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SYES: Symposium Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory: Focus on Topology and Transport

SYES 3: Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory: Focus on Topology and Transport I

SYES 3.2: Talk

Tuesday, March 8, 2016, 14:30–14:45, H24

Topological orbital magnetic moments — •Manuel dos Santos Dias, Juba Bouaziz, Mohammed Bouhassoune, Stefan Blügel, and Samir Lounis — Peter Grünberg Institut and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich and JARA, D-52425 Jülich, Germany

Orbital magnetic moments are usually associated with the spin-orbit interaction (SOI). We explore from first-principles how topological orbital magnetic moments (TOMs) can emerge in non-trivial magnetic spin textures, even without SOI, justifying the ‘topological’ label. Firstly, the case of magnetic trimers on the Cu(111) surface illustrates the basic symmetry properties of the TOMs, and how to separate their contribution from the usual SOI-driven orbital moments. We then focus on the implications of TOMs for single magnetic skyrmions formed in Pd/Fe/Ir(111) [1], considering their possible use in detecting and distinguishing skyrmions from anti-skyrmions by optical means.
Work funded by the HGF-YIG Programme FunSiLab – Functional Nanoscale Structure Probe and Simulation Laboratory (VH-NG-717).
[1] D.M. Crum et al., Nat. Comms. 6, 8541 (2015)