Triple-meron crystal in high-spin Kitaev magnets

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/ACB5BBzbMATH Open1510.81158arXiv2202.02753MaRDI QIDQ6042476FDOQ6042476

Qiang Luo, Bin Xi, Author name not available (Why is that?), Chenglong Jia, Ken Chen, Hong-Gang Luo, Jize Zhao, Author name not available (Why is that?)

Publication date: 10 May 2023

Published in: New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Spin textures with nontrivial topology hold great promise in future spintronics applications since they are robust against local deformations. The meron, as one of such spin textures, is widely believed to appear in pairs due to its topological equivalence to a half skyrmion. Motivated by recent progresses in high-spin Kitaev magnets, here we investigate numerically a classical Kitaev-$Gamma$ model with a single-ion anisotropy. An exotic spin texture including three merons is discovered. Such a state features a peculiar property with an odd number of merons in one magnetic unit cell and it can induce the topological Hall effect.Therefore, these merons cannot be dissociated from skyrmions as reported in the literature and a general mechanism for such a deconfinement phenomenon calls for further studies. Our work demonstrates that high-spin Kitaev magnets can host robust unconventional spin textures and thus they offer a versatile platform not only for exploring exotic states in spintronics but also for understanding the deconfinement mechanism in the condensed-matter physics and the field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02753

zbMATH Keywords

topological Hall effectKitaev magnetsmeron crystalnoncollinear spin textures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Higher spin theories (81T11)

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