Micromagnetic study of excitation modes of an artificial skyrmion crystal

2015 
We present a micromagnetic study on the eigen excitations of an artificial skyrmion crystal, which has been experimentally confirmed to be stable at room temperature without the need of any Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction (DMI). Three in-plane rotational modes and one breathing-type mode are identified. We find the intrinsic origin of the dynamics of skyrmion crystal is the nontrivial magnetic texture instead of DMI. And the rotational direction of a skyrmion is solely determined by the sign of the skyrmion number, irrespective of its circulation sense, evidencing the topological nature of the magnetic skyrmion.
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