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Magnetoelastic Coupling-Driven Chiral Spin Textures: A Skyrmion-Antiskyrmion-like Array
1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Physical Review Letters
|March 1, 2026
Summary
Strong magnetoelastic coupling can induce chiral spin textures, like skyrmion-antiskyrmion lattices, in 2D ferromagnetic systems. This occurs without Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, offering new pathways for spintronic material design.
Area of Science:
- Condensed matter physics
- Materials science
- Spintronics
Background:
- Uniform spin systems typically lack intrinsic chirality.
- Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is a common driver of chiral spin textures.
- Magnetoelastic coupling relates magnetic properties to mechanical strain.
Purpose of the Study:
- To theoretically demonstrate a novel mechanism for spontaneous chiral spin texture formation.
- To investigate the role of magnetoelastic coupling in creating skyrmion-like structures.
- To explore conditions for emergent chirality in ferromagnetic systems.
Main Methods:
- Theoretical modeling of a two-dimensional ferromagnetic system on a substrate.
- Analysis of spin configurations under varying magnetoelastic coupling strengths.
- Investigation of the influence of flexural phonon-substrate coupling.
Main Results:
- Sufficiently strong magnetoelastic coupling drives uniform spin systems to chiral configurations.
- Periodic arrays of skyrmion-antiskyrmion lattices emerge spontaneously.
- Chirality formation is independent of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction.
- Emergence is favored by strong magnetoelastic coupling and weak flexural phonon-substrate coupling.
Conclusions:
- Magnetoelastic coupling provides a new, intrinsic mechanism for generating chiral spin textures.
- Emergent skyrmion-antiskyrmion lattices offer potential applications in spintronics.
- Materials with strong magnetoelastic responses are promising for novel magnetic phenomena.
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