2022/03/08 by S. Komineas, Komineas, S., P. E. Roy +1 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Theoretical and Computational Physics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2203.04157
openalex publication_date 2022/03/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Breathing oscillations of skyrmions in chiral antiferromagnets can be excited by a temporal modification of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction or magnetocrystalline anisotropy strength. We employ an adiabatic approximation and derive a formula for the potential that directly implies breathing oscillations. We study the nonlinear regime and the features of larger amplitude oscillations. We show that there is a maximum amplitude supported by the potential. As a consequence, we predict theoretically and observe numerically skyrmion annihilation events due to excitation of large amplitude breathing oscillations. The process is efficient when the skyrmion is mildly excited so that its radius initially grows, while the annihilation event is eventually induced by the internal breathing dynamics. We reveal the counter-intuitive property that the skyrmion possesses a nonzero kinetic energy at the moment of its annihilation. Finally, the frequency of small amplitude breathing oscillations is determined.