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Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

Topology establishes a unifying framework for a diverse range of scientific areas including particle physics, cosmology, and condensed matter physics. One of the most fascinating manifestations of topology in the context of condensed matter…

Thermodynamic transport phenomena in the system consisting of many hard-disks confined in a circular tube with a temperature difference are discussed. Here, temperatures on parts of the walls of the tube are imposed by stochastic boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-05 Tooru Taniguchi , Colin Bain McRae , Shin-ichi Sawada

A strategy to drive skyrmion motion by a combination of an anisotropy gradient and spin Hall effect has recently been demonstrated. Here, we study the fundamental properties of this type of motion by combining micromagnetic simulations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Riccardo Tomasello , Stavros Komineas , Giulio Siracusano , Mario Carpentieri , Giovanni Finocchio

A generic theory about skyrmion crystal (SkX) formation in chiral magnetic thin films and its fascinating thermodynamic behaviours is presented. A chiral magnetic film can have many metastable states with an arbitrary skyrmion density up to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 X. C. Hu , H. T. Wu , X. R. Wang

Langevin Dynamics simulations are used to study the effect of shear on a two-dimensional colloidal crystal confined by structured parallel walls. When walls are sheared very slowly, only two or three crystalline layers next to the walls…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Wilms , P. Virnau , S. Sengupta , K. Binder

Taking all the magnon modes into account, we derive the skyrmion dynamics in response to a weak external drive. A skyrmion has rotational symmetry and the magnon modes can be characterized by an angular momentum. For a weak distortion of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-20 Shi-Zeng Lin

Solitonic magnetic excitations such as domain walls and, specifically, skyrmionics enable the possibility of compact, high density, ultrafast,all-electronic, low-energy devices, which is the basis for the emerging area of skyrmionics. The…

Magnetic skyrmions are textures behaving as quasiparticles which are topologically different from other states. Their discovery in systems with broken inversion symmetry sparked the search for materials containing such magnetic phase at…

We numerically examine the transport of skyrmions driven over weak random quenched disorder using a modified Thiele approach that includes the thermal softening of skyrmion pairwise interactions introduced by Wang et al., Phys. Rev. Appl.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Magnetic skyrmion motion induced by an electric current has drawn much interest because of its application potential in next-generation magnetic memory devices. Recently, unidirectional skyrmion motion driven by an oscillating magnetic…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected excitations of the magnetization vector field with promising applications in spintronics and spin-caloritronics, particularly due to their high mobility. Skyrmions can be steered by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Xi-guang Wang , L. Chotorlishvili , Guang-hua Guo , C. -L. Jia , J. Berakdar

Skyrmions are topologically protected, two-dimensional, localized hedgehogs and whorls of spin. Originally invented as a concept in field theory for nuclear interactions, skyrmions are central to a wide range of phenomena in condensed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 M. Raju , A. Yagil , Anjan Soumyanarayanan , Anthony K. C. Tan , A. Almoalem , O. M. Auslaender , C. Panagopoulos

We find numerically skyrmionic textures with skyrmion number Q=0 in ferromagnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and perpendicular anisotropy. These have the form of a skyrmion-antiskyrmion pair and may be called chiral droplets.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Naveen Sisodia , Pranaba Kishor Muduli , Nikos Papanicolaou , Stavros Komineas

Skyrmions and antiskyrmions are nanoscale swirling textures of magnetic moments formed by chiral interactions between atomic spins in magnetic non-centrosymmetric materials and multilayer films with broken inversion symmetry. These…

The skyrmion crystal is a periodic array of a swirling topological spin texture. Since it is regarded as an interference pattern by multiple helical spin density waves, the texture changes with the relative phases among the constituent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-15 Satoru Hayami , Tsuyoshi Okubo , Yukitoshi Motome

We study the dynamics of magnetic domain walls in the Peierls potential due to the discreteness of the crystal lattice. The propagation of a narrow domain wall (comparable to the lattice parameter) under the effect of a magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 F. J. Buijnsters , A. Fasolino , M. I. Katsnelson

A self-consistent field theory is introduced and used to investigate the thermodynamics and spin dynamics of an $S = 1$ quantum spin system with a magnetic Skyrmion. The temperature dependence of the Skyrmion profile as well as the phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 R. Wieser

We have developed a sensitive technique to probe the magnetic skyrmion phases and dynamics by employing the interfacial coupling effect in a magnetoelectric composite configuration. The study on a MnSi single crystal sample using this…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-29 Yisheng Chai , Peipei Lu , Haifeng Du , Jianxin Shen , Yinina Ma , Kun Zhai , Le Wang , Youguo Shi , Hang Li , Wenhong Wang , Young Sun

Thermoelectric properties of a model Skyrmion crystal were theoretically investigated, and it was found that its large anomalous Hall conductivity, corresponding to large Chern numbers induced by its peculiar spin structure leads to a large…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-17 Yo Pierre Mizuta , Fumiyuki Ishii