Hole doping induced ferromagnetism and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the two-dimensional group-IVA oxides

Peng Li; Yonglong Ga; Qirui Cui; Jinghua Liang; Dongxing Yu; Hongxin Yang

doi:10.1088/1361-648X/acc15c

Hole doping induced ferromagnetism and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the two-dimensional group-IVA oxides

J Phys Condens Matter. 2023 Mar 16;35(20). doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/acc15c.

Authors

Peng Li^{1

2}, Yonglong Ga^{1

2}, Qirui Cui¹, Jinghua Liang¹, Dongxing Yu¹, Hongxin Yang^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, People's Republic of China.
² Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China.
³ National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 36867875
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/acc15c

Abstract

Based on the first-principles calculations, we examine the effect of hole doping on the ferromagnetism and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) for PbSnO₂, SnO₂and GeO₂monolayers. The nonmagnetic to ferromagnetic transition and the DMI can emerge simultaneously in the three two-dimensional IVA oxides. By increasing the hole doping concentration, we find the ferromagnetism can be strengthened for the three oxides. Due to different inversion symmetry breaking, isotropic DMI is found in PbSnO₂, whereas anisotropic DMI presents in SnO₂and GeO₂. More appealingly, for PbSnO₂with different hole concentrations, DMI can induce a variety of topological spin textures. Interestingly, a peculiar feature of synchronously switch of magnetic easy axis and DMI chirality upon hole doping is found in PbSnO₂. Hence, Néel-type skyrmions can be tailored via changing hole density in PbSnO₂. Furthermore, we demonstrate that both SnO₂and GeO₂.with different hole concentrations can host antiskyrmions or antibimerons (in-plane antiskyrmions). Our findings demonstrate the presence and tunability of topological chiral structures in p-type magnets and open up new possibility for spintronics.

Keywords: Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction; anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction; carrier doping; magnetic skyrmions; magnetism; two-dimensional group-IVA oxides.