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Spin disorder control of topological spin texture

Hongrui Zhang, Yu‐Tsun Shao, Xiang Chen, Binhua Zhang, Tianye Wang, Fanhao Meng, Kun Xu, Peter Meisenheimer, Xianzhe Chen, Xiaoxi Huang, Piush Behera, Sajid Husain, Tiancong Zhu, Hao Pan, Yanli Jia, Nick Settineri, Nathan Giles-Donovan, Zehao He, A. Schöll, Alpha T. N’Diaye, Padraic Shafer, Archana Raja, Changsong Xu, Lane W. Martin, Michael F. Crommie, Jie Yao, Z. Q. Qiu, Arun Majumdar, L. Bellaïche, David A. Muller, R. J. Birgeneau, R. Ramesh, R. J. Birgeneau, R. Ramesh

2024Nature Communications29 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Abstract Stabilization of topological spin textures in layered magnets has the potential to drive the development of advanced low-dimensional spintronics devices. However, achieving reliable and flexible manipulation of the topological spin textures beyond skyrmion in a two-dimensional magnet system remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate the introduction of magnetic iron atoms between the van der Waals gap of a layered magnet, Fe 3 GaTe 2 , to modify local anisotropic magnetic interactions. Consequently, we present direct observations of the order-disorder skyrmion lattices transition. In addition, non-trivial topological solitons, such as skyrmioniums and skyrmion bags, are realized at room temperature. Our work highlights the influence of random spin control of non-trivial topological spin textures.

Topics & Concepts

Spin (aerodynamics)Texture (cosmology)Condensed matter physicsPhysicsTopology (electrical circuits)Materials scienceComputer scienceMathematicsArtificial intelligenceCombinatoricsThermodynamicsImage (mathematics)Magnetic properties of thin filmsMagneto-Optical Properties and ApplicationsTheoretical and Computational Physics