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Heinen, Lukas ORCID: 0000-0001-6638-7031 (2021). Chiral Magnets in and out of Equilibrium. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

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Abstract

In ordinary ferromagnets, individual magnetic moments tend to align with their neighbors, as long as temperatures are below the critical Curie temperature of the material. Cubic chiral magnets are a class of dominantly ferromagnetic, or rarer ferrimagnetic, materials with a literal twist. Due to broken inversion symmetry, weak spin-orbit coupling can induce a competing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, which twists the magnetic texture into helical structures. One of these textures is of special interest to us. In it, the magnetization twists into whirl-like topological structures, called skyrmions. Here, we will explore various aspects of the equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of chiral magnets.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD thesis)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Heinen, Lukas UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6638-7031 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-536343
Date:	14 October 2021
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Physics > Institute for Theoretical Physics
Subjects:	Natural sciences and mathematics Physics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language chiral magnets English magnetism English skyrmions UNSPECIFIED
Date of oral exam:	21 October 2020
Referee:	Name Academic Title Rosch, Achim Prof. Dr. Trebst, Simon Prof. Dr.
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/53634