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The ground state of QCD with two flavors (up and down quarks) at finite baryon density in sufficiently strong magnetic field is in a form of either a chiral soliton lattice(CSL), an array of solitons stacked along the magnetic field, or a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Yuki Amari , Muneto Nitta , Ryo Yokokura

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic spin structures exhibiting particle-like behaviour. They are of strong interest from a fundamental viewpoint and for application, where they have potential to act as information carriers in future…

Skyrmions are emergent many-body excitations that lie at the heart of both multi-component quantum Hall-like systems and deconfined quantum criticality. In a companion article (X. Wang et al., arXiv:2507.22971), we studied a microscopic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-28 Xuepeng Wang , Johannes S. Hofmann , Debanjan Chowdhury

Skyrmions are important topologically non-trivial fields characteristic of models spanning scales from the microscopic to the cosmological. However, the Skyrmion number can only be defined for fields with specific boundary conditions,…

Skyrmions are topological structures defined by a winding vector configuration that yields a quantized topological charge. In magnetic materials, skyrmions manifest as stable, mobile spin textures, positioning them at the forefront of…

We argue that topological compactons (solitons with compact support) may be quite common objects if $k$-fields, i.e., fields with nonstandard kinetic term, are considered, by showing that even for models with well-behaved potentials the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 C. Adam , J. Sanchez-Guillen , A. Wereszczynski

Magnetic skyrmions, the topological states possessing chiral magnetic structure with nontrivial topology, have been widely investigated as a promising candidate for spintronic devices. They can also couple with superconducting vortices to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-22 Yong-Jie Xie , Ang Qian , Bin He , Yu-Biao Wu , Sheng Wang , Bing Xu , Guoqiang Yu , Xiufeng Han , X. G. Qiu

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures promising for future high-density and nonvolatile memory. It is crucial to understand the current-driven skyrmion dynamics in the presence of deformation, of which an analytical model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Zehan Chen , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Qiming Shao

Skyrmions are important in topological quantum field theory for being soliton solutions of a nonlinear sigma model and in information technology for their attractive applications. Skyrmions are believed to be circular and stripy spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 X. R. Wang , X. C. Hu , H. T. Wu

Cosmic vortons are closed loops of superconducting cosmic strings carrying current and charge. Despite a large number of studies the existence and stability of cosmic vorton solutions is still an open problem. Numerical simulations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard Battye , Paul Sutcliffe

We propose a scheme for the creation of skyrmions (coreless vortices) in a Bose-Einstein condensate with hyperfine spin F=1. In this scheme, four traveling-wave laser beams, with Gaussian or Laguerre-Gaussian transverse profiles, induce…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl-Peter Marzlin , Weiping Zhang , Barry C. Sanders

The recent discovery of tunable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in layered magnetic materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy makes them promising candidates for stabilization and manipulation of skyrmions at elevated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-17 Rick Keesman , A. O. Leonov , P. van Dieten , Stefan Buhrandt , G. T. Barkema , Lars Fritz , R. A. Duine

Topological solitons, such as skyrmions, arise in field theories of systems ranging from Bose-Einstein condensates to optics, particle physics, and cosmology, but they are rarely accessible experimentally. Chiral nematic liquid crystals…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Hayley R. O. Sohn , Changda D. Liu , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Topological magnetic solitons, such as skyrmions, exhibit intriguing particle-like properties that make them attractive for fundamental research and practical applications. While many magnetic systems can host skyrmions as statically stable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-22 Vladyslav M. Kuchkin , Bruno Barton-Singer , Pavel F. Bessarab , Nikolai S. Kiselev

Skyrmions are the magnetic defects in an ultrathin magnetic film, similar to the bubble domains in the thicker films. Even weak uniaxial anisotropy determines its radius unambiguously. We consider the dynamics of the skyrmion decay. We show…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ar. Abanov , V. L. Pokrovsky

The static baby Skyrme model is investigated in the extreme limit where the energy functional contains only the potential and Skyrme terms, but not the Dirichlet energy term. It is shown that the model with potential $V=\frac12(1+\phi_3)^2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-12 J. M. Speight

Recently, there has been substantial interest in realizations of skyrmions, in particular in 2D systems due to increased stability resulting from reduced dimensionality. A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Utkan Güngördü , Rabindra Nepal , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Kirill Belashchenko , Alexey A. Kovalev

The dynamics of a gravitational torsion kink as a plane symmetric thick domain wall solution of Einstein-Cartan (EC) field equation is given. The spin-torsion energy has to be as high as the gravitational kink potential otherwise torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically nontrivial spin configurations that possess particle-like properties. Earlier research was mainly focused on a specific type of skyrmion with topological charge Q = -1. However, theoretical analyses of…

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures with non-trivial topology that comprise two-dimensional quasi-particles and are promising information carriers for data storage and processing devices. Skyrmion lattices in magnetic thin films…