2025/09/15 by N. P. Vizarim, J. C. Bellizotti Souza, Vizarim, N. P. +9
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic Properties of Alloys #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2509.12172
openalex publication_date 2025/09/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Many-body interactions strongly influence the structure, stability, and dynamics of condensed-matter systems, from atomic lattices to interacting quasi-particles such as superconducting vortices. Here, we investigate theoretically the pairwise and many-body interaction terms among skyrmions in helimagnets, considering both the ferromagnetic and conical spin backgrounds. Using micromagnetic simulations, we separate the exchange, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya, and Zeeman contributions to the skyrmion-skyrmion pair potential, and show that the binding energy of skyrmions within the conical phase depends strongly on the film thickness. For small skyrmion clusters in the conical phase, three-body interactions make a substantial contribution to the cohesive energy, comparable to that of pairwise terms, while four-body terms become relevant only at small magnetic fields. As the system approaches the ferromagnetic phase, these higher-order contributions vanish, and the interactions become essentially pairwise. Our results indicate that realistic models of skyrmion interactions in helimagnets in the conical phase must incorporate many-body terms to accurately capture the behavior of skyrmion crystals and guide strategies for controlling skyrmion phases and dynamics.