Stabilization of Biskyrmions by chiral interaction in centrosymmetric magnets

TL;DR

This paper uncovers a microscopic mechanism for stabilizing biskyrmions in centrosymmetric magnets through chiral interactions induced by external magnetic fields in a minimal spin lattice model.

Contribution

It introduces a new understanding of how chiral magnetic interactions stabilize biskyrmions in a minimal classical spin model derived from Mott insulators.

Findings

Chiral magnetic interactions induce biskyrmions above a critical strength.

The size of biskyrmions depends on the strength of the chiral interaction.

External magnetic fields can promote the formation of biskyrmions.

Abstract

We report a microscopic mechanism for stabilization of biskyrmions in nature by investigating a minimal classical spin lattice model with nearest neighbour ferromagnetic Heisenberg exchange and static chiral magnetic interaction on the triangular lattice. The model is physically motivated model from the Mott insulators with broken time-reversal symmetry, that is, in the large-$U$ limit of the one band Hubbard model at half-filling on a two-dimensional lattice in the presence of external magnetic field. At order $1/U^{2}$, the external magnetic field can induce a chiral interaction between the three neighbouring spins. We demonstrate that the chiral magnetic interaction results in biskyrmion states above a critical value and its strength affects the size of biskyrmions forming.