Supercurrent-induced skyrmion dynamics and tunable Weyl points in chiral magnet with superconductivity

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Recent studies show superconductivity provides new perspectives on spintronics. We study a heterostructure composed of an s-wave superconductor and a cubic chiral-magnet that can stabilize a topological spin texture, a skyrmion. We propose a supercurrent-induced spin torque that originates from the spin-orbit coupling, and we show that the spin torque can drive a skyrmion in an efficient way that reduces Joule heating. We also study the band structure of Bogoliubov quasiparticles and show the existence of Weyl points, whose positions can be controlled by the direction of the magnetization. This results in an effective magnetic field acting on the quasiparticles in the presence spin textures. Furthermore, the tilt of the Weyl cones can also be tuned by the strength of the spin-orbit coupling, and we propose a possible realization of type-II Weyl points.

An appendix is added. 10 pages, 6 figures

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  • Physical Review B

    Physical Review B 94 (23), 2016-12-06

    American Physical Society (APS)

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