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Skyrmions are topological magnetic textures, mostly treated classically, studied extensively due to their potential spintronics applications due to their topological stability. However, it remains unclear what physical phenomena…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-16 Dhiman Bhowmick , Andreas Haller , Deepak S. Kathyat , Thomas L. Schmidt , Pinaki Sengupta

We have developed a sensitive technique to probe the magnetic skyrmion phases and dynamics by employing the interfacial coupling effect in a magnetoelectric composite configuration. The study on a MnSi single crystal sample using this…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-29 Yisheng Chai , Peipei Lu , Haifeng Du , Jianxin Shen , Yinina Ma , Kun Zhai , Le Wang , Youguo Shi , Hang Li , Wenhong Wang , Young Sun

This paper explores the energy landscape of ferromagnetic multilayer heterostructures that feature magnetic skyrmions -- tiny whirls of spins with non-trivial topology -- in each magnetic layer. Such magnetic heterostructures have been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-03 N. J. Dubicki , V. V. Slastikov , A. Bernand-Mantel , C. B. Muratov

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction has been considered essential for skyrmion formation, however, the discovery of skyrmion lattices (SkLs) in nominally centrosymmetric materials where the DM interaction is forbidden, such as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-15 Y. Arai , K. Nakayama , A. Honma , S. Souma , D. Shiga , H. Kumigashira , T. Takahashi , K. Segawa , T. Sato

We investigate a mechanical method to manipulate magnetic Bloch Skyrmions by applying an electric field in a composite chiral-magnetic (CM)/ferroelectric (FE) bilayer. The magnetoelectric coupling at the interface allows the electric field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Zidong Wang , Malcolm Grimson

Electron spin-momentum locking together with background magnetic textures can significantly alter the electron transport properties. We theoretically investigate the electron transport at the interface between a topological insulator and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 Yasufumi Araki , Kentaro Nomura

The impact of magnetic anisotropy on the skyrmion lattice (SkL) state in cubic chiral magnets has been overlooked for long, partly because a semi-quantitative description of the thermodynamically stable SkL phase pocket forming near the…

This study establishes a comprehensive framework for the three-dimensional strain control of magnetic skyrmion strings. We integrate analytical modeling, micromagnetic simulations, and \textit{in situ} Lorentz transmission electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Haijun Zhao , Tae-Hoon Kim , Lin Zhou , Liqin Ke

Motivated by recent experiments in Gd$_3$Ru$_4$Al$_{12}$, we demonstrate the emergence of atomic scale Skyrmions in interacting spins on a breathing kagome lattice with competing nearest neighbor ferromagnetic and next nearest neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-08 Nyayabanta Swain , Munir Shahzad , Pinaki Sengupta

The impact of a weak electric field on the weak-localization corrections is studied within the framework of a nonlinear sigma-model. Two scaling regimes are obtained. In one, the scaling is dominated by temperature; in the other, by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Bleibaum , D. Belitz

The effect of electric field, applied on systems in the nanoscale regime has attracted a lot of research in recent times. We highlight some of the recent results in the field of single molecule electronics and then move on to focus on some…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-11 S. Lakshmi , Sudipta Dutta , Swapan K. Pati

The Magnetoelectric (ME) effect in solids is a prominent cross correlation phenomenon, in which the electric field (${\bm E}$) controls the magnetization (${\bm M}$) and the magnetic field (${\bm H}$) controls the electric polarization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-30 Makoto Naka , Sumio Ishihara

We study the effects of an in-plane Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction under an external magnetic field in the highly frustrated kagome antiferromagnet. We focus on the low-temperature phase diagram, which we obtain through extensive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-11 M. E. Villalba , F. A. Gómez Albarracín , H. D. Rosales , D. C. Cabra

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures in ferromagnetic materials that hold great promise for both classical information storage and processing, as well as for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Realizing practical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 N. I. Simchuck , I. S. Burmistrov , S. S. Apostoloff

Due to their topological protection and nanometric size, magnetic skyrmions are anticipated to form components of new high-density memory technologies. In metallic systems skyrmion manipulation is achieved easily under a low density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-25 J. S. White , I. Živković , A. J. Kruchkov , M. Bartkowiak , A. Magrez , H. M. Rønnow

Anisotropic skyrmion Hall effect (A-SkHE) in two-dimensional (2D) magnetic systems represents a captivating phenomenon in condensed-matter physics and materials science. While conventional antiferromagnetic systems inherently suppress this…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-13 Kaiying Dou , Zhonglin He , Wenhui Du , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

We develop a coarse-grained theoretical description of the macroscopic emergent electric field generated by phonon-coupled lattice deformations in the breathing and rotational dynamics of a skyrmion lattice under microwave excitation. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-01 Seno Aji

The interaction between the electric field, E, and spins in multi-orbital Mott insulators is studied theoretically. We find a generic dynamical coupling mechanism, which works for all crystal lattices and which does not involve relativistic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Maxim Mostovoy , Kentaro Nomura , Naoto Nagaosa

Magnetic phase transitions are a test bed for exploring the physics of non-equilibrium phenomena in condensed matter, which become even more complex when topological constraints are involved. In particular, the investigation of skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Leonardo Pierobon , Christoforos Moutafis , Yu Li , Jörg F. Löffler , Michalis Charilaou

The recent discovery of magnetic skyrmion lattices initiated a surge of interest in the scientific community. Several novel phenomena have been shown to emerge from the interaction of conducting electrons with the skyrmion lattice, such as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-18 I. Levatić , P. Popčević , V. Šurija , A. Kruchkov , H. Berger , A. Magrez , J. S. White , H. M. Rønnow , I. Živković