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The time evolution of many physical, chemical, and biological systems can be modelled by stochastic transitions between the minima of the potential energy surface describing the system of interest. We show that in cases where there are two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-11 S. P. Fitzgerald , A. Bailey Hass , G. Díaz Leines , A. J. Archer

We report the direct measurement of the topological skyrmion energy barrier through a hysteresis of the skyrmion lattice in the chiral magnet MnSi. Measurements were made using small-angle neutron scattering with a custom-built resistive…

A magnetic skyrmion is a topological object that can exist as a solitary embedded in the vast ferromagnetic phase, or coexists with a group of its "siblings" in various stripy phases as well as skyrmion crystals (SkXs). Isolated skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 H. T. Wu , X. C. Hu , K. Y. Jing , X. R. Wang

We present eight cosmological dark matter (DM)--only zoom-in simulations of a Milky Way--like system that include suppression of the linear matter power spectrum $P(k)$, and/or velocity-dependent DM self-interactions, as the third…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ethan O. Nadler , Rui An , Daneng Yang , Hai-Bo Yu , Andrew Benson , Vera Gluscevic

The minimum energy path (MEP) is the most probable transition path that connects two equilibrium states of a potential energy landscape. It has been widely used to study transition mechanisms as well as transition rates in the fields of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Xuanyu Liu , Huajie Chen , Christoph Ortner

The path-integral representation of Smoluchowski equation is exploited to explore the stochastic dynamics of a tagged Brownian particle within an interacting system where hydrodynamic effects are neglected. In particular, this formalism is…

Since the 1950s, topological solitons have been used to describe elementary particles[1-3] and particle-like field configurations[4-13] that appear in almost all branches of physics ranging from subatomic to cosmological scales[3,14-16]. In…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-11-08 Yangfan Hu

The degradation of classical and quantum structured light induced by complex media constitutes a critical barrier to its practical implementation in a range of applications, from communication and energy transport to imaging and sensing.…

Chiral spin textures are fundamentally interesting, with promise for device applications. Stabilizing chirality is conventionally achieved by introducing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in asymmetric multilayers where the thickness…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-25 Gong Chen , Colin Ophus , Roberto Lo Conte , Roland Wiesendanger , Gen Yin , Andreas K. Schmid , Kai Liu

Magnetic and polar skyrmions exhibit topologically protected quasiparticle behavior, including emergent fields, deformation, and the formation of a densely packed skyrmion lattice, beyond conventional domain configurations described by…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Kohta Kasai , Akihiro Uematsu , Tatsuki Kawakane , Yu Wang , Tao Xu , Chang Liu , Susumu Minami , Takahiro Shimada

An analytical expression for the energy of N\'eel skyrmions in ultra-thin nanodots considering exchange, uniaxial anisotropy, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya, and dipolar contributions has been obtained. In particular, we have proposed for the N\'eel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 N Vidal-Silva , A Riveros , J Escrig

We develop a new perturbation theory (PT) treatment that can describe gravitational dynamics of large-scale structure after shell-crossing in the one-dimensional cosmological case. Starting with cold initial conditions, the motion of matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Atsushi Taruya , Stéphane Colombi

We determine sizes and activation energies of k{\pi}-skyrmions on a discrete lattice using the Landau- Lifshitz-Gilbert equation and the geodesic nudged elastic band method. The employed atomic material parameters are based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Julian Hagemeister , Ansgar Siemens , Levente Rózsa , Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Roland Wiesendanger

We present a scaling theory describing the collapse of a homopolymer chain in poor solvent. At time t after the beginning of the collapse, the original Gaussian chain of length N is streamlined to form N/g segments of length R(t), each…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Cameron F. Abrams , Namkyung Lee , Sergei Obukhov

We present a combined analytical and numerical micromagnetic study of the equilibrium energy, size and shape of anti-skyrmionic magnetic configurations. Anti-skyrmions can be stabilized when the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction has…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-18 Lorenzo Camosi , Nicolas Rougemaille , Olivier Fruchart , Jan Vogel , Stanislas Rohart

We determined the parameters of a classical spin Hamiltonian describing an Fe monolayer on Pd(111) surface with a Pt_{1-x}Ir_{x} alloy overlayer from ab initio calculations. While the ground state of the system is ferromagnetic for x=0.00,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Levente Rózsa , András Deák , Eszter Simon , Rocio Yanes , László Udvardi , László Szunyogh , Ulrich Nowak

The lifetimes of magnetic hopfions on a discrete lattice with competing exchange interactions are calculated within the framework of the transition state theory for magnetic degrees of freedom. Three sets of discrete model parameters…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-15 Igor Lobanov , Valery Uzdin

Determination of the energy of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction along with a definition of the basic magnetic characteristics in ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic multilayered systems are both required for the construction of a magnetic skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 A. G. Kozlov , A. G. Kolesnikov , M. E. Stebliy , A. V. Davydenko

Breaking the dilemma between small size and room temperature stability is a necessary prerequisite for skyrmion-based information technology. Here we demonstrate by means of rate theory and an atomistic spin Hamiltonian that the stability…

A method for finding minimum energy paths of transitions in magnetic systems is presented and used to determine the mechanism and estimate the activation energy of skyrmion and antivortex annihiliation in nano-systems. The path is optimized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Pavel F. Bessarab , Valery M. Uzdin , Hannes Jónsson