Contributor info: Dr Zhentao Wang

Zhentao Wang, Cristian D. Batista

SciPost Phys. 15, 161 (2023) · published 13 October 2023 | Toggle abstract · pdf

We present a systematic study of the formation of skyrmion crystals in a triangular Kondo Lattice model for generic electron filling fractions. Our results indicate that the four-sublattice chiral antiferromagnetic ordering that was reported more than one decade ago can be understood as the dense limit of a sequence of skyrmion crystals whose lattice parameter is dictated by the Fermi wave-vector. This observation has important implications for the ongoing search of skyrmion crystals in metallic materials with localized magnetic moments.