Figure 7
From: Thermal stability and topological protection of skyrmions in nanotracks
Skyrmion destruction mediated by a topological singularity. The sequence shows the snapshots of the energy band images for an nanotrack system of DMI constant D = 0.721 meV, described by a hexagonally arranged discrete spin lattice. This band corresponds to the annotated curve of Fig. 6a. The left column shows the topological charge density, the middle sequence the DMI energy density per lattice site and the right column the corresponding magnetisation fields. The hexagonal mesh can be distinguished from the honeycomb shaped data points. The numbers at the top left of every row indicate the image number from the energy band.
