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Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale windings of the spin configuration that hold great promise for technology due to their topology-related properties and extremely reduced sizes. After the recent observation at room temperature of sub-100 nm…

We demonstrate numerically on large spin lattices that one can write skyrmions in a thin magnetic film with a magnetic dipole of a few tens of nanometer in size. Nucleation of non-chiral skyrmions as well as chiral skyrmions formed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Dmitry A. Garanin , Daniel Capic , Senfu Zhang , Xixiang Zhang , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Skyrmions and antiskyrmions in magnetic ultrathin films are characterised by a topological charge describing how the spins wind around their core. This topology governs their response to forces in the rigid core limit. However, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Ulrike Ritzmann , Stephan von Malottki , Joo-Von Kim , Stefan Heinze , Jairo Sinova , Bertrand Dupé

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 magnetic quasi-particles with enhanced stability and different manipulation mechanisms using external fields and currents making them promising candidates for future applications for instance in neuromorphic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-30 Thomas Brian Winkler , Jan Rothörl , Maarten A. Brems , Hans Fangohr , Mathias Kläui

Dynamics of skyrmionic spin texture in the spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate is examined by analytical and numerical means. We show the skyrmion (coreless vortex) to be inherently unstable in the sense that the state initially prepared purely…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-19 Xiao-Qiang Xu , Jung Hoon Han

When spin polarised electrons flow through a magnetic texture a transfer torque is generated. We examine the effect of this torque on skyrmions and skyrmion bags, skyrmionic structures of arbitrary integer topological degree, in thin…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-07 Charles Kind , David Foster

Topological spin textures are characterized by topological magnetic charges, Q, which govern their electromagnetic properties. Recent studies have achieved skyrmion bundles with arbitrary integer values of Q, opening possibilities for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yongsen Zhang , Jin Tang , Yaodong Wu , Meng Shi , Xitong Xu , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du

Magnetic skyrmions are hailed as a potential technology for data storage and other data processing devices. However, their stability against thermal fluctuations is an open question that must be answered before skyrmion-based devices can be…

We theoretically study the dynamics of skyrmion crystals in electrically-insulating chiral magnets subjected to current-induced spin torques by adjacent metallic layers. We develop an elasticity theory that accounts for the gyrotropic force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-24 Hector Ochoa , Se Kwon Kim , Oleg Tchernyshyov , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We theoretically study a stabilization mechanism of the skyrmion crystal in centrosymmetric magnets with a bilayer structure. We show that the interplay between a layer-dependent staggered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction that arises from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-10 Satoru Hayami

Magnetic skyrmions are localized swirls of magnetization with a non-trivial topological winding number. This winding increases their robustness to superparamagnetism and gives rise to a myriad of novel dynamical properties, making them…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Richard Brearton , Gerrit van der Laan , Thorsten Hesjedal

Spinful superfluids of ultracold atoms are ideal for investigating the intrinsic properties of spin current and texture because they are realized in an isolated, nondissipative system free from impurities, dislocations, and thermal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-09 Hiromitsu Takeuchi

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

Chiral magnetic skyrmions are topological solitons, of significant physical interest, arising in ferromagnets described by a micromagnetic energy including a chiral (Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya) interaction term. We show that for small chiral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Stephen Gustafson , Li Wang

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

Topological magnetic textures - like skyrmions - have become a major player in the design of next-generation magnetic storage technology due to their stability and the control of their motion by ultra-low current densities. A major…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-26 Karin Everschor-Sitte , Matthias Sitte , Thierry Valet , Ar. Abanov , Jairo Sinova

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stabilized quasi-particles and are promising candidates for energy-efficient applications, such as storage but also logic and sensing. Here we present a new concept for a multi-turn sensor-counter device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Kilian Leutner , Thomas Brian Winkler , Johannes Güttinger , Hans Fangohr , Mathias Kläui

We study theoretically the dynamics of magnons in the presence of a single skyrmion in chiral magnets featuring Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We show by micromagnetic simulations that the scattering process of magnons by a skyrmion can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-18 Junichi Iwasaki , Aron J. Beekman , Naoto Nagaosa

Recent experiments have reported on controlled nucleation of individual skyrmions in chiral magnets. Here we show that in magnetic ultra-thin films with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, single skyrmions of different radii can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-14 Sebastian A. Diaz , Daniel P. Arovas