Strain-Driven Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction for Room-Temperature Magnetic Skyrmions

  • Yuelin Zhang
  • , Jie Liu
  • , Yongqi Dong
  • , Shizhe Wu
  • , Jianyu Zhang
  • , Jie Wang
  • , Jingdi Lu
  • , Andreas Rückriegel
  • , Hanchen Wang
  • , Rembert Duine
  • , Haiming Yu
  • , Zhenlin Luo
  • , Ka Shen
  • , Jinxing Zhang

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Abstract

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in magnets, which is usually derived from inversion symmetry breaking at interfaces or in noncentrosymmetric crystals, plays a vital role in chiral spintronics. Here we report that an emergent Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction can be achieved in a centrosymmetric material, La0.67Sr0.33MnO3, by a graded strain. This strain-driven Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction not only exhibits distinctive two coexisting nonreciprocities of spin-wave propagation in one system, but also brings about a robust room-temperature magnetic skyrmion lattice as well as a spiral lattice at zero magnetic field. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of investigating chiral spintronics in a large category of centrosymmetric magnetic materials.
Original languageEnglish
Article number117204
Pages (from-to)1-7
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume127
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Sept 2021

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