We have demonstrated the possibility to control the otherwise robust magnetic properties of transition-metal phosphorus trisulfides ($\text{Mn/Fe}\text{/}\mathrm{NiP}{\mathrm{S}}_3$) in their heterostructures with Weyl semimetallic $\mathrm{Mo}{\mathrm{Te}}_2$ which can be attributed to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions at the interface of the two materials. While the DM interaction is known to scale with the strength of the spin-orbit coupling (SOC), we demonstrate using experiments on heterostructures with a variety of substrates (underlayers) hosting variable SOC and electronic density of states (DOS) that the effect of DM interaction strongly varies with the electronic DOS of the SOC-hosting layer as well as the spin orientation and degree of anisotropy associated with the magnetic layer.

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• Density of states
• Magnetism
• Optical phonons
• Spin-orbit coupling
• Topological materials
• 2-dimensional systems
• Interfaces
• Magnetic thin films
• Weyl semimetal
• Raman spectroscopy