Renormalised energy between boundary vortices in thin-film micromagnetics with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Abstract

We consider a three-dimensional micromagnetic model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in a thin-film regime for boundary vortices. In this regime, we prove a dimension reduction result: the nonlocal three-dimensional model reduces to a local two-dimensional Ginzburg–Landau type model in terms of the averaged magnetisation in the thickness of the film. This reduced model captures the interaction between boundary vortices (so-called renormalised energy), that we determine by a Γ-convergence result at the second order and then we analyse its minimisers. They nucleate two boundary vortices whose position depends on the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction.