138 research outputs found
Chiral Magnetic Skyrmions with Arbitrary Topological Charge ("skyrmionic sacks")
We show that continuous and spin-lattice models of chiral ferro- and
antiferromagnets provide the existence of an infinite number of stable soliton
solutions of any integer topological charge. A detailed description of the
morphology of new skyrmions and the corresponding energy dependencies are
provided. The considered model is general, and is expected to predict a
plethora of particle-like states which may occur in various chiral magnets
including atomic layers, e.g., PdFe/Ir(111), rhombohedral GaVS
semiconductor, B20-type alloys as MnFeGe, MnFeSi,
FeCoSi, CuOSeO, acentric tetragonal Heusler compounds
New type of stable particle like states in chiral magnets (Chiral bobbers)
We present a new type of a thermodynamically stable magnetic state at
interfaces and surfaces of chiral magnets. The state is a soliton solution of
micromagnetic equations localized in all three dimensions near a boundary and
contains a singularity, but nevertheless has a finite energy. Both features
combine to a quasi-particle state for which we expect unusual transport and
dynamical properties. It exhibits high thermal stability and thereby can be
considered as promising object for fundamental research and practical
applications in spintronic devices. We provide arguments that such a state can
be found in different B20-type alloys e.g. MnFeGe,
MnFeSi, FeCoSi.Comment: accepted in PR
Interaction of Individual Skyrmions in Nanostructured Cubic Chiral Magnet
We report the direct evidence of field-dependent character of the interaction
between individual magnetic skyrmions as well as between skyrmions and edges in
B20-type FeGe nanostripes observed by means of high resolution Lorentz
transmission electron microscopy. It is shown that above certain critical
values of external magnetic field the character of such long-range skyrmion
interactions change from attraction to repulsion. Experimentally measured
equilibrium inter-skyrmion and skrymion-edge distances as function of applied
magnetic field shows quantitative agreement with the results of micromagnetic
simulations. Important role of demagnetizing fields and internal symmetry of
three-dimensional magnetic skyrmions are discussed in details.Comment: accepted in PR
Exact Self-consistent Particle-like Solutions to the Equations of Nonlinear Scalar Electrodynamics in General Relativity
Exact self-consistent particle-like solutions with spherical and/or
cylindrical symmetry to the equations governing the interacting system of
scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational fields have been obtained. As a
particular case it is shown that the equations of motion admit a special kind
of solutions with sharp boundary known as droplets. For these solutions, the
physical fields vanish and the space-time is flat outside of the critical
sphere or cylinder. Therefore, the mass and the electric charge of these
configurations are zero.Comment: 17 pages, Submitted to the International Journal of Theoretical
Physic
Dynamical Toroidal Hopfions in a Ferromagnet with Easy-Axis Anisotropy
Three-dimensional toroidal precession solitons with a nonzero Hopf index,
which uniformly move along the anisotropy axis in a uniaxial ferromagnet, have
been found. The structure and existence region of the solitons have been
numerically determined by solving the Landau-Lifshitz equation.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Finitely generated free Heyting algebras via Birkhoff duality and coalgebra
Algebras axiomatized entirely by rank 1 axioms are algebras for a functor and
thus the free algebras can be obtained by a direct limit process. Dually, the
final coalgebras can be obtained by an inverse limit process. In order to
explore the limits of this method we look at Heyting algebras which have mixed
rank 0-1 axiomatizations. We will see that Heyting algebras are special in that
they are almost rank 1 axiomatized and can be handled by a slight variant of
the rank 1 coalgebraic methods
Coexistence of type-I and type-II superconductivity signatures in ZrB12 probed by muon spin rotation measurements
Superconductors usually display either type-I or type-II superconductivity and the coexistence of these two types in the same material, for example, at different temperatures, is rare in nature. We employed the muon spin rotation (μSR) technique to unveil the superconducting phase diagram of the dodecaboride ZrB12 and obtained clear evidence of both type-I and type-II characteristics. Most important, we found a region showing unusual behavior where the usually mutually exclusive μSR signatures of type-I and type-II superconductivity coexist. We reproduced that behavior in theoretical modeling that required taking into account multiple bands and multiple coherence lengths, which suggests that material has one coherence length larger and another smaller than the magnetic field penetration length (the type-1.5 regime). At stronger fields, a footprint of the type-II mixed state showing square flux-line lattice was also obtained using neutron diffraction
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