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Hopfions in chiral magnets

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-08-29 v2 Materials Science High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A magnetic Hopfion is a three-dimensional topological soliton that consists of a closed loop of a twisted magnetic Skyrmion string. The results of numerical simulations are presented that demonstrate the existence of a stable Hopfion in a nanocylinder of a chiral magnet and an explicit analytic expression is shown to provide a reasonable approximation to the numerically computed Hopfion. A mechanism is suggested to create the Hopfion from a target Skyrmion by introducing an interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.

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@article{arxiv.1806.06458,
  title  = {Hopfions in chiral magnets},
  author = {Paul Sutcliffe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.06458},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures. v2: published version