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Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that appear in magnets with broken spatial inversion symmetry via competition between the (anti)ferromagnetic exchange interactions and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Yuto Ohki , Masahito Mochizuki

We investigate electrical transport in a three-dimensional massless Dirac fermion model that describes a Dirac semimetal state realized in topological materials. We derive a set of interdependent diffusion equations with eight local degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masao Ogata

Phenomenological approach is developed in the theory of spin-valve type ferromagnetic junctions to describe exchange switching by current flowing perpendicular to interfaces. Forward and backward current switching effects are described and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

We demonstrate deterministic control of dipole-field-stabilized skyrmions by means of spin-orbit torques arising from heavy transition-metal seed layers. Experiments are performed on amorphous Fe/Gd multilayers that are patterned into wires…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Sergio A. Montoya , Robert Tolley , Ian Gilbert , Soong-Geun Je , Mi-Young Im , Eric E. Fullerton

A theoretical study of the current-driven dynamics of magnetic skyrmions in disordered perpendicularly-magnetized ultrathin films is presented. The disorder is simulated as a granular structure in which the local anisotropy varies randomly…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-22 Joo-Von Kim , Myoung-Woo Yoo

A gauge invariant quantum field theory with a spacetime dependent Chern-Simons coefficient is studied. Using a constraint formalism together with the Schwinger action principle it is shown that non-zero gradients in the coefficient induce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark Burgess

We study the spin-transfer drag mediated by the Brownian motion of skyrmions. The essential idea is illustrated in a two-terminal geometry, in which a thin film of a magnetic insulator is placed in between two metallic reservoirs. An…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Hector Ochoa , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

A complete set of the generalized drift-diffusion equations for a coupled charge and spin dynamics in ferromagnets in the presence of extrinsic spin-orbit coupling is derived from the quantum kinetic approach, covering major transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 C. O. Pauyac , M. Chshiev , A. Manchon , S. A. Nikolaev

Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like swirling spin structures with quantized topological number, observed in chiral magnets, are appealing for potential applications in spintronics because it is possible to control their motion with ultralow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Junichi Iwasaki , Masahito Mochizuki , Naoto Nagaosa

We demonstrate a room temperature spin dynamo where the precession of electron spins in ferromagnets driven by microwaves manifests itself in a collective way by generating d.c. currents. The current/power ratio is at least three orders of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. S. Gui , N. Mecking , X. Zhou , G. Williams , C. -M. Hu

We show that a Chern-Simons term for a gauge field describing a fluctuation of spins is induced by integrating out hole fields in the presence of spin-orbit coupling which originates from a buckling of the CuO$_2$ plane. Through the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Takao Morinari

Despite significant advances in the last decade regarding the room temperature stabilization of skyrmions or their current induced dynamics, the impact of local material inhomogeneities still remains an important issue that impedes to reach…

The commonly believed absence of skyrmion Hall effect for topologically trivial magnetic skyrmions is reconsidered for bilayer skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets driven by spin-transfer and spin-orbit torques. Using a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Mu-Kun Lee , Javier A. Vélez , Rubén M. Otxoa , Masahito Mochizuki

The dynamics of magnetic skyrmion driven by spin-polarized current is theoretically studied in the chiral ferromagnetic film with spatially modulated Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Three cases including linear, sinusoidal, and periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Liping Zhou , Ren Qin , Ya-qing Zheng , Yong Wang

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in chiral magnets in the presence of a spin polarized current. The motion of skyrmions in the ferromagnetic background excites spin waves and contributes to additional damping. At a large current, the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-15 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

Domain-wall skyrmions are magnetic solitons embedded in a domain wall that are topologically equivalent to skyrmions. Here, we theoretically study antiferromagnetic domain-wall skyrmions and their current-driven motion within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Wooyon Kim , Jun Seok Seo , Se Kwon Kim

We present a unified theory of charge carrier transport in 2D Dirac systems with broken mirror inversion and time-reversal symmetries (e.g., as realized in ferromagnetic graphene). We find that the entanglement between spin and pseudospin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 Manuel Offidani , Aires Ferreira

The thermal Hall effect has emerged as a fundamental tool for probing exotic quasiparticles and topological order, particularly in magnetic insulators where electronic conduction is suppressed. Much like skyrmions, which are characterized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ferenc Márkus , Katalin Gambár

Experimental and theoretical aspects of Hall-type transport of spins in magnetic insulators are reviewed, with emphasis on their spin chirality origin. A general formalism for linear response theory of thermal Hall transport in the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-22 Jung Hoon Han , Hyunyong Lee

We study the dynamics of skyrmions under spin-transfer torque in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya materials with easy-axis anisotropy. In particular, we study the motion of a topological skyrmion with skyrmion number $Q=1$ and a non-topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou