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Magnetic skyrmions are localized magnetic structures that retain their shape and stability over time, thanks to their topological nature. Recent theoretical and experimental progress has laid the groundwork for understanding magnetic…

Skyrmions are of interest both from a fundamental and technological point of view, due to their potential to act as information carriers. But one challenge concerns their manipulation, especially at high temperature where thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-13 H. Diego Rosales , Flavia A. Gómez Albarracín , Pierre Pujol , Ludovic D. C. Jaubert

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures that hold great promise as nanoscale information carriers. Since their first observation at room temperature, progress has been made in their current-induced manipulation, with fast motion…

In the present research, we demonstrate the usage of plasmonic effects in thin film structures to control magnetic topological textures, specifically skyrmions and skyrmioniums. We investigate numerically the generation and alteration of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 W. Al Saidi , R. Sbiaa , Y. Dusch , N. Tiercelin

Magnetic skyrmions have so far been treated as two-dimensional spin structures characterized by a topological winding number describing the rotation of spins across the skyrmion. However, in real systems with a finite thickness of the…

Magnetic skyrmions, renowned for their fascinating electromagnetic properties, hold potential for next-generation topological spintronic devices. Recent advancements have unveiled a rich tapestry of 3D topological magnetism. Nevertheless,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Yaodong Wu , Jialiang Jiang , Weiwei Wang , Lingyao Kong , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du , Jin Tang

Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasiparticles with great potential for applications in future information storage and processing devices because of their nanoscale size, high stability, and large velocity. Recently, the high-frequency…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Xing Chen , Wang Kang , Daoqian Zhu , Na Lei , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Youguang Zhang , Weisheng Zhao

Magnetic skyrmions are swirling magnetic textures that can be efficiently driven with spin-orbit torques with a deflected trajectory. However, pinning slows skyrmions down and alters their trajectory, which prevents a quantitative…

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…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically-distinct swirls of magnetic moments which display particle-like behaviour, including the ability to undergo thermally-driven diffusion. In this paper we study the thermally activated motion of arrays of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Yifan Zhou , Rhodri Mansell , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Sebastiaan van Dijken

Skyrmions are topological solitons that emerge in many physical contexts. In magnetism, they appear as textures of the spin-density field stabilized by different competing interactions and characterized by a topological charge that counts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Hector Ochoa , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

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

Creating materials that do not exist in nature can lead to breakthroughs in science and technology. Magnetic skyrmions are topological excitations that have attracted great attention recently for their potential applications in low power,…

Skyrmions are topologically protected, two-dimensional, localized hedgehogs and whorls of spin. Originally invented as a concept in field theory for nuclear interactions, skyrmions are central to a wide range of phenomena in condensed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 M. Raju , A. Yagil , Anjan Soumyanarayanan , Anthony K. C. Tan , A. Almoalem , O. M. Auslaender , C. Panagopoulos

Magnetic skyrmion bags with diverse topological charges Q, offer prospects for future spintronic devices based on freedom of Q. While their emergence in van der Waals magnets holds the potential in developing Q-based 2D topological…

Optical skyrmions are members of the emerging topological branch of solid-state physics and photonics, allowing for control over topological light textures through light-matter interactions. However, in nanophotonics their practical…

Chiral magnetic textures in ultrathin perpendicularly magnetised multilayer film stacks with an interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction have been the focus of much research recently. The chirality associated with the broken inversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 K. Fallon , S. McVitie , W. Legrand , F. Ajejas , D. Maccariello , S. Collin , V. Cros , N. Reyren

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

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…

Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates for future storage devices with a large data density. A great variety of materials have been found that host skyrmions up to the room-temperature regime. Lorentz microscopy, usually performed in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Simon Pöllath , Tao Lin , Na Lei , Weisheng Zhao , Josef Zweck , Christian H. Back