2012/08/31 by J. S. White, I. Levatić, Ivana Levatić +13 · 4 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Condensed matter physics #Electric field #Lattice (music) #Magnetic field #Magnetic properties of thin films #Multiferroics and related materials #Optics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Scattering #Skyrmion #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.other
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/24/43/432201
12 pages, 4 figures, published version (including final proof corrections). Article is free to download at http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/24/43/432201/
openalex publication_date 2012/10/03 · arxiv created 2012/10/09 · arxiv updated 2015/04/21 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Small-angle neutron scattering has been employed to study the influence of applied electric (E-)fields on the skyrmion lattice in the chiral lattice magnetoelectric Cu(2)OSeO(3). Using an experimental geometry with the E-field parallel to the [111] axis, and the magnetic field parallel to the [11(-)0] axis, we demonstrate that the effect of applying an E-field is to controllably rotate the skyrmion lattice around the magnetic field axis. Our results are an important first demonstration for a microscopic coupling between applied E-fields and the skyrmions in an insulator, and show that the general emergent properties of skyrmions may be tailored according to the properties of the host system.