Tunable spin texture transformation with field-free biskyrmion over a broad temperature range in rare-earth ferrimagnets

Abstract

Exploring and discovering various types of skyrmions has enriched the fundamental study and the active skyrmionics aiming at using skyrmions in spintronics due to the advantages of global stability as high-density magnetic information bit. The unique capability to introduce abundant spin structures, physical phenomena, and dynamics due to the interactions of 4f and 3d electrons push the rare-earth–transition metal (RE–TM) magnets into the research frontier again. Herein, the exotic magnetic domain configurations are discovered in traditional ThMn12-type RE–TM magnets. It is clearly demonstrated that the magnetic anisotropy alteration and magnetic coupling between the respective RE and TM sublattices are responsible for the abundant magnetic domain evolution. In particular, the field-free biskyrmions at room temperature and tunable spin texture transformation are successfully obtained via manipulating the in-plane magnetic anisotropy, which has broadened the physical mechanism and application exploration of manipulating ferrimagnetic order to generate topological spin structures in strategic rare-earth magnets.