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Axisymmetric magnetic lines of nanometer sizes (chiral vortices or skyrmions) have been predicted to exist in a large group of noncentrosymmetric crystals more than two decades ago. Recently these magnetic textures have been directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 N. S. Kiselev , A. N. Bogdanov , R. Schäfer , U. K. Rößler

We study axially symmetrical 3D skyrmionic particles (torons, hopfions) in a thin homeotropic cell filled with a cholesteric liquid crystal. In this case, the contribution of the chirality term on far distances becomes small and a 3D…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-13 S. B. Chernyshuk , Ye. G. Rudnikov

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

Skyrmions, topologically protected vortex-like nanometric spin textures in magnets, have been attracting increasing attention for emergent electromagnetic responses and possible technological applications for spintronics. In particular,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Y. Tokunaga , X. Z. Yu , J. S. White , H. M. Rønnow , D. Morikawa , Y. Taguchi , Y. Tokura

The realization of magnetic skyrmions in nanostructures holds great promise for both fundamental research and device applications. Despite recent progress, intrinsic magnetic skyrmions in two-dimensional lattice are still rarely explored.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-11 Wenhui Du , Kaiying Dou , Zhonglin He , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

Magnetic monopoles, despite their ongoing experimental search as elementary particles, have inspired the discovery of analogous excitations in condensed matter systems. In chiral condensed matter systems, emergent monopoles are responsible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-11 Jung-Shen B. Tai , Andrew J. Hess , Jin-Sheng Wu , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Two-dimensional chiral magnets are known to host a variety of skyrmions, characterized by an integer topological charge. However, these systems typically favor uniform lattices as a thermodynamically stable phase composed of either…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Sayan Banik , Nikolai S. Kiselev , Ashis K. Nandy

A skyrmion state in a non-centrosymmetric helimagnet displays topologically protected spin textures with profound technological implications for high density information storage, ultrafast spintronics, and effective microwave devices.…

Chiral liquid crystals exhibit in-plane spontaneous polarizations, however in their smectic phase the primary order parameter is a tilt vector associated with molecular rotations around the long molecular axis parallel to the director. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-17 Alain M. Dikandé , Bernard Y. Nyanga , S. E. Mkam Tchouobiap

We present a comprehensive micromagnetic model of isolated axisymmetric skyrmions in magnetic multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy. Most notably, the essential role of the internal dipolar field is extensively considered with a minimum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 William Legrand , Nathan Ronceray , Nicolas Reyren , Davide Maccariello , Vincent Cros , Albert Fert

Magnetic vortices and skyrmions represent two fundamental classes of topological spin textures in ferromagnetic systems, distinguished by their unique stabilization mechanisms and degrees of freedom. Vortices, characterized by circular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Haobing Zhang , Xintao Fan , Weiwei Wang

A chiral bobber is a localized three-dimensional magnetization configuration, terminated by a singularity. Chiral bobbers coexist with magnetic skyrmions in chiral magnets, lending themselves to new types of skyrmion-complementary bits of…

We show that skyrmions on the surface of a magnetic topological insulator may experience an attractive interaction that leads to the formation of a skyrmion-skyrmion bound state. This is in contrast to the case of skyrmions in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Kunal L. Tiwari , J. Lavoie , T. Pereg-Barnea , W. A. Coish

The development and characterization of three-dimensional (3D) topological magnetic textures has become an important topic in modern magnetism both for fundamental and technological perspectives. Among the novel 3D spin textures, skyrmionic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 M. Grelier , R. Battistelli , H. Popescu , F. Godel , A. Vecchiola , S. Collin , C. Léveillé , K. Bouzehouane , F. Büttner , V. Cros , N. Jaouen , N. Reyren

We report on various magnetic configurations including spirals and skyrmions at the surface of the magnetic insulator Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$ at low temperatures with a magnetic field applied along <100> using resonant elastic X-ray scattering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-01 S. Mehboodi , V. Ukleev , C. Luo , R. Abrudan , F. Radu , C. H. Back , A. Aqeel

Recently, there has been substantial interest in realizations of skyrmions, in particular in 2D systems due to increased stability resulting from reduced dimensionality. A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Utkan Güngördü , Rabindra Nepal , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Kirill Belashchenko , Alexey A. Kovalev

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like spin-swirling objects ubiquitously realized in magnets. They are topologically stable chiral kinks composed of multiple modulation waves of spiral spin structures, where the helicity of each spiral is…

The unusual magnetic behaviour of helimagnet MnSi, noticed in recent years, prompted the suspicion that the magnetic states arising in such crystals are of topological nature. Recent experiments based on the topological Hall effect…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-06-18 Anjan Kundu

Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture stabilized by the protection due to their topology. In most cases they are induced by chiral interactions between atomic spins existing in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-21 Albert Fert , Nicolas Reyren , Vincent Cros

Skyrmionic states in noncentrosymmetric magnets with Lifshitz invariants are investigated within the phenomenological Dzyaloshinskii model. The interaction between the chiral Skyrmions, being repulsive in a broad temperature range, changes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-20 A. A. Leonov , A. N. Bogdanov , U. K. Roessler