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In this work, we investigated the spin dynamics in a slab of chiral magnets induced by an alternating (ac) spin current. Periodic trajectories of the skyrmion in real space are discovered under the ac current as a result of the Magnus and viscous forces, which originate from the Gilbert damping, the spin transfer torque, and the β-nonadiabatic torque effects. The results are obtained by numerically solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation and can be explained by the Thiele equation characterizing the skyrmion core motion.
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Zhu, R., Zhang, YY. Skyrmion dynamics in a chiral magnet driven by periodically varying spin currents*. Eur. Phys. J. B 89, 262 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2016-70467-9
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