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Magnetic skyrmions are topologically-protected spin textures with attractive properties suitable for high-density and low-power spintronic device applications. Much effort has been dedicated to understanding the dynamical behaviours of the…

Magnetic skyrmion motion induced by an electric current has drawn much interest because of its application potential in next-generation magnetic memory devices. Recently, unidirectional skyrmion motion driven by an oscillating magnetic…

A key issue for skyrmion dynamics and devices are pinning effects present in real systems. While posing a challenge for the realization of conventional skyrmionics devices, exploiting pinning effects can enable non-conventional computing…

We examine the dynamics, Hall angle, and pinning for N{\'e}el skyrmions in an altermagnet. Using an atomistic model, we show that skyrmion velocity and Hall angle dependence is anisotropic with respect to the direction of the drive, due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. J. O. Reichhardt , A. Saxena , C. Reichhardt

The physical mechanisms underlying current-driven skyrmion motion include the spin-transfer torque exerted by a spin-polarized horizontal electric current and the spin-orbit torque exerted by a perpendicular spin current. Each mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Yuto Uwabo , Ryo Fujimoto , Kimimaro Yanai , Masahito Mochizuki

Understanding the dynamics of current-driven skyrmion is essential for their practical applications. In this study, we apply an AC current pulse (a) in x-- direction, and (b) in both x-- and y-- directions through the free layer of a Co/Pt…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-10 Tamali Mukherjee , V Satya Narayana Murthy

The equilibrium phase space of magnetic textures in thin-films of cubic chiral ferromagnets, including skyrmions, is explored as a function of in-plane magnetic field strength, film thickness and uniaxial anisotropy. The interplay between…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-25 Cameron Rudderham , Martin Plumer , Theodore Monchesky

I present a study of the influence of disorder in thin magnetic films on the switching behavior of small magnetic cells of well defined shape and size. The disorder considered arises from randomly oriented crystalline grains of different…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Braun

Magnetic skyrmions are conventionally attributed to having zero mass. In contrast, we show that skyrmions confined to one-dimensional geometries generically acquire mass (inertia) due to the combined effects of the skyrmion Hall effect and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-27 Koichiro Takahashi , Sergey S. Pershoguba , Jiadong Zang

The static and dynamic properties of skyrmions have recently received increased attention due to the potential application of skyrmions as information carriers and for unconventional computing. While the current-driven dynamics has been…

Understanding the effect of pinning on the vortex dynamics in superconductors is a key factor towards controlling critical current values. Large-scale simulations of vortex dynamics can provide a rational approach to achieve this goal.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-09 I. A. Sadovskyy , Y. L. Wang , Z. -L. Xiao , W. -K. Kwok , A. Glatz

Topological defects in magnetism have attracted great attention due to fundamental research interests and potential novel spintronics applications. Rich examples of topological defects can be found in nanoscale non-uniform spin textures,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-11 Siying Huang , Chao Zhou , Gong Chen , Hongyi Shen , Andreas K. Schmid , Kai Liu , Yizheng Wu

Spin Hall effects are a collection of relativistic spin-orbit coupling phenomena in which electrical currents can generate transverse spin currents and vice versa. Although first observed only a decade ago, these effects are already…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-13 Jairo Sinova , Sergio O. Valenzuela , J. Wunderlich , C. H. Back , T. Jungwirth

The controllable magnetic skyrmion motion represents a highly concerned issue in preparing advanced skyrmion-based spintronic devices. Specifically, magnon-driven skyrmion motion can be easily accessible in both metallic and insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Z. Jin , C. Y. Meng , T. T. Liu , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu

Domain-wall skyrmions (DWSKs) are topological spin textures confined within domain walls that have recently attracted significant attention due to their potential applications in racetrack memory technologies. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Haoyang Nie , Zhixiong Li , Xiansi Wang , Zhenyu Wang

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in a metallic chiral magnet. First we show that skyrmions can be created dynamically by destabilizing the ferromagnetic background state through a spin polarized current. We then treat skyrmions as rigid…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-14 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

A spin-polarized current in a nanocontact to a magnetic film can create collective magnetic oscillations by compensating the magnetic damping. In particular, in materials with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, droplet solitons have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Nahuel Statuto , Joan Manel Hernàndez , Andrew D. Kent , Ferran Macià

Using particle-based simulations, we examine the collective dynamics of skyrmions interacting with periodic pinning arrays, focusing on the impact of the Magnus force on the sliding phases. As a function of increasing pinning strength, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 C. Reichhardt , D. Ray , C. J. O. Reichhardt

In the MnSi bulk chiral magnet, magnetic skyrmion strings of 17 nm in diameter appear in the form of a lattice, penetrating the sample thickness, 10-1,000 um. Although such a bundle of skyrmion strings may exhibit complex soft-matter-like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-10 F. Kagawa , H. Oike , W. Koshibae , A. Kikkawa , Y. Okamura , Y. Taguchi , N. Nagaosa , Y. Tokura

We calculate fluctuation corrections to the longitudinal conductivity of disordered superconductors subject to an external magnetic field. We derive analytic expressions that are valid in the entire metallic part of the temperature-magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Brian Tarasinski , Georg Schwiete