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Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected whirling spin textures that can be stabilized in magnetic materials in which a chiral interaction is present. Their limited size together with their robustness against the external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Davide Maccariello , William Legrand , Nicolas Reyren , Karin Garcia , Karim Bouzehouane , Sophie Collin , Vincent Cros , Albert Fert

We present a microscopic theory of skyrmions in the monolayer quantum Hall ferromagnet. It is a peculiar feature of the system that the number density and the spin density are entangled intrinsically as dictated by the W$%_{\infty}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Tsitsishvili , Z. F. Ezawa

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically wound nanoscale textures of spins whose ambient stability and electrical manipulation in multilayer films have led to an explosion of research activities. While past efforts focused predominantly on…

We examine the dynamics of skyrmions in systems with a region of strong pinning coexisting with a pin free region, where the equilibrium state has a uniform skyrmion density. Under an applied drive, skyrmions accumulate in the pin free…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

A magnetic skyrmion is a topological magnetization structure with a nanometric size and a well-defined swirling spin distribution, which is anticipated to be an essential building block for novel skyrmion-based device applications. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

Skyrmions are chiral swirling magnetization structures with nanoscale size. These structures have attracted considerable attention due to their topological stability and promising applicability in nanodevices, since they can be displaced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Swapneel Amit Pathak , Riccardo Hertel

Magnetic skyrmions with a well-defined spin texture have shown unprecedented potential for various spintronic applications owning to their topologically non-trivial and quasiparticle properties. To put skyrmions into practical technology,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-16 Ruyi Chen , Chong Chen , Lei Han , Peisen Liu , Rongxuan Su , Wenxuan Zhu , Yongjian Zhou , Feng Pan , Cheng Song

Magneto-transport properties have been investigated for epitaxial thin films of B20-type MnSi grown on Si(111) substrates. Both Lorentz transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images and topological Hall effect (THE) clearly point to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-19 Yufan Li , N. Kanazawa , X. Z. Yu , A. Tsukazaki , M. Kawasaki , M. Ichikawa , X. F. Jin , F. Kagawa , Y. Tokura

Topological spin textures in magnetic materials such as skyrmions and hopfions are interesting manifestations of geometric structures in real materials, concurrently having potential applications as information carriers. In the crystalline…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-15 Temuujin Bayaraa , Sinéad M. Griffin

Skyrmions are topologically protected field configurations with particle-like properties that play important roles in various fields of science. Recently, skyrmions have been directly observed in chiral magnets. Here, we investigate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-15 R. L. Silva , L. D. Secchin , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira , R. L. Stamps

Magnetic skyrmions are believed to be the promising candidate of information carriers in spintronics. However, the skyrmion Hall effect due to the nontrivial topology of skyrmions can induce a skyrmion accumulation or even annihilation at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Xiaofan Wang , X. S. Wang , C. Wang , Huanhuan Yang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Electrons in metals experience an effective vector potential when coupled to spin textures with non-zero scalar spin chirality, such as skyrmions. This coupling can generate a substantial field, leading to pronounced observable phenomena,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-14 Muhammad Akram , Onur Erten

Magnetic compensation in rare-earth iron garnets (REIGs) offers a unique setting for which competing sublattice moments can give rise to non-collinear (canted) magnetic configurations, in which the sublattice magnetizations are not aligned…

Skyrmions are vortex-like textures of magnetic moments found in some magnetically ordered materials. Here we describe the origin of the skyrmion and discuss the experimental realization of skyrmions in magnetic materials, the dynamic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-23 Tom Lancaster

We discuss in details the electron scattering pattern on skyrmion-like magnetic textures in two-dimensional geometry. The special attention is focused on analyzing the scattering asymmetry, which is a precursor of the topological Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 K. S. Denisov

The Skyrmion Hall Effect (SkHE) observed in ferromagnetic (FM) and ferrimagnetic (FI) skyrmions traveling due to a spin-polarized current can be a problematic issue when it comes to technological applications. By investigating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 R. C. Silva , R. L. Silva , J. C. Moreira , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

The topological Hall effect (THE) and its thermoelectric counterpart, the topological Nernst effect (TNE), are hallmarks of the skyrmion lattice phase (SkL). We observed the giant TNE of the SkL in centrosymmetric Gd$_2$PdSi$_3$, comparable…

The interplay between magnetism and strong topological insulator gives rise to distinct new topological phases and various intriguing phenomena, attracting significant attention in recent years. However, magnetic effects in weak topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Rui Chen , Xiao-Xia Yi , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Magnetic skyrmions have garnered attention for their potential roles in spintronic applications, such as information carriers in computation, data storage, and nano-oscillators due to their small size, topological stability, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Rajgowrav Cheenikundil , Zhiwei Lu , Manuel Pereiro , Anna Delin , Danny Thonig

Magnetic skyrmions, topologically stabilized chiral magnetic textures with particle-like properties have so far primarily been studied statically. Here, we experimentally investigate the dynamics of skyrmion ensembles in metallic thin film…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Klaus Raab , Maurice Schmitt , Maarten A. Brems , Jan Rothörl , Fabian Kammerbauer , Sachin Krishnia , Mathias Kläui , Peter Virnau