Frustration-stabilised high-field skyrmions

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Magnetic skyrmions are nanometric topological vortex-like spin textures that appear in select materials and have lately attracted a lot of attention due to their numerous potential applications. Having recently demonstrated that muSR is a powerful method for studying skyrmion dynamics, we propose to use it to investigate the dynamics in the newly-discovered skyrmion phase in Gd2PdSi3, the first centrosymmetric skyrmion material. As skyrmions in Gd2PdSi3 arise from geometrical frustration, rather than from noncentrosymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, we expect a unique dynamical signature. This Rapid Access proposal will help elucidate the novel skyrmion-stabilising mechanism in Gd2PdSi3 and will complement our planned first-ever NMR study of skyrmions. As the first proposal by this PI it will kick-start his research, as he only recently moved to Durham on a short contract.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98000151
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98000151
Provenance
Creator Dr Francis Pratt; Dr Kevin Franke; Dr Thomas Hicken; Dr Mark Telling; Dr Ben Huddart; Dr Ales Stefancic; Dr Murray Wilson; Professor Geetha Balakrishnan; Dr Matjaz Gomilsek; Professor Tom Lancaster
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-09-16T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-09-18T08:00:00Z