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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 21(109), 2012

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.217201

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Inertia and Chiral Edge Modes of a Skyrmion Magnetic Bubble

Journal article published in 2012 by Imam Makhfudz, Benjamin Krüger, Oleg Tchernyshyov ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

The dynamics of a vortex in a thin-film ferromagnet resembles the motion of a charged massless particle in a uniform magnetic field. Similar dynamics is expected for other magnetic textures with a nonzero Skyrmion number. However, recent numerical simulations reveal that Skyrmion magnetic bubbles show significant deviations from this model. We show that a Skyrmion bubble possesses inertia and derive its mass from the standard theory of a thin-film ferromagnet. In addition to center-of-mass motion, other low energy modes are waves on the edge of the bubble traveling with different speeds in opposite directions.