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  • Title: Current-induced viscoelastic topological unwinding of metastable skyrmion strings.
    Author: Kagawa F, Oike H, Koshibae W, Kikkawa A, Okamura Y, Taguchi Y, Nagaosa N, Tokura Y.
    Journal: Nat Commun; 2017 Nov 06; 8(1):1332. PubMed ID: 29109474.
    Abstract:
    In the MnSi bulk chiral magnet, magnetic skyrmion strings of 17 nm in diameter appear in the form of a lattice, penetrating the sample thickness, 10-1000 μm. Although such a bundle of skyrmion strings may exhibit complex soft-matter-like dynamics when starting to move under the influence of a random pinning potential, the details remain highly elusive. Here, we show that a metastable skyrmion-string lattice is subject to topological unwinding under the application of pulsed currents of 3-5 × 106 A m-2 rather than being transported, as evidenced by measurements of the topological Hall effect. The critical current density above which the topological unwinding occurs is larger for a shorter pulse width, reminiscent of the viscoelastic characteristics accompanying the pinning-creep transition observed in domain-wall motion. Numerical simulations reveal that current-induced depinning of already segmented skyrmion strings initiates the topological unwinding. Thus, the skyrmion-string length is an element to consider when studying current-induced motion.
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