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Skyrmions are particle-like topological textures that hold great promise for low-power electronics and wave-based functionalities. Yet their utility is hindered by the lack of robust and controllable transport. Here, we show that band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Lei Liu , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Magnetic skyrmionium is a skyrmion-like spin texture with nanoscale size and high mobility. It is a topologically trivial but dynamically stable structure, which can be used as a non-volatile information carrier for next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Xue Liang , Xichao Zhang , Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Motohiko Ezawa , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures with attractive features, such as ultra-small size, solitonic nature, and easy mobility with small electrical currents that make them promising as information-carrying bits in low-power…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Md Golam Morshed , Hamed Vakili , Avik W. Ghosh

The topologically protected magnetic spin configurations known as skyrmions offer promising applications due to their stability, mobility and localization. In this work, we emphasize how to leverage the thermally driven dynamics of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Daniele Pinna , Flavio Abreu Araujo , Joo-Von Kim , Vincent Cros , Damien Querlioz , Perre Bessiere , Jacques Droulez , Julie Grollier

A skyrmion racetrack design is proposed that allows for thermally stable skyrmions to code information and dynamical pinning sites that move with the applied current. This concept solves the problem of intrinsic distributions of pinning…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-24 Dieter Suess , Christoph Vogler , Florian Bruckner , Claas Abert

Domain walls are the transition regions between two magnetic domains. These objects have been very relevant during the last decade, not only due to their intrinsic interest in the development of novel spintronics devices but also because of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Oscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez

A moving magnetic skyrmion exhibits transverse deflection. This so-called skyrmion Hall effect has been explained by the Thiele equation. Here, we provide an alternative interpretation of the skyrmion Hall effect based on the dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Kyoung-Woong Moon , Jungbum Yoon , Changsoo Kim , Jae-Hun Sim , Se Kwon Kim , Soong-Geun Je , Chanyong Hwang

We numerically simulate the formation of $(2+1)$-dimensional baby Skyrmions and $(3+1)$-dimensional $SU(2)$ Skyrmions from domain wall collisions. It has been suggested that Skyrmion, anti-Skyrmion pairs can be produced from the interaction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-28 Thomas Winyard

Skyrmions have attracted rapidly growing interest due to their topological properties and unique aspects for potential novel applications such as data storage and soft robotics. They can also serve as key elements for materials by design,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-20 Ayhan Duzgun , Avadh Saxena , Jonathan V. Selinger

Skyrmions, topologically stable magnetic solitons characterized by whirling magnetization in nanoscale magnetic elements, show promise information carriers in spintronics and spin-based quantum computing due to their unique properties:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Suyeong Jeong , Dae-Han Jung , Hee-Sung Han , Ganghwi Kim , Myeonghwan Kang , Mi-Young Im , Younggun Park , Ki-Suk Lee

The generation of topologically non-trivial magnetic configurations has been a pivotal topic in both basic and applied nanomagnetism research. Localized non-coplanar magnetic defects such as skyrmions or merons were found to interact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Reiner Brüning , Levente Rózsa , Roberto Lo Conte , André Kubetzka , Roland Wiesendanger , Kirsten von Bergmann

Skyrmions have been proposed as new information carriers in racetrack memory devices. To realise such devices, a small size; high speed of propagation; and minimal skyrmion Hall angle are required. Synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Christopher E. A. Barker , Charles Parton-Barr , Christopher H. Marrows , Olga Kazakova , Craig Barton

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic spin structures exhibiting particle-like behaviour. They are of strong interest from a fundamental viewpoint and for application, where they have potential to act as information carriers in future…

Arising from emergent electromagnetic field of magnetic skyrmions due to their nontrivial topology, the skyrmion Hall effect might be a roadblock for practical applications since any longitudinal motions of skyrmions in nanotrack is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Motohiko Ezawa

Skyrmions are nanoscale magnetic structures with features promising for future low-power memory or logic devices. In this work, we demonstrate novel scanning techniques based on nitrogen vacancy center magnetometry that simultaneously probe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Alec Jenkins , Matthew Pelliccione , Guoqiang Yu , Xin Ma , Xiaoqin Li , Kang L. Wang , Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich

We examine skyrmions under a dc drive interacting with a square array of obstacles for varied obstacle size and damping. When the drive is applied in a fixed direction, we find that the skyrmions are initially guided in the drive direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 N. P. Vizarim , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas

In this paper we investigate a magnetic racetrack consisting of a junction of three materials with different properties. Indeed, this magnetic system is composed by two distinct regions (racetracks) connected by a thin interface: the first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 R. C. Silva , R. L. Silva , A. R. Pereira

Magnetic skyrmionium is a novel magnetization configuration with zero skyrmion number, which is composed by two skyrmions with opposite skyrmion number. Here, we study the dynamics of skyrmionium under an anisotropy gradient. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Chengkun Song , Chendong Jin , Yunxu Ma , Jinshuai Wang , Haiyan Xia , Jianbo Wang , Qingfang Liu

Magnetic skyrmions have been the focus of intense research with promising applications in memory, logic and interconnect technology. Several schemes have been recently proposed and demonstrated to nucleate skyrmions. However, they either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Sourav Dutta , Dmitri E. Nikonov , George Bourianoff , Sasikanth Manipatruni , Ian A. Young , Azad Naeemi

Exotic spin textures viz. chiral domain wall, vortices, skyrmion, skyrmionium, etc. have recently emerged as active field of research because of their potential applications in high density data storage technology and logic gate computing.…