Modelling the elliptical instability of magnetic skyrmions

Abstract

Two recently developed methods of modelling chiral magnetic soliton elliptical instability are applied in two novel scenarios, the tilted ferromagnetic phase of chiral magnets dominated by easy-plane anisotropy and the general case of the chiral magnet with tilted applied field and arbitrary uniaxial anisotropy. In the former case, the analytical predictions are found to exactly match previous numerical results. In the latter case, instability of isolated chiral skyrmions has not yet been studied, although the predictions correspond interestingly to previous numerical investigation of the phase diagram.