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MON: Monday Contributed Sessions

MON 12: Quantum Magnets

MON 12.1: Vortrag

Montag, 8. September 2025, 14:15–14:30, ZHG105

Quantum skyrmions and antiskyrmions in monoaxial chiral magnets — Stefan Liscak, Andreas Haller, Andreas Michels, •Thomas L. Schmidt, and Vladyslav M. Kuchkin — Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Classical monoaxial chiral magnets represent a unique magnetic system that allows for the stabilization of both skyrmions and antiskyrmions of equal energy. Unlike a similar situation in frustrated magnets, the energy landscape here is much simpler, consisting of four states: the saturated ferromagnetic state, spin-spiral, skyrmion, and antiskyrmion. This simplicity makes such systems interesting for potential applications that rely on manipulating these states. We study the quantum analog of the already established classical theory by investigating the low-energy excitation spectra of a spin-1/2 quantum Heisenberg model with monoaxial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Using the density matrix renormalization group method, we establish that such a model supports the existence of skyrmion and antiskyrmion states of equal energy. This degeneracy allows for the existence of a mesoscopic Schrödinger cat state exhibiting properties of both skyrmion and antiskyrmion. To characterize this superposition, we calculate two-point correlation functions that can be measured in neutron scattering experiments. Finally, we introduce a perturbation in the form of a magnetic field gradient to induce a non-trivial time evolution of the superposition state. We study this time evolution using both a numerical variational method and the collective coordinates approach.

Keywords: Quantum skyrmions; Mesoscopic quantum states; Quantum computation