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Hopfions in chiral magnetic trilayers
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Magnetic hopfions are three-dimensional localized topological spin textures characterized by the Hopf invariant. Stable hopfions exist in chiral magnetic trilayers consisting of a middle layer with a weaker perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and two capping layers with a stronger PMA. The middle layer holds a hopfion, and the capping layers prevent the hopfion from dilating. However, the existence criteria for a stable hopfion are not adequately known. Here, we numerically obtain the phase diagram for stable hopfions in the plane of the middle layer thickness and dimensionless parameter kappa which measures the relative strength of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (a chiral exchange interaction) compared with the interactions preferring collinear spin alignment (due to the ferromagnetic exchange interaction and the anisotropy). kappa is also the parameter determining the locality of skyrmions in chiral magnetic films. Our results deepen our understanding of hopfions and provide practical guidance to experimentalists for seeking materials and nanostructures for stable hopfions.
Keywords:
SKYRMION LATTICE
DYNAMICS
KNOTS
RINGS
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