Elliptical Bloch skyrmion chiral twins in an antiskyrmion system

Skyrmions and anti-skyrmions often exist in distinct material systems. Here, the authors observe elliptical skyrmions and anti-skyrmions with opposite topological charges in one tetragonal Heusler compound Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn with D 2d symmetry.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jagannath Jena, Börge Göbel, Tianping Ma, Vivek Kumar, Rana Saha, Ingrid Mertig, Claudia Felser, Stuart S. P. Parkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14925-6