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Recently, it has been shown that the chiral magnetic insulator Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$ hosts skyrmions in two separated pockets in temperature and magnetic field phase space. It has also been shown that the predominant stabilization mechanism for…

Uniquely in Cu2OSeO3, the Skyrmions, which are topologically protected magnetic spin vortex-like objects, display a magnetoelectric coupling and can be manipulated by externally applied electric (E) fields. Here, we explore the E-field…

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Magnetic skyrmion bags, as high-order topological swirling spin textures, offer rich fundamental physics and distinct advantages for spintronic applications; however, their realization remains a formidable challenge, especially in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Junhuang Yang , Kaiying Dou , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions have interesting static and transport properties that make them candidates for future spintronic devices. Control and manipulation of the size and behavior of skyrmions is thus of crucial importance. Using a…

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We have used inelastic neutron scattering to measure the magnetic excitation spectrum along the high-symmetry directions of the first Brillouin zone of the magnetic skyrmion hosting compound Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$. The majority of our scattering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-01 G S Tucker , J S White , J Romhányi , D Szaller , I Kézsmárki , B Roessli , U Stuhr , A Magrez , F Groitl , P Babkevich , P Huang , I Živković , H M Rønnow

We employed small-angle neutron scattering to demonstrate that the magnetic skyrmion lattice can be realized in bulk chiral magnets as a thermodynamically stable state at temperatures much lower than the ordering temperature of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-12 A. S. Sukhanov , Praveen Vir , A. Heinemann , S. E. Nikitin , D. Kriegner , H. Borrmann , C. Shekhar , C. Felser , D. S. Inosov

Small angle neutron scattering experiments were performed on a bulk single crystal of chiral-lattice multiferroic insulator Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$. In the absence of an external magnetic field, helical spin order with magnetic modulation vector $q…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-25 S. Seki , J. -H. Kim , D. S. Inosov , R. Georgii , B. Keimer , S. Ishiwata , Y. Tokura

Magnetic skyrmions in chiral magnets are nanoscale, topologically-protected magnetization swirls that are promising candidates for spintronics memory carriers. Therefore, observing and manipulating the skyrmion state on the surface level of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-06 S. L. Zhang , A. Bauer , D. M. Burn , P. Milde , E. Neuber , L. M. Eng , H. Berger , C. Pfleiderer , G. van der Laan , T. Hesjedal

Skyrmions--topologically protected nanoscale spin textures with vortex-like configurations--hold transformative potential for ultra-dense data storage, spintronics and quantum computing. However, their practical utility is challenged by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Lei Liu , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

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…

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Magnetic skyrmion textures are realized mainly in non-centrosymmetric, e.g. chiral or polar, magnets. Extending the field to centrosymmetric bulk materials is a rewarding challenge, where the released helicity / vorticity degree of freedom…

Magnetic skyrmions in chiral-lattice ferromagnets are currently attracting enormous research interest because of their potential applications in spintronic devices. However, they emerge in bulk specimens only in a narrow window of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Kohei Tanaka , Ryosuke Sugawara , Masahito Mochizuki

The topological Hall effect, driven by the exchange interaction between conduction electrons and topological magnetic textures such as skyrmions, is a powerful probe for investigating the topological properties of magnetic materials.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Hyuncheol Kim , Kai-Xuan Zhang , Yu-Hang Li , Giung Park , Ran Cheng , Je-Geun Park

Multi-layered materials provide fascinating platforms to realize various functional properties, possibly leading to future electronic devices controlled by external fields. In particular, layered magnets coupled with conducting layers have…

Ca3Ru2O7 is a correlated and spin-orbit-coupled system with an extraordinary anisotropy. It is both interesting and unique largely because this material exhibits conflicting phenomena that are often utterly inconsistent with traditional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-04 Hengdi Zhao , Hao Zheng , Jasminka Terzic , Wenhai Song , Yifei Ni , Yu Zhang , Pedro Schlottmann , Gang Cao

The skyrmion is a topologically stable spin texture, in which the spin direction wraps a sphere. The topological nature gives rise to emergent electromagnetic phenomena such as topological Hall effect. Recently, the crystallization of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 Y. Onose , Y. Okamura , S. Seki , S. Ishiwata , Y. Tokura

The discovery and manipulation of topological Hall effect (THE), an abnormal magnetoelectric response mostly related to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), are promising for next-generation spintronic devices based on topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-27 Gaojie Zhang , Qingyuan Luo , Xiaokun Wen , Hao Wu , Li Yang , Wen Jin , Luji Li , Jia Zhang , Wenfeng Zhang , Haibo Shu , Haixin Chang

Topological superconductivity is one of most fascinating properties of topological quantum matters that was theoretically proposed and can support Majorana Fermions at the edge state. Superconductivity was previously realized in a…

Various and spontaneous magnetic skyrmionic bubbles are experimentally observed for the first time, at room temperature in a frustrated kagome magnet Fe3Sn2 with unixial magnetic anisotropy. The magnetization dynamics were investigated…

Topological spin textures such as skyrmions hold high potential for use as magnetically active elements in diverse near-future applications. While skyrmions in metallic multilayers attract great attention in this context, unleashing the…