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1 PublicationExperimental Observation of Exchange-Driven Chiral Effects in Curvilinear Magnetism
Volkov, O.; Kakay, A.; Florian, K.; Mönch, J. I.; Mohamad-Assaad, M.; Faßbender, J.; Makarov, D.
Abstract
The main origin of the chiral symmetry breaking and, thus, for the magnetochiral effects in magnetic materials is associated with an antisymmetric exchange interaction, the intrinsic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Recently, numerous inspiring theoretical works predict that the bending of a thin film to a curved surface is often sufficient to induce similar chiral effects. However, these originate from the exchange or magnetostatic interactions and can stabilize noncollinear magnetic structures or influence spin-wave propagation. Here, we demonstrate that curvature-induced chiral effects are experimentally observable rather than theoretical abstraction and are present even in conventional soft ferromagnetic materials. We show that, by measuring the depinning field of domain walls in the simplest possible curve, a flat parabolic stripe, the effective exchange-driven DMI interaction constant can be quantified. Remarkably, its value can be as high as the interfacial DMI constant for thin films and can be tuned by the parabola’s curvature.
Keywords: Domain walls; Exchange interaction; Ferromagnetism; Magnetiyation switching
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- Ion Beam Center DOI: 10.17815/jlsrf-3-159
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