Phase transition threshold and stability of magnetic skyrmions

DOI10.1007/S00220-023-04779-6MaRDI QIDQ6135929zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Slim Ibrahim, Ikkei Shimizu

Publication date 28 August 2023

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00892

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsmagnetic skyrmionsLandau-Lifshitz energyphase transition: micromagnetics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

Abstract: We examine the stability of vortex-like configuration of magnetization in magnetic materials, so-called the magnetic skyrmion. These correspond to critical points of the Landau-Lifshitz energy with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions. In an earlier work of the D"oring and Melcher, it is known that the skyrmion is a ground state when the coefficient of the DM term is small. In this paper, we prove that there is an explicit critical value of the coefficient above which the skyrmion is unstable, while stable below this threshold. Moreover, we show that in the unstable regime, the infimum of energy is not bounded below, by giving an explicit counterexample with a sort of helical configuration. This mathematically explains the occurrence of phase transition observed in some experiments.

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