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Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin swirling vertices, which are promising in device applications due to their particle-like nature and excellent controlability. Magnetic skyrmions have been extensively studied in a variety…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-10 Fawei Zheng

Thin-film sub-5 nm magnetic skyrmions constitute an ultimate scaling alternative for future digital data storage. Skyrmions are robust non-collinear spin-textures that can be moved and manipulated by small electrical currents. We show here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 Dax M. Crum , Mohammed Bouhassoune , Juba Bouaziz , Benedikt Schweflinghaus , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures known for their robustness against perturbations. Their topological stability makes them robust information carriers, ideal for tackling a key challenge in quantum computing:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Haowen Yang , Gerald Bissell , Han Zhong , Peter Van Kirk , Tiger Cao , Pengcheng Lu , Yingying Wu

Recent developments in the magnetization dynamics in spin textures, particularly skyrmions, offer promising new directions for magnetic storage technologies and spintronics. Skyrmions, characterized by their topological protection and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-21 Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Seung-Cheol Lee

Fast and efficient switching of nanomagnets is one of the main challenges in the development of future magnetic memories. We numerically investigate the evolution of the static and dynamic spin wave (SW) magnetization in short (50-400 nm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Diego Caso , Pablo Tuero , Javier Garcia , Konstantin Y. Guslienko , Farkhad G. Aliev

Nonlinear phenomena in physical systems can be used for brain-inspired computing with low energy consumption. Response from the dynamics of a topological spin structure called skyrmion is one of the candidates for such a neuromorphic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Tomoyuki Yokouchi , Satoshi Sugimoto , Bivas Rana , Shinichiro Seki , Naoki Ogawa , Yuki Shiomi , Shinya Kasai , Yoshichika Otani

A diode, a device allowing unidirectional signal transmission, is a fundamental element of logic structures and lies in the heart of modern information systems. Spin wave or magnon, representing a collective quasi-particle excitation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-06 Jin Lan , Weichao Yu , Ruqian Wu , Jiang Xiao

Unidirectional motion of magnetic domain walls is the key concept underlying next-generation domain-wall-mediated memory and logic devices. Such motion has been achieved either by injecting large electric currents into nanowires or by…

Magnetic domain walls (DWs) are widely regarded as classical objects in physics community, even though the concepts of electron spins and spin-spin exchange interaction are quantum mechanical in nature. One intriguing question is whether…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 H. Y. Yuan , Man-Hong Yung , X. R. Wang

We present a design-scheme for ultra-low power neuromorphic hardware using emerging spin-devices. We propose device models for 'neuron', based on lateral spin valves and domain wall magnets that can operate at ultra-low terminal voltage of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-07-19 Mrigank Sharad , Charles Augustine , Georgios Panagopoulos , Kaushik Roy

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

We study current induced magnetization dynamics in a long thin ferromagnetic wire with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We find a spiral domain wall configuration of the magnetization and obtain an analytical expression for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-06 Oleg A. Tretiakov , Ar. Abanov

Magnetic skyrmions are promising for building next-generation magnetic memories and spintronic devices due to their stability, small size and the extremely low currents needed to move them. In particular, skyrmion-based racetrack memory is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-14 Xichao Zhang , G. P. Zhao , Hans Fangohr , J. Ping Liu , W. X. Xia , J. Xia , F. J. Morvan

The desire to perform information processing, computation, communication, signal generation and related tasks, while dissipating as little energy as possible, has inspired many ideas and paradigms. One of the most powerful among them is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Jayasimha Atulasimha , Anjan Barman

Magnetic skyrmions are topological solitons that exhibit an increased stability against annihilation, and can be displaced with low current densities, making them a promising candidate as an information carrier. In order to demonstrate a…

Learning and pattern recognition inevitably requires memory of previous events, a feature that conventional CMOS hardware needs to artificially simulate. Dynamical systems naturally provide the memory, complexity, and nonlinearity needed…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Oscar Lee , Robin Msiska , Maarten A. Brems , Mathias Klaui , Hidekazu Kurebayashi , Karin Everschor-Sitte

A global picture of magnetic domain wall (DW) propagation in a nanowire driven by a magnetic field is obtained: A static DW cannot exist in a homogeneous magnetic nanowire when an external magnetic field is applied. Thus, a DW must vary…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 X. R. Wang , P. Yan , J. Lu , C. He

Magnetic skyrmions are textures behaving as quasiparticles which are topologically different from other states. Their discovery in systems with broken inversion symmetry sparked the search for materials containing such magnetic phase at…

Magnetic skyrmions are nontrivial spin textures which resist external perturbations, being promising candidates for the next generation recording devices. Nevertheless, a major challenge in realizing skyrmion-based devices is the…

Topological textures in magnetic and electric materials are considered to be promising candidates for next-generation information technology and unconventional computing. Here, we discuss how the physical properties of topological nanoscale…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Karin Everschor-Sitte , Atreya Majumdar , Katharina Wolk , Dennis Meier