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Magnetic skyrmions are localized nanometric spin textures with quantized winding numbers as the topological invariant. Rapidly increasing attention has been paid to the investigations of skyrmions since their experimental discovery in 2009,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-31 Ping Huang , Marco Cantoni , Alex Kruchkov , Rajeswari Jayaraman , Arnaud Magrez , Fabrizio Carbone , Henrik M. Ronnow

The magnetic skyrmion is a nanoscale topological object characterized by the winding of the magnetic moments, appearing in magnetic materials with broken inversion symmetry. Because of its low current threshold for driving, the skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Ryo Iguchi , Shinya Kasai , Kazushige Koshikawa , Norimichi Chinone , Shinsuke Suzuki , Ken-ichi Uchida

The analysis of domain wall dynamics is often simplified to one dimensional physics. For domain walls in thin films, more realistic approaches require the description as two dimensional objects. This includes the study of vortices and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Davi R. Rodrigues , Ar. Abanov , J. Sinova , K. Everschor-Sitte

Topological defects play a key role in a variety of physical systems, ranging from high-energy to solid state physics. They yield fascinating emergent phenomena and serve as a bridge between the microspic and macroscopic world. A skyrmion…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-26 S. Tsesses , E. Ostrovsky , K. Cohen , B. Gjonaj , N. Lindner , G. Bartal

Current-driven dynamics of spin textures plays a pivotal role in potential applications for electronic devices. While two-dimensional magnetic skyrmions with topologically nontrivial spin textures have garnered significant interest, their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-25 Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected quasiparticles and have drawn much attention because of their potential applications in next-generation spintronics devices. Their inherent topological stability, nanoscale size, and efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Hind Prakash , Himanshu Fulara

By performing numerical simulations for the handwritten digit recognition task, we demonstrate that a magnetic skyrmion lattice confined in a thin-plate magnet possesses high capability of reservoir computing. We obtain a high recognition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Mu-Kun Lee , Masahito Mochizuki

Spin transfer torque (STT) affords magnetic nanodevices the potential to act as memory, computing, and microwave elements operating at ultra-low currents and at a low energy cost. Spin transfer torque is not only effective in manipulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Y. Zhou , E. Iacocca , A. Awad , R. K. Dumas , F. C. Zhang , H. B. Braun , J. Åkerman

It has recently been shown that Skyrmions with a fixed size can exist in theories without a Skyrme term, providing the Skyrmion is located on a domain wall. Here we numerically compute domain wall Skyrmions of this type, in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Paul Jennings , Paul Sutcliffe

We introduce topological phases of matter defined by skyrmions in the ground state spin -- or pseudospin -- expectation value textures in the Brillouin zone, the chiral and helical topological skyrmion phases of matter. These phases are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-10 Ashley M. Cook

Magnetic skyrmion, a swirling spin texture, in chiral magnets is characterized by (i) nano-scale size ($\sim$1nm -- 100nm), (ii) topological stability, and (iii) gyro-dynamics. These features are shown to be advantageous for (a)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 W. Koshibae , Y. Kaneko , J. Iwasaki , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura , N. Nagaosa

Magnetic skyrmion is a promising building block for developing information storage and computing devices. It can be stabilized in a ferromagnetic thin film with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). The moving ferromagnetic skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Qiming Shao , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions are localized swirls of magnetization with a non-trivial topological winding number. This winding increases their robustness to superparamagnetism and gives rise to a myriad of novel dynamical properties, making them…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Richard Brearton , Gerrit van der Laan , Thorsten Hesjedal

Optical skyrmion beams, which encompass two-dimensional topology in their spatial structures, are promising for ultra-dense optical communications and advanced matter manipulation. Generating such light beams via a chip-based approach will…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-18 Wenbo Lin , Yasutomo Ota , Yasuhiko Arakawa , Satoshi Iwamoto

We study the capture of a magnetic Skyrmion into a domain wall (DW) structure in chiral magnets and find that in the respective ground states of the DW and the Skyrmion, they repel each other. This means that an isolated magnetic Skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Sven Bjarke Gudnason , Yuki Amari , Muneto Nitta

Magnetic skyrmions (MS) are particle-like spin structures with whirling configuration, which are promising candidates for spin-based memory. MS contains alluring features including remarkably high stability, ultra low driving current…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-05-04 Mei-Chin Chen , Kaushik Roy

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected nanoscale objects, which are promising building blocks for novel magnetic and spintronic devices. Here, we investigate the dynamics of a skyrmion driven by a spin wave in a magnetic nanowire.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-28 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Dun Xiao , G. P. Zhao , Yaowen Liu , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically-protected spin textures existing in helimagentic materials, which can be utilized as information carriers for non-volatile memories and logic circuits in spintronics. Searching simple and controllable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ya-qing Zheng , Yong Wang

Controlled movement of nano-scale stable magnetic objects has been proposed as the foundation for a new generation of magnetic storage devices. Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like spin textures stabilized by their topology are particularly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-27 Yongkang Luo , Shizeng Lin , M. Leroux , N. Wakeham , D. M. Fobes , E. D. Bauer , J. B. Betts , J. D. Thompson , A. Migliori , M. Janoschek , Boris Maiorov

Skyrmion qubits are a new highly promising logic element for quantum information processing. However, their scalability to multiple interacting qubits remains challenging. We propose a hybrid quantum setup with skyrmion qubits strongly…