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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus
MA 47: Skyrmions IV
MA 47.7: Talk
Friday, March 31, 2023, 11:15–11:30, HSZ 04
Bloch points in the ground state of chiral magnet nanocylinder — •Andrii Savchenko1, Fengshan Zheng2,3, Nikolai Kiselev1, Luyan Yang1,2, Qianqian Lan1,2, Filipp Rybakov4, Stefan Blügel1, and Rafal Dunin-Borkowski1,2 — 1Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany — 2Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany — 3Spin-X Institute, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 511442, China — 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, SE-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
Experimental observation of Bloch points (BPs) is challenging since these topological defects represent energetically unfavorable configurations and usually appear only as a metastable state. The present study aims to find the systems where due to the competition between short-range and long-range interactions the BPs can emerge in the ground state of the system. A nanocylinder of an isotropic chiral magnet might be a good candidate for such a system. We found that the dipole string - the configuration containing two coupled BPs of opposite topological charge, at some geometrical parameters corresponds to the lowest energy state in such nanocylinder. Our micromagnetic simulations with realistic parameters agree well with the results of the transmission electron microscopy experiment on the FeGe sample.