Eliminating Skyrmion Hall Effect in Ferromagnetic Skyrmions
Xudan Zhang, Guolin Wan, Jie Zhang, Yanfang Zhang, Jinbo Pan, Shixuan Du
Abstract
Skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE) remains an obstacle for the application of magnetic skyrmions. While methods have been established to cancel or compensate SkHE in artificial antiferromagnets and ferrimagnets, eliminating intrinsic SkHE in ferromagnets is still a big challenge. Here, we propose a strategy to eliminate SkHE by intercalating nonmagnetic elements into van der Waals bilayer ferromagnets featuring in-plane ferromagnetism. The in-plane magnetism, along with a delicate balance among exchange interactions, Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interactions (DMI), and magnetocrystalline anisotropy, creates interlayer bimerons/quadmerons, whose polarity can be controlled by DMI. Opposite DMI in the upper and lower layers results in opposite polarity and topological charge number Q -locking of topological spin texture, therefore, eliminating the SkHE. By intercalating Sr (Ba) in bilayer VSe 2, we identify ten topological magnetic structures with zero topological charge number. Furthermore, we present a phase diagram illustrating diverse magnetic configurations achievable within the bimagnetic atomic layer, offering valuable guidance for future investigations.