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Two-dimensional (2D) multiferroic materials with coexisting ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism have garnered substantial attention for their intriguing physical properties and diverse promising applications in spintronics. For example,…

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We report the current-driven dynamics of frustrated skyrmions in an antiferromagnetically exchange coupled bilayer system, where the bilayer skyrmion consists of two monolayer skyrmions with opposite skyrmion numbers $Q$. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-18 Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Zhipeng Hou , Wenhong Wang , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmion, vortex-like swirling topologically stable spin configurations, is appealing as information carrier for future nanoelectronics, owing to the stability, small size and extremely low driving current density. One of the most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Wang Kang , Yangqi Huang , Chentian Zheng , Weifeng Lv , Na Lei , Youguang Zhang , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Weisheng Zhao

Spin-driven multiferroics exhibit strong magnetoelectric coupling, with notable polarization changes under a magnetic field, but these effects are usually limited to high-Z magnetic insulators with low electronic polarization. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Ranquan Cao , Ruizhi Dong , Ruixiang Fei , Yugui Yao

Spintronics, a transformative field of research, leverages the spin of electron to revolutionize electronic devices, offering significant advantages over traditional charge-based systems. This chapter highlights the critical role of novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-03 A. Sud , A. Kumar , M. Cubukcu

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

Skyrmions dynamics in the approximation of point-particle skyrmions is considered in the multiferroic insulators, where the spiral magnetic structure is accompanied by finite electric dipole moment. The skyrmion motion is studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Pavel A. Andreev , Mariya Iv. Trukhanova

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

Motivated by the observation of Skyrmion-like magnetic textures in 2D itinerant ferromagnets Fe$_n$GeTe$_2$ ($n \geq3$), we develop a microscopic model combining itinerant magnetism and spin-orbit coupling on a triangular lattice. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-11 Deepti Rana , Soumyaranjan Dash , Monika Bhakar , Rajeshwari Roy Chowdhury , Ravi Prakash Singh , Sanjeev Kumar , Goutam Sheet

The topological properties of quasiparticles, such as skyrmions and vortices, have the potential to offer extraordinary metastability through topological protection, and drive motion with minimal electrical current excitation. This has…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-29 Nimish P. Nazirkar , Sowmya Srinivasan , Ross Harder , Edwin Fohtung

Skyrmions are prospected as the potential future of data storage due to their topologically protected spin structures. However, traditional ferromagnetic (FM) skyrmions experience deflection when driven with an electric current, hindering…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-08 Amal Aldarawsheh , Moritz Sallermann , Muayad Abusaa , Samir Lounis

The index theorem implies that there are fermionic states localized on a soliton. Presence of these modes may significantly alter the pattern of interaction between the solitons. As a particular example we investigate the chiral magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 I. Perapechka , Ya. Shnir

Magnetic ferroelectrics or multiferroics, which are currently extensively explored, may provide a good arena to realize a novel magnetoelectric function. Here we demonstrate the genuine electric control of the spiral magnetic structure in…

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High tunability of two dimensional magnetic materials (by strain, gating, heterostructuring or otherwise) provides unique conditions for studying versatile magnetic properties and controlling emergent magnetic phases. Expanding the scope of…

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We develop a multiscale approach to magnetoelectric effects, bridging atomistic and continuum models, with all parameters determined from ab initio electronic structure calculations. We show that the parameters of the model are equivalent…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Alexander Edström , Paolo Barone , Silvia Picozzi , Massimiliano Stengel

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

Spin manipulation using electric currents is one of the most promising directions in the field of spintronics. We used neutron scattering to observe the influence of an electric current on the magnetic structure in a bulk material. In the…

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Since the experimental discovery of magnetic skyrmions achieved one decade ago, there have been significant efforts to bring the virtual particles into all-electrical fully functional devices, inspired by their fascinating physical and…

Magnetic skyrmions are localized, topologically protected spin-structures that have been proposed for storing or processing information due to their intriguing dynamical and transport properties. Important in terms of applications is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-07 B. Dupé , G. Bihlmayer , S. Blügel , S. Heinze

Skyrmions are nano-sized magnetic whirls attractive for spintronic applications due to their innate stability. They can emulate the characteristic behavior of various spintronic and electronic devices such as spin-torque nano-oscillators,…

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