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Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasi particles of great interest for data storage applications because of their small size, high stability, and ease of manipulation via electric current. Theoretically, however, skyrmions are poorly…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-20 Felix Büttner , Ivan Lemesh , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

The search for chiral magnetic textures in systems lacking spatial inversion symmetry has attracted a massive amount of interest in the recent years with the real space observation of novel exotic magnetic phases such as skyrmions lattices,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-06 Abderrezak Belabbes , Gustav Bihlmayer , Stefan Blügel , Aurelien Manchon

We report deterministic operations on single dipolar skyrmions confined in nanostructured cuboids using in-plane currents. We achieve highly reversible writing and deleting of skyrmions in the simple cuboid without any artificial defects or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Jin Tang , Jialiang Jiang , Yaodong Wu , Lingyao Kong , Yihao Wang , Junbo Li , Y. Soh , Yimin Xiong , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du

Skyrmions are widely regarded as promising candidates for emergent spintronic devices. Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is often critical to the generation and manipulation of skyrmions. However, there is a fundamental lack of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 Priyamvada Jadaun , Leonard F Register , Sanjay K Banerjee

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

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures, stabilised in systems with strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Several studies have shown that electrical currents can move skyrmions efficiently through spin-orbit…

Topological spin textures are characterized by topological magnetic charges, Q, which govern their electromagnetic properties. Recent studies have achieved skyrmion bundles with arbitrary integer values of Q, opening possibilities for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yongsen Zhang , Jin Tang , Yaodong Wu , Meng Shi , Xitong Xu , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du

Skyrmions are spin-swirling textures hosting wonderful properties with potential implications in information technology. Such magnetic particles carry a magnetization, whose amplitude is crucial to establish them as robust magnetic bits,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Imara Lima Fernandes , Samir Lounis

The recent discovery of tunable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in layered magnetic materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy makes them promising candidates for stabilization and manipulation of skyrmions at elevated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-17 Rick Keesman , A. O. Leonov , P. van Dieten , Stefan Buhrandt , G. T. Barkema , Lars Fritz , R. A. Duine

We study the geometrical conditions for stabilizing magnetic skyrmions in cylindrical nanostrips and nanotubes of ferromagnetic materials with chiral interactions. We obtain the low-temperature equilibrium state of the system implementing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-28 Dimitris Kechrakos , Lida Tzannetou , Aristotelis Patsopoulos

Magnetic skyrmions are hailed as a potential technology for data storage and other data processing devices. However, their stability against thermal fluctuations is an open question that must be answered before skyrmion-based devices can be…

Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions have interesting static and transport properties that make them candidates for future spintronic devices. Control and manipulation of the size and behavior of skyrmions is thus of crucial importance. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Steven S. -L. Zhang , C. Phatak , A. K. Petford-Long , O. G. Heinonen

We present a comprehensive study of current-driven dynamics, transformations, and instabilities of skyrmioniums in chiral magnetic films, considering both isolated objects and collective states forming skyrmionium-based meta-matter. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Kaito Nakamura , Yuka Kotorii , Andrey O. Leonov

Magnetization dynamics driven by an electric field could provide long-term benefits to information technologies because of its ultralow power consumption. Meanwhile, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in interfacially asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Chuang Ma , Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Motohiko Ezawa , Wanjun Jiang , Teruo Ono , S. N. Piramanayagam , Akimitsu Morisako , Yan Zhou , Xiaoxi Liu

A magnetic skyrmionium is a nontopological soliton, which has a doughnut-like out-of-plane spin texture in thin films, and can be phenomenologically viewed as a coalition of two topological magnetic skyrmions with opposite topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-22 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Yan Zhou , Daowei Wang , Xiaoxi Liu , Weisheng Zhao , Motohiko Ezawa

Recently spin textures called skyrmions have been discovered in certain chiral magnetic materials without spatial inversion symmetry, and have attracted enormous attention due to their promising application in spintronics since only a low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-18 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

Skyrmion nucleation induced by spin-transfer torques at an interface of a topological insulator and a ferromagnetic insulator is investigated. Due to strong spin-orbit coupling on a surface of topological insulators, which enhances the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Daichi Kurebayashi , Oleg A. Tretiakov

Magnetic skyrmions hold promise for spintronic devices. To explore the dynamical properties of skyrmions in devices, a nanoscale method to image spin textures in response to a stimulus is essential. Here, we apply a technique for operando…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Albert M. Park , Zhen Chen , Xiyue S. Zhang , Lijun Zhu , David A. Muller , Gregory D. Fuchs

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.…

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