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This paper delves into the origins and specificity of the unique stable spin textures (360{\deg} closed loop domain walls and skyrmions) observed in exchange-biased systems, with either in-plane or out-of-plane magnetic anisotropy. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Bernard Dieny , Olivier Fruchart , Ernesto E. Marinero

Magnetic skyrmions are textures behaving as quasiparticles which are topologically different from other states. Their discovery in systems with broken inversion symmetry sparked the search for materials containing such magnetic phase at…

Three-dimensional (3D) topological spin textures emerge as promising quasi-particles for encoding information in future spintronic devices. The third dimension provides more malleability regarding their magnetic properties as well as more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Matthieu Grelier , Florian Godel , Aymeric Vecchiola , Sophie Collin , Karim Bouzehouane , Albert Fert , Vincent Cros , Nicolas Reyren

Topological spin textures exhibit a hierarchical nature. For instance, magnetic skyrmions, which possess a particle-like nature, can aggregate to form superstructures such as skyrmion strings and skyrmion lattices. Magnetic hopfions are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-04 Shoya Kasai , Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Topological defects play a key role in a variety of physical systems, ranging from high-energy to solid state physics. They yield fascinating emergent phenomena and serve as a bridge between the microspic and macroscopic world. A skyrmion…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-26 S. Tsesses , E. Ostrovsky , K. Cohen , B. Gjonaj , N. Lindner , G. Bartal

We examine lower order perturbations of the harmonic map prob- lem from $\mathbb{R}^2$ to $\mathbb{S}^2$ including chiral interaction in form of a helicity term that prefers modulation, and a potential term that enables decay to a uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Lukas Döring , Christof Melcher

We show that skyrmions arising from compact five dimensional models have stable sizes. We numerically obtain the skyrmion configurations and calculate their size and energy. Although their size strongly depends on the magnitude of localized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Alex Pomarol , Andrea Wulzer

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

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin textures that their thermal stability originates from the nontrivial topology in nature. Recently, a plethora of topological spin textures have been theoretically predicted or experimentally observed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Yu Li , Yuzhe Zang , Runze Chen , Christoforos Moutafis

Magnetic skyrmion is a topologically stable particle-like swirling spin texture potentially suitable for high-density information bit, which was first observed in noncentrosymmetric magnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Recently,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-01 N. D. Khanh , T. Nakajima , S. Hayami , S. Gao , Y. Yamasaki , H. Sagayama , H. Nakao , R. Takagi , Y. Motome , Y. Tokura , T. Arima , S. Seki

We study a possibility of existence of localized two-dimensional structures, both smooth and non-smooth, that can move without significant change of their shape in a leading stream of compressible barotropic fluid on a rotating plane.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-03 Olga Rozanova

The topologically protected configuration embedded in skyrmions has prompted some investigations into their fundamental properties and versatile applications, sparking interest and guiding ongoing development. The topological protection…

Competing magnetic interactions may stabilize smooth magnetization textures that can be characterized by a topological winding number. Such textures, which are spatially localized within a two-dimensional plane, are commonly known as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Alexander P. Petrović , Christina Psaroudaki , Peter Fischer , Markus Garst , Christos Panagopoulos

Topological wave structures -- phase vortices, skyrmions, merons, etc. -- are attracting enormous attention in a variety of quantum and classical wave fields. Surprisingly, these structures have never been properly explored in the most…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-11 Daria A. Smirnova , Franco Nori , Konstantin Y. Bliokh

In magnetism, skyrmions correspond to classical three-dimensional spin textures characterized by a topological invariant that keeps track of the winding of the magnetization in real space, a property that cannot be easily generalized to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-04 O. M. Sotnikov , V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois , F. Mila , M. I. Katsnelson , E. A. Stepanov

In this work we propose a new route to describe topological excitations in magnetic systems through a single real scalar field. We show here that spherically symmetric structures in two spatial dimensions, which map helical excitations in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 D. Bazeia , M. M. Doria , E. I. B. Rodrigues

Observability of half-quantum vortices and skyrmions in p-wave superconductors is an outstanding open question. Under the most common conditions, fractional flux vortices are not thermodynamically stable in bulk samples. Here we show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-20 Julien Garaud , Egor Babaev

One of the most important magnetic spin structure is the topologically stabilised skyrmion quasi-particle. Its interesting physical properties make them candidates for memory and efficient neuromorphic computation schemes. For the device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Isaac Labrie-Boulay , Thomas Brian Winkler , Daniel Franzen , Alena Romanova , Hans Fangohr , Mathias Kläui

Magnetic skyrmions are intriguing topological spin textures that have attracted great attention due to their potential for future spintronic devices. Skyrmions have so far been explored in different magnetic materials, such as ferromagnets,…

Skyrmions are disk-like objects that typically form triangular crystals in two dimensional systems. This situation is analogous to the so-called "pancake vortices" of quasi-two dimensional superconductors. The way in which skyrmion disks or…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-15 Shi-Zeng Lin , Cristian D. Batista