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Condensed matter systems admit topological collective excitations above a trivial ground state, an example being Chern insulators formed by Dirac bosons with a gap at finite energies. However, in contrast to electrons, there is no…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-30 Alexander Mook , Kirill Plekhanov , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

When interacting spins in condensed matter order ferromagnetically, their ground state wave function is topologically trivial. Nonetheless, in two dimensions, the ferromagnetic state can support spin excitations with nontrivial topology, an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Alexander Mook , Sebastián A. Díaz , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Recent observations of topological spin textures brought spintronics one step closer to new magnetic memories. Nevertheless, the existence of Skyrmions, as well as their stabilization, require very specific intrinsic magnetic properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 E. A. Stepanov , C. Dutreix , M. I. Katsnelson

The topological Hall effect is a hallmark of topologically non-trivial magnetic textures such as magnetic skyrmions. It quantifies the transverse electric current that is generated once an electric field is applied and occurs as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Börge Göbel , Lennart Schimpf , Ingrid Mertig

Spin inertia has been demonstrated to give rise to high-frequency nutational excitations beyond the conventional low-frequency precessional modes. Here, we demonstrate that the hybridization between precessional and nutational magnons may…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-01 Subhadip Ghosh , Mikhail Cherkasskii , Ritwik Mondal , Alexander Mook , Levente Rózsa

Using a general framework, interaction potentials between chiral magnetic solitons in a planar system with a tilted external magnetic field are calculated analytically in the limit of large separation. The results are compared to previous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Bruno Barton-Singer , Bernd J. Schroers

In the cubic chiral magnet Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$Si a metastable state comprising of topologically nontrivial spin whirls, so-called skyrmions, may be preserved down to low temperatures by means of field cooling the sample. This metastable…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-24 Peter Milde , Erik Neuber , Andreas Bauer , Christian Pfleiderer , Lukas M. Eng

We show that skyrmions on the surface of a magnetic topological insulator may experience an attractive interaction that leads to the formation of a skyrmion-skyrmion bound state. This is in contrast to the case of skyrmions in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Kunal L. Tiwari , J. Lavoie , T. Pereg-Barnea , W. A. Coish

The chiral nature of active matter plays an important role in the dynamics of active matter interacting with chiral structures. Skyrmions are chiral objects, and their interactions with chiral nanostructures can lead to intriguing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Motohiko Ezawa , Guoping Zhao , Yan Zhou , Xiaoxi Liu , Masahito Mochizuki

The stability of two-dimensional chiral skyrmions in a tilted magnetic field is studied. It is shown that by changing the direction of the field and its magnitude, one can continuously transform chiral skyrmion into a skyrmion with opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Vladyslav M. Kuchkin , Nikolai S. Kiselev

Chirality, an intrinsic handedness, is one of the most intriguing fundamental phenomena in nature. Materials composed of chiral molecules find broad applications in areas ranging from nonlinear optics and spintronics to biology and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Yu. Tikhonov , S. Kondovych , J. Mangeri , M. Pavlenko , L. Baudry , A. Sené , A. Galda , S. Nakhmanson , O. Heinonen , A. Razumnaya , I. Luk'yanchuk , V. M. Vinokur

Skyrmions, topologically protected vortex-like nanometric spin textures in magnets, have been attracting increasing attention for emergent electromagnetic responses and possible technological applications for spintronics. In particular,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Y. Tokunaga , X. Z. Yu , J. S. White , H. M. Rønnow , D. Morikawa , Y. Taguchi , Y. Tokura

Skyrmions and skyrmion crystal (SkX) discovered in chiral magnets show unique physical properties due to their nontrivial topology such as the stability against the annihilation and the motion driven by the ultralow current density, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Shintaro Hoshino , Naoto Nagaosa

It has been shown that in magnets possessing an inversion center in the absence of deformations, a torsion-induced Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction (tiDMI) can arise. A microscopic mechanism for this interaction is described, involving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 M. A. Kuznetsov , A. A. Fraerman

Two-dimensional chiral magnets are known to host a variety of skyrmions, characterized by an integer topological charge. However, these systems typically favor uniform lattices as a thermodynamically stable phase composed of either…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Sayan Banik , Nikolai S. Kiselev , Ashis K. Nandy

In this Letter, we identify a noncoplanar chiral spin texture on the distorted kagom\'e-lattice antiferromagnets induced by the presence of a magnetic field applied perpendicular to the distorted kagom\'e plane. The noncoplanar chiral spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-22 S. A. Owerre

We consider a twisted magnetic bilayer subject to the perpendicular electric field. The interplay of induced Dzyaloshinskii - Moriya interaction and spatially varying moir\'e exchange potential results in complex non-collinear magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Polina Shaban , Igor Lobanov , Valerii Uzdin , Ivan Iorsh

Skyrmions are spatially localized magnetic swirls which carry a nonzero integer topological charge. We study crystals of skyrmions in a two-dimensional ferromagnet model with chiral interactions induced by the presence of broken inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-22 Sopheak Sorn , Stefan Divic , Arun Paramekanti

Spin textures with nontrivial topology, such as vortices and skyrmions, have attracted attention as a source of unconventional magnetic, transport, and optical phenomena. Recently, a new generation of topological spin textures has been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-08 Satoru Hayami , Yukitoshi Motome

Magnetic solitons have recently attracted significant attention due to their intricate physical properties and potential applications in information processing. The majority of the studies in this field, however, are focused on a particular…