Fig. 2: Evolution of ρTHE across the phase transition between isolated skyrmions and a disordered skyrmion lattice in T − κ space. | Nature Communications

Fig. 2: Evolution of ρTHE across the phase transition between isolated skyrmions and a disordered skyrmion lattice in T − κ space.

From: Colossal topological Hall effect at the transition between isolated and lattice-phase interfacial skyrmions

Fig. 2

a Phase diagram of skyrmion configurations in T − κ space obtained by varying T and Fe/Co composition. The shaded area in blue is the transition region from isolated skyrmions to a disordered skyrmion lattice revealed by MFM imaging. The spatial evolution of skyrmion configuration is analyzed using Delaunay triangulation: details of the analysis including the nearest-neighbor (NN) coordination number and NN angular orientation can be found in Section 1 of the Supplementary Information5. Details of our estimation of the T-dependent κ are presented in Section 2 of the Supplementary Information. b Evolution of ρTHE with (T, κ). Arrows with dotted lines point to the specific samples in (a) for which ρTHE is studied as a function of T. c Evolution of ρTHE with κ at a fixed T. Arrows with dotted lines point to the various samples in (a) for which ρTHE(κ) is studied at a fixed T. d Schematic T − κ phase diagram illustrating the phase boundary Tc(κ) and the use of the effective temperature \({T}^{\prime}=T\cdot \kappa\) to describe the phase transition. The error bars on ρTHE in (b) and (c) are ≤2 nΩ cm.

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