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The uniform motion of chiral magnetic skyrmions induced by a spin-transfer torque displays an intricate dependence on the skyrmions' topological charge and shape. We reveal surprising patterns in this dependence through simulations of the…

In chiral magnets without inversion symmetry, the magnetic structure can form a lattice of magnetic whirl lines, a two-dimensional skyrmion lattice, stabilized by spin-orbit interactions in a small range of temperatures and magnetic fields.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Karin Everschor , Markus Garst , R. A. Duine , Achim Rosch

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like chiral spin textures found in a magnetic film with out-of-planeanisotropy and are considered to be potential candidates as information carriers in next generationdata storage devices. Despite intense…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 S. Saha , M. Zelent , S. Finizio , M. Mruczkiewicz , S. Tacchi , A. K. Suszka , S. Wintz , N. S. Bingham , J. Raabe , M. Krawczyk , L. J. Heyderman

A model of spin torque induced magnetization dynamics based upon semi-classical spin diffusion theory for a single layer nanocontact is presented. The model incorporates effects due to the current induced Oersted field and predicts the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 M. A. Hoefer , T. J. Silva , M. D. Stiles

Equilibrium magnetization distribution of the vortex state magnetic nanoparticle is affected by the influence of the spin-transfer torque: an off-center out--of--plane vortex appears in the case of the disk shape particle and pure planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Franz G. Mertens , Yuri Gaididei

The nonlinear dynamic behavior of a magnetic skyrmion in circular nanodots was studied numerically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with a classical spin model. We show that a skyrmion core reversal can be achieved within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 Bin Zhang , Weiwei Wang , Marijan Beg , Hans Fangohr , Wolfgang Kuch

Magnetic skyrmions are stable topological solitons with complex non-coplanar spin structures. Their nanoscopic size and the low electric currents required to initiate and control their motion has opened a new field of research, skyrmionics,…

The magnetization reversal in 330 nm triangular prismatic magnetic nanoelements with variable magnetocrystalline anisotropy similar to that of partially chemically ordered FePt is studied using micromagnetic simulations employing Finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Leonidas N. Gergidis , Vasileios D. Stavrou , Drosos Kourounis , Ioannis Panagiotopoulos

Skyrmions are particle-like spin textures that arise from spin spiral states in the presence of an external magnetic field. These spirals can originate from either frustrated Heisenberg exchange interactions or the interplay between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Timo Knispel , Vasily Tseplyaev , Gustav Bihlmayer , Stefan Blügel , Thomas Michely , Jeison Fischer

The dynamics of vortex states in confined geometries like thin-film disks are characterized by a sub-GHz gyration, representing the damped oscillatory motion of the vortex core about the disk center. It has recently been shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Gauthier Philippe , Joo-Von Kim

Skyrmions are topological structures defined by a winding vector configuration that yields a quantized topological charge. In magnetic materials, skyrmions manifest as stable, mobile spin textures, positioning them at the forefront of…

Magnetic ultrathin films grown on heavy metal substrates often exhibit rich spin structures due to the competition between various magnetic interactions such as Heisenberg exchange, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and higher-order spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Yulong Yang , Mingming Shuai , Haiming Huang , Rui Song , Yi Zhu , Yanghui Liao , Yinyan Zhu , Xiaodong Zhou , Lifeng Yin , Jian Shen

Magnetic skyrmions are quasiparticle configurations in a magnetic film that can act as information carrying bits for ultrasmall, all-electronic nonvolatile memory. The skyrmions can be nucleated and driven by spin-orbit torque from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Hamed Vakili , Yunkun Xie , Avik W. Ghosh

We theoretically investigate field-induced switching of magnetic topology in a nanodisk-shaped sample of noncentrosymmetric dipolar magnet in which the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction that stabilizes an antiskyrmion with $N_{\rm sk}$=+1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Tatsuki Muto , Masahito Mochizuki

Magnetic skyrmions are two-dimensional non-collinear spin textures characterised by an integer topological number. They commonly crystallise at low temperatures in bulk noncentrosymmetric ferromagnets where the lack of inversion symmetry…

In epitaxial MnSi/Si(111) films, the in-plane magnetization saturation is never reached due to the formation of specific surface chiral modulations with the propagation direction perpendicular to the film surfaces [Wilson et al. Phys. Rev.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. A. Meynell , M. N. Wilson , H. Fritzsche , A. N. Bogdanov , T. L. Monchesky

We explore the dynamics of spiral spin waves in Permalloy nano-elements with variable aspect ratio of geometric dimensions, and their potential use as improved spin wave emitters with no or little biasing field required. Numerical results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 D. Osuna Ruiz , E. Burgos Parra , N. Bukin , M. Heath , A. Lara , F. G. Aliev , A. P. Hibbins , F. Y. Ogrin

Micromagnetic calculations demonstrate a peculiar evolution of non-axisymmetric skyrmions driven by an applied magnetic field in confined helimagnets with longitudinal modulations. We argue that these specific solitonic states can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 A. O. Leonov , J. C. Loudon , A. N. Bogdanov

In this paper we numerically conduct micromagnetic modelling to optimize computational boundaries of magnetic thin-film elements applicable to single and double point contact spin torque nano-oscillators. Different boundary conditions have…

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures promising for future high-density and nonvolatile memory. It is crucial to understand the current-driven skyrmion dynamics in the presence of deformation, of which an analytical model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Zehan Chen , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Qiming Shao