Evidence for a single-layer van der Waals multiferroic

Q Song, CA Occhialini, E Ergeçen, B Ilyas, D Amoroso… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Multiferroic materials have attracted wide interest because of their exceptional static,–and
dynamical,–magnetoelectric properties. In particular, type-II multiferroics exhibit an inversion …

Spontaneous antiferromagnetic skyrmion/antiskyrmion lattice and spiral spin-liquid states in the frustrated triangular lattice

M Mohylna, FA Gómez Albarracín, M Žukovič… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasiparticles of great interest for data storage
applications because of their small size, high stability, and ease of manipulation via electric …

Helicity locking of a square skyrmion crystal in a centrosymmetric lattice system without vertical mirror symmetry

S Hayami, R Yambe - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We theoretically investigate the stability of a square skyrmion crystal (SkX) in a
centrosymmetric tetragonal lattice structure with the emphasis on the role of the magnetic …

Effective spin model in momentum space: Toward a systematic understanding of multiple- instability by momentum-resolved anisotropic exchange interactions

R Yambe, S Hayami - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Multiple-Q magnetic states, such as a skyrmion crystal, become a source of unusual
transport phenomena and dynamics. Recent theoretical and experimental studies clarified …

Multifarious skyrmion phases on a trilayer triangular lattice

S Hayami - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The instability toward a magnetic skyrmion crystal in centrosymmetric trilayer magnets is
investigated based on a spin model with layer-dependent Dzayloshinskii-Moriya interaction …

Microscopic origin of magnetism in monolayer transition metal dihalides

K Riedl, D Amoroso, S Backes, A Razpopov… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Motivated by the recent wealth of exotic magnetic phases emerging in two-dimensional
frustrated lattices, we investigate the origin of possible magnetism in the monolayer family of …

Locking of skyrmion cores on a centrosymmetric discrete lattice: Onsite versus offsite

S Hayami, R Yambe - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
A magnetic skyrmion crystal (SkX) with a swirling spin configuration, which is one of
topological spin crystals as a consequence of an interference between multiple spin density …

Skyrmion crystals in centrosymmetric triangular magnets under hexagonal and trigonal single-ion anisotropy

S Hayami - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
We theoretically report an instability toward a skyrmion crystal in centrosymmetric magnets
under hexagonal and trigonal single-ion anisotropy. The results are obtained for a minimal …

Ferroaxial moment induced by vortex spin texture

S Hayami - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The nature of an electric ferroaxial moment characterizing a time-reversal-even axial-vector
quantity is theoretically investigated under magnetic orderings. We clarify that a vortex spin …

From chiral spin liquids to skyrmion fluids and crystals, and their interplay with itinerant electrons

FA Gómez Albarracín, HD Rosales, M Udagawa… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The physics of skyrmions, and in particular the issue of how to isolate and manipulate them
individually, is a subject of major importance nowadays in the community of magnetism. In …