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Signatures of a liquid-crystal transition in spin-wave excitations of skyrmions
Communications Physics ( IF 5.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 , DOI: 10.1038/s42005-020-00489-w
Narayan Mohanta , Andrew D. Christianson , Satoshi Okamoto , Elbio Dagotto

Understanding the spin-wave excitations of chiral magnetic order, such as the skyrmion crystal (SkX), is of fundamental interest to confirm such exotic magnetic order. The SkX is realized by competing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and ferromagnetic-exchange interactions with a magnetic field or anisotropy. Here, we compute the dynamical spin structure factor, using Monte Carlo and spin dynamics simulations, extracting the spin-wave spectrum in the SkX, in the vicinity of the paramagnet to SkX transition. Inside the SkX, we find six spin-wave modes, which are supplemented by another mode originating from the ferromagnetic background. Above the critical temperature Ts for the skyrmion crystallization, we find a diffusive regime, reminiscent of the liquid-to-crystal transition, revealing that topological spin texture of skyrmionic character starts to develop above Ts as the precursor of the SkX. We discuss the opportunities for the detection of the spin waves of the SkX using inelastic-neutron-scattering experiments in manganite-iridate heterostructures.



中文翻译:

天体离子自旋波激发中液晶跃迁的特征

了解手性磁阶的自旋波激发,例如天蝎子晶体(SkX),对于确认这种奇异的磁阶具有重要的意义。通过竞争Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya和具有磁场或各向异性的铁磁交换相互作用来实现SkX。在这里,我们使用蒙特卡洛(Monte Carlo)和自旋动力学模拟计算动态自旋结构因子,提取顺磁体到SkX跃迁附近的SkX中的自旋波谱。在SkX内,我们发现了六个自旋波模式,这些模式又被源自铁磁背景的另一种模式所补充。高于临界温度T s对于天蝎子的结晶,我们发现了一种扩散机制,让人联想到液晶的转变,这表明天蝎子特征的拓扑自旋结构开始在T s之上发展为SkX的前体。我们讨论了锰-铱酸盐异质结构中使用非弹性中子散射实验检测SkX自旋波的机会。

更新日期:2020-12-11
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