. Here we theoretically propose that the SkHE can be suppressed in the antiferromagnetically exchange-coupled bilayer system, since the Magnus forces in the top and bottom layers are exactly cancelled. We show that such a pair of SkHE-free magnetic skyrmions can be nucleated and be driven by the current-induced torque. Our proposal provides a promising means to move magnetic skyrmions in a perfectly straight trajectory in ultra-dense devices with ultra-fast processing speed. Nature Publishing Group 2016-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4735649/ /pubmed/26782905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10293 Text en Copyright © 2016, Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, Xichao Zhou, Yan Ezawa, Motohiko Magnetic bilayer-skyrmions without skyrmion Hall effect |
title | Magnetic bilayer-skyrmions without skyrmion Hall effect |
title_full | Magnetic bilayer-skyrmions without skyrmion Hall effect |
title_fullStr | Magnetic bilayer-skyrmions without skyrmion Hall effect |
title_full_unstemmed | Magnetic bilayer-skyrmions without skyrmion Hall effect |
title_short | Magnetic bilayer-skyrmions without skyrmion Hall effect |
title_sort | magnetic bilayer-skyrmions without skyrmion hall effect |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4735649/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26782905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10293 |
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