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Strain-Driven Zero-Field Near-10 nm Skyrmions in Two-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures

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Magnetic skyrmions-localized chiral spin structures-show great promise for spintronic applications. The recent discovery of two-dimensional (2D) magnets opened new opportunities for topological spin structures in atomically thin van der Waals (vdW) materials. Despite recent progress in stabilizing metastable skyrmions in 2D magnets, their lifetime, essential for applications, has not been explored yet. Here, using firstprinciples calculations and atomistic spin simulations, we predict that compressive strain leads to stabilizing zero-field skyrmions with diameters close to 10 nm in a Fe 3 GeTe 2 /germanene vdW heterostructure. The origin of these unique skyrmions is attributed to the high tunability of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy by strain, which generally holds for Fe 3 GeTe 2 heterostructures with buckled substrates. Furthermore, we calculate the energy barriers protecting skyrmions against annihilation and their lifetimes using transition-state theory. We show that nanoscale skyrmions in strained Fe 3 GeTe 2 /germanene can be stable for hours at temperatures up to 20 K.
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hal-03783070 , version 1 (21-09-2022)

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Dongzhe Li, Soumyajyoti Haldar, Stefan Heinze. Strain-Driven Zero-Field Near-10 nm Skyrmions in Two-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures. Nano Letters, 2022, ⟨10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03287⟩. ⟨hal-03783070⟩
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