Micromagnetic study of excitation modes of an artificial skyrmion crystal

摘要

We present a micromagnetic study on the eigen excitations of an artificial skyrmion crystal, which has been experimentally confirmed to be stable at room temperature without the need of any Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction (DMI). Three in-plane rotational modes and one breathing-type mode are identified. We find the intrinsic origin of the dynamics of skyrmion crystal is the nontri-vial magnetic texture instead of DMI. And the rotational direction of a skyrmion is solely determined by the sign of the skyrmion number, irrespective of its circulation sense, evidencing the topological nature of the magnetic skyrmion.