Relation of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction to spin currents and to the spin-orbit field

F Freimuth, S Blügel, Y Mokrousov - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Starting from the general Berry phase theory of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI)
we derive an expression for the linear contribution of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) …

Making the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction visible

A Hrabec, M Belmeguenai, A Stashkevich… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Brillouin light spectroscopy is a powerful and robust technique for measuring the interfacial
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in thin films with broken inversion symmetry. Here, we …

Chiral magnetism of magnetic adatoms generated by Rashba electrons

J Bouaziz, M dos Santos Dias, A Ziane… - New Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate long-range chiral magnetic interactions among adatoms mediated by surface
states spin-splitted by spin–orbit coupling. Using the Rashba model, the tensor of exchange …

Chiral damping, chiral gyromagnetism, and current-induced torques in textured one-dimensional Rashba ferromagnets

F Freimuth, S Blügel, Y Mokrousov - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We investigate Gilbert damping, spectroscopic gyromagnetic ratio, and current-induced
torques in the one-dimensional Rashba model with an additional noncollinear magnetic …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental verification of the rotational type of chiral spin spiral structures by spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy

M Haze, Y Yoshida, Y Hasegawa - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
We report on experimental verification of the rotational type of chiral spin spirals in Mn thin
films on a W (110) substrate using spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) …

Role of the substrate in the formation of chiral magnetic structures driven by the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

M Haze, Y Yoshida, Y Hasegawa - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We report on the experimental verification of the rotational sense of homogeneous and
antiferromagnetic spin spiral structures observed on mono-and double-layer Mn thin films …

Charge pumping driven by the laser-induced dynamics of the exchange splitting

F Freimuth, S Blügel, Y Mokrousov - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We show that electric currents are induced in inversion asymmetric ferromagnets if the
exchange splitting varies in time after excitation by laser pulses. We interpret this …

Chiral and topological orbital magnetism of spin textures

FR Lux, F Freimuth, S Blügel, Y Mokrousov - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Using a semiclassical Green's function formalism, we discover the emergence of chiral and
topological orbital magnetism in two-dimensional chiral spin textures by explicitly finding the …

Magnetic skyrmions and spin spirals inultrathin films and canted magnetic fields

L Schmidt - 2017 - ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de
The competition of exchange interaction, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), magnetic
anisotropy and external magnetic fields leads to the emergence of non-collinear magnetic …

[HTML][HTML] Discovery and Manipulation of Individual Skyrmions in Ultrathin Magnetic Films

N Romming - 2017 - ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de
Modern data storage technology is facing the inevitable obstacle that soon, the currently
available storage capacities cannot simply be extended by a continued miniaturisation …