Antitopological magnetic textures in an antiferromagnetically coupled bilayer with frustration

TL;DR

This paper explores frustration-induced anti-topological bilayer magnetic textures in antiferromagnetically coupled materials, revealing how interlayer coupling influences their stability and dynamics for potential spintronic applications.

Contribution

It presents a general model for anti-topological bilayer textures without external fields, highlighting the role of interlayer coupling in their stability and motion.

Findings

Interlayer coupling prevents distortion of magnetic textures.

Stronger interlayer coupling leads to faster velocity of textures.

The model guides material design for topological magnetic textures.

Abstract

The bilayer skyrmion composed of upper and lower tightly coupled skyrmions on two layers with completely compensated topological charges (called as anti-topology here), has become one feasible improvement of conventional skyrmion to realize straight motion without skyrmion Hall effect, which has aroused great interest in practical applications. The present work investigates a general model (without external magnetic field) for the frustration-induced anti-topological bilayer magnetic textures with rich morphologies, and discusses the modulations of key parameters on the energy barrier and the current-driven dynamics. It is revealed that the interlayer coupling plays a key role in preventing distortion, and thus helps to reach a faster velocity. This model can be realized in various frustrated magnetic materials with antiferromagnetically coupled bilayer, providing a helpful guidance for the material design and application of topological magnetic textures.