Elusive Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Fe 3 GeTe 2 monolayer

Slimane Laref (1) , Kyoung-Whan Kim (2) , Aurélien Manchon (3, 1)

1 KAUST - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology [Saudi Arabia]
2 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
3 CINaM - Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille

Using symmetry analysis and density functional theory calculations, we uncover the nature of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Fe3GeTe2 monolayer. We show that while such an interaction might result in small distortions of the magnetic texture on the short range, on the long range Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction favors in-plane Néel spin-spirals along equivalent directions of the crystal structure. Whereas our results show that the observed Néel skyrmions cannot be explained by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction at the monolayer level, they suggest that canted magnetic texture shall arise at the boundary of Fe3GeTe2 nanoflakes or nanoribbons and, most interestingly, that homochiral planar magnetic textures could be stabilized.

Domaines: Physique [physics]

Slimane Laref, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Aurélien Manchon. Elusive Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Fe 3 GeTe 2 monolayer. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2020. ⟨hal-02948593⟩