# Long-wavelength emergent phonons in skyrmion crystals distorted by exchange anisotropy and tilted magnetic fields

## TL;DR

This paper investigates how exchange anisotropy and tilted magnetic fields affect the long-wavelength emergent phonons in skyrmion crystals, revealing tunable vibrational properties crucial for magnonic applications.

## Contribution

It provides a systematic analysis of the influence of anisotropic effects and tilted magnetic fields on the emergent phonons in skyrmion crystals, highlighting their tunability.

## Key findings

- Deformation alters phonon frequency and dispersion relations.
- Tilted magnetic fields enable excitation of all modes except Goldstone mode.
- Structural transitions significantly influence vibrational patterns.

## Abstract

Skyrmion crystals (SkX) are periodic alignment of magnetic skyrmions, i.e., a type of topologically protected spin textures. Compared with ordinary crystals, they can be drastically deformed under anisotropic effects because they are composed of field patterns whose deformation does not cause any bond-breaking. This exotic ductility of SkX bring about great tunability of its collective excitations called emergent phonons, which are vital for magnonics application. The question is how to quantitatively determine the emergent phonons of distorted SkX. Here we systematically study the long wavelength emergent phonons of SkX distorted by (a) a negative exchange anisotropy, and (b) a tilted magnetic field. In both cases, deformation and structural transitions of SkX thoroughly influence the frequency, anisotropy of vibrational pattern and dispersion relation, and coupling between lattice vibration and in-lattice vibration for all modes. Tilted magnetic fields are very effective in tuning the emergent phonons, such that all modes except the Goldstone mode can be excited by AC magnetic fields when a tilted bias field is presented.