Suppression of the skyrmion Hall effect in planar nanomagnets by the magnetic properties engineering: Skyrmion transport on nanotracks with magnetic strips

TL;DR

This study uses micromagnetic simulations to demonstrate that strategically modifying magnetic properties in nanotracks can completely suppress the skyrmion Hall effect, enabling controlled skyrmion transport for potential spintronic applications.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel approach of magnetic property engineering in nanotracks to suppress the skyrmion Hall effect, enhancing skyrmion control.

Findings

Skyrmions can be transported along nanotracks with suppressed Hall effect.

Magnetic property modifications can create attractive or repulsive regions for skyrmions.

Six methods are proposed for skyrmion Hall effect suppression using magnetic nanotracks.

Abstract

Micromagnetic simulations have been performed to investigate the suppression of the skyrmion Hall effect in nanotracks with their magnetic properties strategically modified. In particular, we study two categories of magnetically modified nanotracks. One of them, repulsive edges have been inserted in the nanotrack and, in the other, an attractive strip has been placed exactly on the longest axis of the nanotrack. Attractive and repulsive interactions can be generated from the engineering of magnetic properties. For instance, it is known that the skyrmion can be attracted to a region where the exchange stiffness constant is decreased. On the other hand, the skyrmion can be repelled from a region characterized by a local increase in the exchange stiffness constant. In order to provide a background for experimental studies, we vary not only the magnetic material parameters (exchange stiffness, perpendicular magnetocrystalline anisotropy and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya constant) but also the width of the region magnetically modified, containing either a local reduction or a local increase for each one of these magnetic properties. In the numerical simulations, the skyrmion motion was induced by a spin-polarized current and the found results indicate that it is possible to transport skyrmions around the longest axis of the nanotrack. In practice, the skyrmion Hall effect can be completely suppressed in magnetic nanotracks with strategically modified magnetic properties. Furthermore, we discuss in detail 6 ways to suppress the skyrmion Hall effect by the usage of nanotracks with repulsive edges and nanotracks with an attractive strip.