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We show by micromagnetic simulations that spontaneous skyrmion ground state can exist in Co/Ru/Co nanodisks without the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction (DMI), which can remain stable in the applied magnetic field along +z direction even up…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-14 Yingying Dai , Han Wang , Peng Tao , Teng Yang , Weijun Ren , Zhidong Zhang

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…

When a magnetic skyrmion is modeled as a point particle, its dynamics depends on the precise definition of the skyrmion center. The guiding-center position, defined as the first moment of the skyrmion density, exhibits Thiele's massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Xiaofan Wu , Oleg Tchernyshyov

Magnetic skyrmions are highly promising candidates for future spintronic applications such as skyrmion racetrack memories and logic devices. They exhibit exotic and complex dynamics governed by topology and are less influenced by defects,…

The current-driven motion of magnetic skyrmions, as topologically protected winding vector fields of local magnetization, has attracted considerable attention due to both fundamental interest in the dynamics of topological solitons, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Felipe Reyes-Osorio , Branislav K. Nikolic

Magnetic whirls in chiral magnets, so-called skyrmions, can be manipulated by ultrasmall current densities. Here we study both analytically and numerically the interactions of a single skyrmion in two dimensions with a small hole in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-05 Jan Müller , Achim Rosch

We investigate the propagation of magnetic skyrmions on elastically deformable geometries by employing imaginary time quantum field theory methods. We demonstrate that the Euclidean action of the problem carries information of the elements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Alexander Pavlis , Christina Psaroudaki

Ensembles of magnetic skyrmions in confined geometries are shown to exhibit thermally driven motion on two different time scales. The intrinsic fluctuating dynamics ($t\sim 1~$ps) is governed by short-range symmetric and antisymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-13 Alexander F. Schäffer , Levente Rózsa , Jamal Berakdar , Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Roland Wiesendanger

Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like swirling spin textures characterized by a quantized topological invariant, realized in chiral-lattice magnets are currently attracting intense research interest. In particular, their dynamics under external…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-20 Masahito Mochizuki , Shinichiro Seki

In Keplerian accretion disks, turbulence and magnetic fields may be jointly excited through a subcritical dynamo process involving the magnetorotational instability (MRI). High-resolution simulations exhibit a tendency towards statistical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-08 A. Riols , F. Rincon , C. Cossu , G. Lesur , G. I. Ogilvie , P-Y. Longaretti

Within a microscopic theory, we study the quantum Brownian motion of a skyrmion in a magnetic insulator coupled to a bath of magnon-like quantum excitations. The intrinsic skyrmion-bath coupling gives rise to damping terms for the skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Christina Psaroudaki , Pavel Aseev , Daniel Loss

Magnetic skyrmions exhibit particle-like stability and rich dynamical behaviour arising from their topological nature, making them promising building blocks for future spintronic devices. In this work, we investigate the interaction…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 M. Al Busaidi , F. Al Ma'Mari , R. Sbiaa

A spin texture called skyrmion has been recently observed in certain chiral magnets without inversion symmetry. The observed skyrmions are extended objects with typical linear sizes of 10 nm to 100 nm that contain $10^3$ to $10^5$ spins and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-24 Shi-Zeng Lin , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

We formulate a general microscopic approach to spin-orbit torques in thin ferromagnet/heavy-metal bilayers in linear response to electric current or electric field. The microscopic theory we develop avoids the notion of spin currents and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 I. A. Ado , O. A. Tretiakov , M. Titov

Skyrmionic devices exhibit energy-efficient and high-integration data storage and computing capabilities due to their small size, topological protection, and low drive current requirements. So, to realize these devices, an extensive study,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Kishan K. Mishra , Aijaz H. Lone , Srikant Srinivasan , Hossein Fariborzi , Gianluca Setti

Skyrmions, novel topologically stable spin vortices, hold promise for next-generation magnetic storage due to their nanoscale domains to enable high information storage density and their low threshold for current-driven motion to enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Dong Liang , John P. DeGrave , Matthew J. Stolt , Yoshinori Tokura , Song Jin

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable nanoscale particle-like objects that were discovered in 2009. Since that time, intense research interest has led to the identification of numerous compounds that support skyrmions over a range of…

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

Single magnetic skyrmion dynamics in chiral magnets with a spatially inhomogeneous Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is considered. Based on the relation between DMI coupling and skyrmion helicity, it is argued that the latter must be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Sebastián A. Díaz , Roberto E. Troncoso

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in a metallic chiral magnet. First we show that skyrmions can be created dynamically by destabilizing the ferromagnetic background state through a spin polarized current. We then treat skyrmions as rigid…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-14 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

Magnetic skyrmions, as a whirling spin texture with axisymmetry, cannot be propelled by a uniform magnetic field. Therefore, reported skyrmion motions have been induced using other sorts of stimuli; typically, electric currents in magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Xiangjun Xing , Yan Zhou