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ArticleNature communications2024

Homochiral antiferromagnetic merons, antimerons and bimerons realized in synthetic antiferromagnets.

Mona Bhukta, Takaaki Dohi, Venkata Krishna Bharadwaj, Ricardo Zarzuela, Maria-Andromachi Syskaki, Michael Foerster, Miguel Angel Niño, Jairo Sinova, Robert Frömter, Mathias Kläui

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Mona BhuktaInstitute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7745-8560
Takaaki DohiInstitute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany. tdohi@tohoku.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1628-0097
Venkata Krishna BharadwajInstitute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany.
Ricardo ZarzuelaInstitute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany.
Maria-Andromachi SyskakiInstitute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2261-7653
Michael FoersterALBA Synchrotron Light Facility, 08290, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4147-6668
Miguel Angel NiñoALBA Synchrotron Light Facility, 08290, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3692-147X
Jairo SinovaInstitute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany.
Robert FrömterInstitute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany. froemter@uni-mainz.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3399-5628
Mathias KläuiInstitute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany. klaeui@uni-mainz.de.

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Abstract

The ever-growing demand for device miniaturization and energy efficiency in data storage and computing technology has prompted a shift towards antiferromagnetic topological spin textures as information carriers. This shift is primarily owing to their negligible stray fields, leading to higher possible device density and potentially ultrafast dynamics. We realize in this work such chiral in-plane topological antiferromagnetic spin textures namely merons, antimerons, and bimerons in synthetic antiferromagnets by concurrently engineering the effective perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, the interlayer exchange coupling, and the magnetic compensation ratio. We demonstrate multimodal vector imaging of the three-dimensional Néel order parameter, revealing the topology of those spin textures and a globally well-defined chirality, which is a crucial requirement for controlled current-induced dynamics. Our analysis reveals that the interplay between interlayer exchange and interlayer magnetic dipolar interactions plays a key role to significantly reduce the critical strength of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction required to stabilize topological spin textures, such as antiferromagnetic merons, in synthetic antiferromagnets, making them a promising platform for next-generation spintronics applications.

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