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Skyrmion Hall effect with spatially modulated Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction

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The skyrmion Hall effect is theoretically studied in the chiral ferromagnetic film with spatially modulated Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction. Three cases including linear, sinusoidal, and periodic rectangular modulations have been considered, where the increase, decrease, and the periodic modification of the size and velocity of the skyrmion have been observed in the microscopic simulations. These phenomena are well explained by the Thiele equation, where an effective force on the skyrmion is induced by the inhomogeneous Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction. The results here suggest that the skyrmion Hall effect can be manipulated by artificially tuning the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in chiral ferromagnetic film with material engineering methods, which will be useful to design skyrmion-based spintronics devices.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61674083 and 11604162) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Nankai University (No. 63191522).

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Zhou, L., Qin, R., Zheng, YQ. et al. Skyrmion Hall effect with spatially modulated Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction. Front. Phys. 14, 53602 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-019-0897-0

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