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We compare the driven dynamics of skyrmions, antiskyrmions, and skyrmionium interacting with random disorder, circular defects, and asymmetric potentials. When interacting with a line defect at a constant drive, skyrmions and antiskyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas

The world is full of fluids that flow. The fluid nature of flowing skyrmionic quasiparticles is of fundamental physical interest and plays an essential role in the transport of many skyrmions. Here, we report the laminar and transiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Motohiko Ezawa , Guoping Zhao , Yan Zhou , Xiaoxi Liu , Masahito Mochizuki

Langevin dynamical simulations are performed to investigate the depinning dynamics of a two-dimensional solid dusty plasma, which is modulated by one-dimensional nonlinear deformed periodic substrates, and also driven by the combination of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Zhaoye Wang , Nichen Yu , Ao xu , Chen Liang , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt , Yan Feng

Using a particle-based model, we simulate the behavior of a skyrmion under the influence of asymmetric funnel geometries and ac driving at zero temperature. We specifically investigate possibilities for controlling the skyrmion motion by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas

Using a particle-based model, we examine the collective dynamics of skyrmions interacting with a funnel potential under dc driving as the skyrmion density and relative strength of the Magnus and damping terms are varied. For driving in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas

We study the dynamics of a skyrmion in a magnetic insulating nanowire in the presence of time-dependent oscillating magnetic field gradients. These ac fields act as a net driving force on the skyrmion via its own intrinsic magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Christina Psaroudaki , Daniel Loss

Micromagnetic simulations were employed to investigate the dynamics of a single skyrmion within an antiferromagnetic nanostripe with spatially engineered magnetic properties. This study investigates skyrmion motion within an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 R. C. Silva , R. L. Silva

We numerically examine a single skyrmion dynamics under the influence of triangular and honeycomb obstacle arrays at zero temperature. The skyrmion Hall angle $\theta_{sk}$, that is the angle between the applied external drive and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 N. P. Vizarim , J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas

Using continuum simulations, we show that under a sinusoidal electric field, liquid crystal skyrmions undergo periodic shape oscillations which produce controlled directed motion. The speed of the skyrmion is non-monotonic in the frequency…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 A. Duzgun , C. Nisoli , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We investigate the dynamical motion of particles on a two-dimensional symmetric periodic substrate in the presence of both a dc drive along a symmetry direction of the periodic substrate and an additional circular ac drive. For large enough…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , M. B. Hastings

Particles in a crowded environment exhibit slow anomalous diffusion, and their efficient manipulation is important in controlling transport phenomena in complex materials. Skyrmions and half-skyrmions, spatially localized quasiparticles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-03 Kyohei Takae , Kota Mitsumoto

We study driven atomic Josephson junctions realized by coupling two two-dimensional atomic clouds with a tunneling barrier. By moving the barrier at a constant velocity, dc and ac Josephson regimes are characterized by a zero and nonzero…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-31 Vijay Pal Singh , Juan Polo , Ludwig Mathey , Luigi Amico

We show that ac driven skyrmions interacting with an asymmetric substrate provide a realization of a new class of ratchet system which we call a vector ratchet that arises due to the effect of the Magnus term on the skyrmion dynamics. In a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-08 X. Ma , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

Using particle-based simulations, we examine the collective dynamics of skyrmions interacting with periodic pinning arrays, focusing on the impact of the Magnus force on the sliding phases. As a function of increasing pinning strength, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 C. Reichhardt , D. Ray , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Skyrmions dynamics in the approximation of point-particle skyrmions is considered in the multiferroic insulators, where the spiral magnetic structure is accompanied by finite electric dipole moment. The skyrmion motion is studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Pavel A. Andreev , Mariya Iv. Trukhanova

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

We examine driven skyrmion dynamics in systems with inhomogeneous pinning where a strip of strong pinning coexists with a region containing no pinning. For driving parallel to the strip, we find that the initial skyrmion motion is confined…

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

Recently spin textures called skyrmions have been discovered in certain chiral magnetic materials without spatial inversion symmetry, and have attracted enormous attention due to their promising application in spintronics since only a low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-18 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

We consider the motion of superconducting vortices and skyrmions on a square substrate near the first commensurate matching field. Slightly above commensuration, a series of dynamic phases appear including interstitial flow, and there is a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-23 C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

Many driven binary systems can exhibit laning transitions when the two species have different mobilities, such as colloidal particles with opposite charges in electric fields. Another example is pedestrian or active matter systems, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 N. P. Vizarim , J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas , F. Béron