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Topologically stable structures include vortices in a wide variety of matter, such as skyrmions in ferro- and antiferromagnets, and hedgehog point defects in liquid crystals and ferromagnets. These are characterized by integer-valued…

We study the Skyrmion dynamics in thin films under a temperature gradient. Our numerical simulations show that both single and multiple Skyrmions in a crystal move towards the high temperature region, which is contrary to particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lingyao Kong , Jiadong Zang

Thermal gradient driven skyrmion dynamics offers a promising route toward green spintronics, enabling the utilization of waste heat for information transport and processing. Using micromagnetic simulations, we investigate Neel skyrmions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yogesh Kumar , Hurmal Saren , Pintu Das

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable objects that are made with a bunch of spins tightly arranged in a smooth fashion. Their topological nature provides unusual and complex transport properties, such as the skyrmion Hall effect.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-19 Bom Soo Kim

Twisted light carries a non-zero orbital angular momentum, that can be transferred from light to electrons and particles ranging from nanometers to micrometers. Up to now, the interplay between twisted light with dipolar systems has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Lingyuan Gao , Sergei Prokhorenko , Yousra Nahas , Laurent Bellaiche

Current-induced motion of non-axisymmetric skyrmions within angular phases of polar helimagnetis with the easy plane anisotropy is studied by micromagnetic simulations.Such non-axisymmetric skyrmions consist of a circular core and a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-10 Remi Murooka , Andrey O. Leonov , Katsuya Inoue , Jun-ichiro Ohe

We study the equilibrium and dynamical properties of skyrmions in thin films of chiral magnets with oblique magnetic field. The shape of an individual skyrmion is non-circular and the skyrmion density decreases with the tilt angle from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-11 Shi-Zeng Lin , Avadh Saxena

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

Reliable transport of magnetic skyrmions is required for any future skyrmion-based information processing devices. Here we present a micromagnetic study of the in-plane current-driven motion of a skyrmion in a ferromagnetic nanotrack with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , G. P. Zhao , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

Interaction of two skyrmions stabilized by the ferromagnetic exchange, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), and external magnetic field has been studied numerically on a 2D lattice of size large compared to the separation, $d$, between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Daniel Capic , D. A. Garanin , E. M. Chudnovsky

The magnetic skyrmion structure can be formed in the chiral magnets (CMs) with strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. In this work, we propose a way of artificially tailoring the topological details of the skyrmion such as its radial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 Yin-Yan Zhang , Rui Zhu

We examine the current-induced dynamics of a skyrmion that is subject to both structural and bulk inversion asymmetry. There arises a hybrid type of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) which is in the form of a mixture of interfacial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Kyoung-Woong Moon , Nico Kerber , Jonas Nothhelfer , Karin Everschor-Sitte

The interplay between dimensionality and topology manifests in magnetism via both exotic texture morphology and novel dynamics. A free magnetic skyrmion exhibits the skyrmion Hall effect under electric currents. Once it is confined in…

The dynamic behavior of non-collinear atomic spin arrangements in a topologically protected magnetic skyrmion plays a pivotal role in potential future spintronic technologies, including racetrack memory based ultra-high-density storage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Hitesh Chhabra , Jayaseelan Dhakshinamoorthy , Ajaya K. Nayak

The profile and energy of chiral skyrmions, found in magnetic materials with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, can be approximated by formulae obtained through asymptotic analysis in the limits of small and large skyrmion radius. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Stavros Komineas , Christof Melcher , Stephanos Venakides

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

In three-dimensional chiral magnets, skyrmions are line-like objects oriented parallel to the applied magnetic field. The efficient coupling of magnetic skyrmion lattices to spin currents and magnetic fields permits their dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-03 Felix Rucker , Alla Bezvershenko , Denis Mettus , Andreas Bauer , Markus Garst , Achim Rosch , Christian Pfleiderer

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…

A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic texture, could be an ideal element for ultra-dense magnetic memories. Here, we review recent progress in the field of skyrmionics, which is concerned with studies of tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Alexey A. Kovalev , Shane Sandhoefner

Topological spin textures in an itinerant ferromagnet, SrRuO$_3$ is studied combining Hall transport measurements and numerical simulations. We observe characteristic signatures of the Topological Hall Effect associated with skyrmions. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 P. Zhang , A. Das , E. Barts , M. Azhar , L. Si , K. Held , M. Mostovoy , T. Banerjee