Late stages in the ordering of magnetic skyrmion lattices

Abstract

The late-stage ordering of interacting magnetic skyrmions is studied numerically through extensive Langevin molecular dynamics simulations. Defining skyrmion displacements that change the connectivity of cells obtained in a Voronoi tesselation as events, we investigate event histograms as a function of the time elapsed since preparing the system as well as the histograms of consecutive events as a function of the time separating these two events. These histograms, which provide unique insights into the transient properties during the ordering process of skyrmion matter, show a characteristic behavior that allows the Magnus-force dominated regime, where the Magnus force accelerates the relaxation process, to be distinguished from the noise-dominated regime, where the Magnus force enhances the effects of thermal noise. In the Magnus-force dominated regime the different histograms display power-law tails with exponents that depend on the strength of the Magnus force.