Suppression of the skyrmion Hall effect in synthetic ferrimagnets with gradient magnetization

Magnetic skyrmions are promising building blocks for future spintronic devices. However, the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE) remains an obstacle for practical applications based on the in-line transport of skyrmions. Here, we numerically study the static properties and current-driven dynamics of synthetic ferrimagnetic skyrmions. Inspired by graded-index magnonics, we introduce a linear gradient of saturation magnetization (<a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><a:msub><a:mi>M</a:mi><a:mi mathvariant="normal">s</a:mi></a:msub></a:math>) in the skyrmion-hosting sample, which effectively modulates the skyrmion Hall angle and suppresses the SkHE. Micromagnetic simulations reveal that ferrimagnetic skyrmions could exhibit greater susceptibility to the variation of <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><c:msub><c:mi>M</c:mi><c:mi mathvariant="normal">s</c:mi></c:msub></c:math> as compared to their ferromagnetic counterparts. The Thiele analysis is also applied to support the simulation results, which elucidates that the <e:math xmlns:e="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><e:msub><e:mi>M</e:mi><e:mi mathvariant="normal">s</e:mi></e:msub></e:math> gradient dynamically modifies the intrinsic normalized size of skyrmions, consequently impacting the SkHE. Our results pave the way to the graded-index skyrmionics, which offers novel insights for designing ferrimagnet-based skyrmionic devices. Published by the American Physical Society 2024