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Magnetic skyrmions are quasiparticle configurations in a magnetic film that can act as information carrying bits for ultrasmall, all-electronic nonvolatile memory. The skyrmions can be nucleated and driven by spin-orbit torque from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Hamed Vakili , Yunkun Xie , Avik W. Ghosh

Deformations of skyrmions arising from the presence of more than one magnetic sublattice lead to their massive dynamics in ferrimagnets as compared to the massless dynamics in 2D ferromagnets. This results in the gyroscopic motion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Dmitry A. Garanin , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

We investigate the dynamics of two skyrmions lying in distinct layers of an antiferromagnetic bilayer system, consisting of nanostripes with the shape of racetracks. The top and bottom nanostripes are separated by a height offset and they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 R. C. Silva , R. L. Silva , V. L. Carvalho-Santos , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

Skyrmions in an antiferromagnet can travel as solitary waves in stark contrast to the situation in ferromagnets. Traveling skyrmion solutions have been found numerically in chiral antiferromagnets. We study head-on collision events between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 George Theodorou , Bruno Barton-Singer , Stavros Komineas

Due to their non-trivial topology, skyrmions describe deflected trajectories, which hinders their straight propagation in nanotracks and can lead to their annihilation at the track edges. This deflection is caused by a gyrotropic force…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-06 L. Berges , R. Weil , A. Mougin , J. Sampaio

Skyrmion is a topologically protected spin texture excited in magnetic thin films. The radii of skyrmions are typically 10-100 nm. Because of the size, the skyrmion is expected to be a candidate for memory and novel-device usages. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 E. Tamura , C. Liu , S. Miki , J. Cho , M. Goto , H. Nomura , R. Nakatani , Y. Suzuki

Magnetic skyrmionium is a skyrmion-like spin texture with nanoscale size and high mobility. It is a topologically trivial but dynamically stable structure, which can be used as a non-volatile information carrier for next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Xue Liang , Xichao Zhang , Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Motohiko Ezawa , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

A magnetic skyrmion is a topological magnetization structure with a nanometric size and a well-defined swirling spin distribution, which is anticipated to be an essential building block for novel skyrmion-based device applications. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

We study the emergence and dynamics of in-plane skyrmions in collinear ferromagnetic heterostructures. We present a minimal energy model for this class of magnetic textures, determine the crystal symmetries compatible with it and propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Ricardo Zarzuela , Venkata Krishna Bharadwaj , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Jairo Sinova , Karin Everschor-Sitte

We study the magnetic dynamics of magnetoelectric antiferromagnetic thin films, where an unconventional boundary ferromagnetism coexists with the bulk N\'{e}el phase below the N\'{e}el temperature. The spin exchange between the two order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ricardo Zarzuela , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The dynamics of individual magnetic skyrmions confined in ultrathin film dots is studied theoretically. The systems considered are transition metal ferromagnets possessing perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and particular attention is given…

The skyrmion-substrate interaction is an important issue to consider when studying particle-like skyrmions in nanostructures, which may strongly affect the skyrmion dynamics and lead to complex dynamic phenomena. Here, we report the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Xiaoxi Liu

Calculations of skyrmions in antiferromagnets (AFMs) are presented, and their properties compared with skyrmions in corresponding ferromagnets (FMs). The rates of skyrmion collapse and escape through the boundary of a track, as well as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-24 Maria N. Potkina , Igor S. Lobanov , Hannes Jónsson , Valery M. Uzdin

In skyrmion-based racetrack memories, the information encoded by skyrmions may be destroyed due to the skyrmion Hall effect, which can be surmounted by using synthetic antiferromagnetic racetracks. Hence, the manipulation of skyrmions in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-18 Renan P. Loreto , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Motohiko Ezawa , Xiaoxi Liu , Clodoaldo I. L. de Araújo

The Skyrmion Hall Effect (SkHE) observed in ferromagnetic (FM) and ferrimagnetic (FI) skyrmions traveling due to a spin-polarized current can be a problematic issue when it comes to technological applications. By investigating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 R. C. Silva , R. L. Silva , J. C. Moreira , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

We study speed and skew deflection-angle dependence on skyrmion deformations of a tightly bound two-skyrmion state in a synthetic ferrimagnet. We condsider here, an in-plane uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy-term in order to induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 P. E. Roy , Ruben M. Otxoa , C. Moutafis

Magnetic skyrmions have potential applications in next-generation spintronics devices with ultralow energy consumption. In this work, the current-driven skyrmion motion in a narrow ferromagnetic nanotrack with voltage-controlled magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-24 Junlin Wang , Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , G. P. Zhao , Jing Wu , Yongbing Xu , Zhigang Zou , Yan Zhou

Skyrmion bags as spin textures with arbitrary topological charge are expected to be the carriers in racetrack memory. Here, we theoretically and numerically investigated the dynamics of skyrmion bags in an anisotropy gradient. It is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Zhaozhuo Zeng , Nasir Mehmood , Yunxu Ma , Jianing Wang , Jianbo Wang , Qingfang Liu

Magnetic skyrmionium is a novel magnetization configuration with zero skyrmion number, which is composed by two skyrmions with opposite skyrmion number. Here, we study the dynamics of skyrmionium under an anisotropy gradient. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Chengkun Song , Chendong Jin , Yunxu Ma , Jinshuai Wang , Haiyan Xia , Jianbo Wang , Qingfang Liu

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
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