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ArticleKAUST Department
Material Science and Engineering ProgramPhysical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Spintronics Theory Group
Date
2020-08-05Submitted Date
2020-04-03Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/664565
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Using symmetry analysis and density functional theory calculations, we uncover the nature of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in monolayer Fe3GeTe2. We show that while such an interaction might result in small distortions of the magnetic texture in the short range, in the long range it favors in-plane Néel spin spirals along equivalent directions of the crystal structure. Whereas our results show that the observed Néel skyrmions cannot be explained by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction at the monolayer level, they suggest that a canted magnetic texture shall arise at the boundary of Fe3GeTe2 nanoflakes or nanoribbons and, most interestingly, that homochiral planar magnetic textures could be stabilized.Citation
Laref, S., Kim, K.-W., & Manchon, A. (2020). Elusive Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in monolayer Fe3GeTe2. Physical Review B, 102(6). doi:10.1103/physrevb.102.060402Sponsors
S.L. and A.M. thank G. Bihlmayer, S.Blügel, and A. T. Costa for useful discussions. This work was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) through the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) (Grant No. OSR-2017-CRG6-3390). K.-W.K.acknowledges support from the KIST institutional program and the National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST) (Grant No. CAP-16-01-KIST).Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)Journal
Physical Review BAdditional Links
https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.060402ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1103/physrevb.102.060402