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It is well known that skyrmions can be driven using spin-orbit torques due to the spin-Hall effect. Here we show an additional contribution in multilayered stacks arises from vertical spin currents due to inter-layer diffusion of a spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-25 Serban Lepadatu

Integrating topologically stabilized magnetic textures such as skyrmions as nanoscale information carriers into future technologies requires the reliable control by electric currents. Here, we uncover that the relevant skyrmion Hall effect,…

We study the dynamics of skyrmions under spin-transfer torque in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya materials with easy-axis anisotropy. In particular, we study the motion of a topological skyrmion with skyrmion number $Q=1$ and a non-topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

We study the magnon spectrum in skyrmion crystal formed in thin ferromagnetic films with Dzyalosinskii-Moria interaction in presence of magnetic field. Focusing on two low-lying observable magnon modes and employing stereographic projection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 V. E. Timofeev , Yu. V. Baramygina , D. N. Aristov

We theoretically study spin and charge transport induced by a twisted light beam irradiated on a disordered surface of a doped three dimensional topological insulator (TI). We find that various types of spin vortices are imprinted on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Kunitaka Shintani , Katsuhisa Taguchi , Yukio Tanaka , Yuki Kawaguchi

We study the topological Hall effect in a diffusive ferromagnetic metal thin film by solving a Boltzmann transport equation in the presence of spin-flip scattering. A generalized spin diffusion equation is derived, which contains an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-20 Steven S. -L. Zhang , Olle Heinonen

We investigate the spin-transfer torque in a magnetic multilayer structure by means of a spin-diffusion model. The torque in the considered system, consisting of two magnetic layers separated by a conducting layer, is caused by a…

Extended numerical simulations enable to ascertain the diffusive behavior at finite temperatures of chiral walls and skyrmions in ultra-thin model Co layers exhibiting symmetric - Heisenberg - as well as antisymmetric -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Jacques Miltat , Stanislas Rohart , André Thiaville

The advent of Moir\'e materials has galvanized interest in the nature of charge carriers in topological bands. In contrast to conventional materials where charge carriers are electron-like quasiparticles, topological bands allow for more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath

The magnetic skyrmion is a nanoscale topological object characterized by the winding of the magnetic moments, appearing in magnetic materials with broken inversion symmetry. Because of its low current threshold for driving, the skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Ryo Iguchi , Shinya Kasai , Kazushige Koshikawa , Norimichi Chinone , Shinsuke Suzuki , Ken-ichi Uchida

We demonstrate numerically on large spin lattices that one can write skyrmions in a thin magnetic film with a magnetic dipole of a few tens of nanometer in size. Nucleation of non-chiral skyrmions as well as chiral skyrmions formed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Dmitry A. Garanin , Daniel Capic , Senfu Zhang , Xixiang Zhang , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

We investigate topological Hall effects in a metallic antiferromagnetic (AFM) thin film and/or at the interface of an AFM insulator-normal metal bilayer with a single skyrmion in the diffusive regime. To determine the spin and charge Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Amir N. Zarezad , Józef Barnaś , Anna Dyrdał , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

The dynamic control of skyrmion properties such as polarity, vorticity, and topological charge is crucial for their implementation in spintronic applications. In this work, we investigate the periodic inversion of the topological charge in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 R. L. Silva , R. C. Silva

The surfaces of intrinsic magnetic topological insulators (TIs) host magnetic moments exchange-coupled to Dirac electrons. We study the magnetic phases arising from tuning the electron density using variational and exact diagonalization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-23 Nisarga Paul , Liang Fu

This article reviews the principles that govern the combined transport of spin, heat, and charge. The extensive thermodynamic quantity associated with spin transport is the magnetization; its Onsager-conjugate force is in general the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-09 Joseph P. Heremans

We study superfluidlike spin transport facilitated by thermal diffusion of magnetic domain walls, where the positive and negative chiralities of domain walls act as opposite topological charges. The topological charge conservation leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Alexey A. Kovalev , Bo Li , Edward Schwartz

The topological Hall effect is a hallmark of topologically non-trivial magnetic textures such as magnetic skyrmions. It quantifies the transverse electric current that is generated once an electric field is applied and occurs as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Börge Göbel , Lennart Schimpf , Ingrid Mertig

We theoretically study the spin and charge generation along with the electron transport on a disordered surface of a doped three-dimensional topological insulator/magnetic insulator junction by using Green's function techniques. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Katsuhisa Taguchi , Kunitaka Shintani , Yukio Tanaka

We investigate the spin-pumping-induced electric current on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator hybridized with a ferromagnet, namely, ferromagnetic topological insulator. In order to do this, we establish the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Yusuke Hama , Kentaro Nomura

We investigate the torque field and skyrmion movement at an interface between a ferromagnet hosting a skyrmion and a material with strong spin-orbit interaction. We analyze both semiconductor materials and topological insulators using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-08 Javier Osca , Bart Sorée