  Since the early 1960's, the discovery of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
(DMI) helped to explain the physical mechanisms behind certain magnetic
phenomena, such as net moment in antiferromagnets, or enhanced anisotropy field
from heavy metals impurity in dilute Cu:Mn alloy. Since the researchers unveil
the key role that DMI plays in stabilizing chiral Neel type magnetic domain
wall and magnetic skyrmions, the studies on DMI have received growing interest.
Governed by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and various types of inversion symmetry
breaking (ISB) in magnetic systems, DMI drives the forming of distinct
morphologies of magnetic skyrmions. Our aim is to briefly introduce the
research history of DMI and its significance in the field of modern
spintronics.
