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Magnetic skyrmion is a promising building block for developing information storage and computing devices. It can be stabilized in a ferromagnetic thin film with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). The moving ferromagnetic skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Qiming Shao , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

Using both atomistic and particle-based simulations, we investigate the current-driven dynamics of skyrmions on two-dimensional periodic substrates when there are multiple skyrmions per substrate minimum. At zero drive, the system forms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , N. P. Vizarim , P. A. Venegas

Magnetic skyrmions are highly promising candidates for future spintronic applications such as skyrmion racetrack memories and logic devices. They exhibit exotic and complex dynamics governed by topology and are less influenced by defects,…

We use particle-based simulations to examine the static and driven collective phases of skyrmions interacting with random quenched disorder. We show that non-dissipative effects due to the Magnus term reduce the depinning threshold and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-06 C. Reichhardt , D. Ray , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Magnetic skyrmions are swirling magnetic textures that can be efficiently driven with spin-orbit torques with a deflected trajectory. However, pinning slows skyrmions down and alters their trajectory, which prevents a quantitative…

A strategy to drive skyrmion motion by a combination of an anisotropy gradient and spin Hall effect has recently been demonstrated. Here, we study the fundamental properties of this type of motion by combining micromagnetic simulations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Riccardo Tomasello , Stavros Komineas , Giulio Siracusano , Mario Carpentieri , Giovanni Finocchio

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like objects with topologically-protected stability which can be set into motion with an applied current. Using a particle-based model we simulate current-driven magnetic skyrmions interacting with random…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-09 Sebastian A. Diaz , C. J. O. Reichhardt , Daniel P. Arovas , Avadh Saxena , C. Reichhardt

Current-driven dynamics of spin textures plays a pivotal role in potential applications for electronic devices. While two-dimensional magnetic skyrmions with topologically nontrivial spin textures have garnered significant interest, their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-25 Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Magnetic skyrmions hold great promise for realizing compact and stable memory devices that can be manipulated at very low energy costs via electronic current densities. In this work, we extend a recently introduced method to describe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Emil Östberg , Emil Viñas Boström , Claudio Verdozzi

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic textures that hold great promise as nanoscale bits of information in memory and logic devices. Although room-temperature ferromagnetic skyrmions and their current-induced manipulation have been…

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-sized topologically non-trivial spin textures that can be moved by external stimuli such as spin currents and internal stimuli such as spatial gradients of a material parameter. Since the total energy of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Ismael Ribeiro de Assis , Ingrid Mertig , Börge Göbel

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in chiral magnets in the presence of a spin polarized current. The motion of skyrmions in the ferromagnetic background excites spin waves and contributes to additional damping. At a large current, the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-15 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

Magnetic skyrmions are believed to be the promising candidate of information carriers in spintronics. However, the skyrmion Hall effect due to the nontrivial topology of skyrmions can induce a skyrmion accumulation or even annihilation at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Xiaofan Wang , X. S. Wang , C. Wang , Huanhuan Yang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Magnetic skyrmions, topologically stabilized chiral magnetic textures with particle-like properties have so far primarily been studied statically. Here, we experimentally investigate the dynamics of skyrmion ensembles in metallic thin film…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Klaus Raab , Maurice Schmitt , Maarten A. Brems , Jan Rothörl , Fabian Kammerbauer , Sachin Krishnia , Mathias Kläui , Peter Virnau

Current-induced motion of non-axisymmetric skyrmions within angular phases of polar helimagnetis with the easy plane anisotropy is studied by micromagnetic simulations.Such non-axisymmetric skyrmions consist of a circular core and a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-10 Remi Murooka , Andrey O. Leonov , Katsuya Inoue , Jun-ichiro Ohe

In this work, we study the microscopic dynamics of distorted skyrmions in strained chiral magnets [K. Shibata et al., Nat. Nanotech. 10, 589 (2015)] under gradient magnetic field or electric current by Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert simulations of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 J. Chen , J. J. Liang , J. H. Yu , M. H. Qin , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , S. Dong , J. -M. Liu

We study the stabilization and electrical manipulation of skyrmions in magnetic ultrathin films in the absence of an applied magnetic field. We show that this requires an increased magnetic anisotropy, controlled by the sample thickness, as…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-06 Sougata Mallick , Sujit Panigrahy , Gajanan Pradhan , Stanislas Rohart

We explore magnetic-field-driven chaos in magnetic skyrmions. Oscillating magnetic fields induce nonlinear dynamics in skyrmions, arising from the coupling of the secondary gyrotropic mode with a non-uniform, breathing-like mode. Through…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-11 Gyuyoung Park , Sang-Koog Kim

The dynamics of current-induced motion of a magnetic domain wall in a quasi-one-dimensional ferromagnet with both easy-axis and easy-plane anisotropy, is studied. We pay a special attention to the case of a sharp domain wall, and calculate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. K. Dugaev , V. R. Vieira , P. D. Sacramento , J. Barnas , M. A. N. Araujo , J. Berakdar

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically-distinct swirls of magnetic moments which display particle-like behaviour, including the ability to undergo thermally-driven diffusion. In this paper we study the thermally activated motion of arrays of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Yifan Zhou , Rhodri Mansell , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Sebastiaan van Dijken