A quantitative description of skyrmions in ultrathin ferromagnetic films and rigidity of degree 1 harmonic maps from R^2 to S^2

DOI10.1007/S00205-020-01575-7zbMATH Open1466.78007arXiv1912.09854OpenAlexW2995982613MaRDI QIDQ2219477FDOQ2219477

Authors: Anne Bernand-Mantel, Theresa M. Simon, C. B. Muratov 

Publication date: 20 January 2021

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We characterize skyrmions in ultrathin ferromagnetic films as local minimizers of a reduced micromagnetic energy appropriate for quasi two-dimensional materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. The minimization is carried out in a suitable class of two-dimensional magnetization configurations that prevents the energy from going to negative infinity, while not imposing any restrictions on the spatial scale of the configuration. We first demonstrate existence of minimizers for an explicit range of the model parameters when the energy is dominated by the exchange energy. We then investigate the conformal limit, in which only the exchange energy survives and identify the asymptotic profiles of the skyrmions as degree 1 harmonic maps from the plane to the sphere, together with their radii, angles and energies. A byproduct of our analysis is a quantitative rigidity result for degree $pm1$ harmonic maps from the two-dimensional sphere to itself.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09854

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zbMATH Keywords

skyrmionsultrathin ferromagnetic films

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Soliton solutions (35C08) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations (49J20) Electromagnetic effects in solid mechanics (74F15) Thin films (74K35) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

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