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Magnetic skyrmions are swirling spin textures with topologically protected noncoplanarity. Recently, skyrmions with the topological number of unity have been extensively studied in both experiment and theory. We here show that a skyrmion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-24 Ryo Ozawa , Satoru Hayami , Yukitoshi Motome

Ambient magnetic skyrmions stabilized in multilayer nanostructures are of immense interest due to their relevance to magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices for memory and unconventional computing applications. However, existing skyrmionic…

Skyrmions are localized, topologically non-trivial spin structures which have raised high hopes for future spintronic applications. A key issue is skyrmion stability with respect to annihilation into the ferromagnetic state. Energy barriers…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 S. von Malottki , B. Dupé , P. F. Bessarab , A. Delin , S. Heinze

Globally symmetric spinor condensates in free space are argued not to support stable topological defects in either two or three dimensions. In the latter case, however, we show that a topological Skyrmion can be stabilized by forcing it to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor F. Herbut , Masaki Oshikawa

We show that stable Skyrmions exist in two-component atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, in the regime of phase separation. Using full three-dimensional simulations we find the stable Skyrmions with topological charges Q=1 and 2, and compute…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard A. Battye , N. R. Cooper , Paul M. Sutcliffe

We generate a crystal of skyrmions in two dimensions using a Heisenberg Hamiltonian including the ferromagnetic interaction J, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction D, and an applied magnetic field H. The ground state (GS) is determined by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-04 Sahbi El Hog , Aurélien Bailly-Reyre , H. T. Diep

With the hypothesis that all independent degrees of freedom of basic building blocks should be treated equally on the same footing and correlated by a possible maximal symmetry, we arrive at an 4-dimensional space-time unification model. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yue-Liang Wu

In theories with low energy supersymmetry breaking, the effective potential for squarks and sleptons has generically nearly flat directions, V(phi) ~ M^4 (log(phi/M))^n. This guarantees the existence of stable non-topological solitons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Laine , M. Shaposhnikov

We show that stable localized topological soliton textures (skyrmions) with $\pi_2$ topological charge $\nu \geq 1$ exist in a classical 2D Heisenberg model of a ferromagnet with uniaxial anisotropy. For this model the soliton exist only if…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. G. Galkina , E. V. Kirichenko , B. A. Ivanov , V. A. Stephanovich

Magnetic skyrmions can be considered as topologically protected localized vortex-like spin textures. Due to their stability, their small size, and the possibility to move them by low electric currents they are promising candidates for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Martin Stier , Wolfgang Häusler , Thore Posske , Gregor Gurski , Michael Thorwart

We report that in cylindrical nanorods skyrmion chains, i.e., three-dimensional spin textures, emerge dynamically, as revealed by micromagnetic simulations. The skyrmion-chain state occurs when the diameter of the rod is larger than the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Michalis Charilaou , Jörg F. Löffler

It is commonly thought that small couplings in a low-energy theory, such as those needed for the fermion mass hierarchy or proton stability, must originate from symmetries in a high-energy theory. We show that this expectation is violated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Martin Schmaltz

The crystalline structure of nuclear matter is investigated in the standard Skyrme model with massive pions. A semi-analytic method is developed to determine local minima of the static energy functional with respect to variations of both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-17 Derek Harland , Paul Leask , Martin Speight

Magnetic skyrmions are swirling magnetic textures that can be efficiently driven with spin-orbit torques with a deflected trajectory. However, pinning slows skyrmions down and alters their trajectory, which prevents a quantitative…

Skyrmions are stable topological textures that have garnered substantial attention within the ferroelectric community for their exotic functional properties. While previous studies have questioned the feasibility of [001]$_{\text{pc}}$…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-01 Fernando Gómez-Ortiz , Louis Bastogne , Sriram Anand , Miao Yu , Xu He , Philippe Ghosez

A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic texture, could be an ideal element for ultra-dense magnetic memories. Here, we review recent progress in the field of skyrmionics, which is concerned with studies of tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Alexey A. Kovalev , Shane Sandhoefner

Optical skyrmions have recently been constructed by tailoring electric or spin field distributions through the interference of multiple surface plasmon polaritons, offering promising features for advanced information processing, transport…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-11 Zi-Lan Deng , Tan Shi , Alex Krasnok , Xiangping Li , Andrea Alù

The Davey-Stewartson (DS) equations with a perturbation term are presented by taking a fluid system as an example on an uneven bottom. Stability of dromions, solutions of the DS equations with localized structures, against the perturbation…

solv-int · Physics 2008-02-03 Tetsu Yajima , Katsuhiro Nishinari

Skyrmions are magnetic excitations that are potentially ultrasmall and topologically protected, making them interesting for high-density all-electronic ultrafast storage applications. While recent experiments have confirmed the existence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Yunkun Xie , Jianhua Ma , Hamed Vakilitaleghani , Yaohua Tan , Avik W. Ghosh

We analyze the mechanism of condensation of orientational moduli (as introduced in [25]) on multi-Skyrmionic configurations of the four-dimensional Skyrme model. The present analysis reveals interesting novel features. First of all, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Fabrizio Canfora , Gianni Tallarita