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Magnetostatic Mechanism of Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Multilayer Magnetic Structures

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It is shown that the energy of a ferromagnetic film deposited onto a paramagnetic or superconducting substrate acquires a contribution in the form of the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction. This contribution appears as a result of the magnetostatic interaction of the magnetization of the ferromagnetic film with the magnetization induced by it in a paramagnet or by the supercurrent in the superconductor and leads to the removal of the chiral degeneracy, nonreciprocity of spin waves, and the formation of chiral states such as magnetic skyrmions. Our estimates indicate the possibility of experimental observation of predicted effects.

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  1. The term being omitted is on the order of qh and, hence, cannot be ignored. However, we will henceforth show that the disregard of this term does not lead to significant errors.

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The authors are grateful to M.V. Sapozhnikov, A.S. Mel’nikov, N. I. Polushkin, and I.S. Burmistrov for fruitful discussions.

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This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 21-72-10176)

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This article is prepared for the memorial issue of the journal dedicated to the 95th birthday of L.A. Prozorova.

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Kuznetsov, M.A., Fraerman, A.A. Magnetostatic Mechanism of Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Multilayer Magnetic Structures. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 137, 442–452 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776123100187

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