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Magnetic skyrmions are nano-scale magnetic whirls that can be driven by currents via spin torques. They are promising candidates for spintronic devices such as the racetrack memory, where a motion along the uniform current is typically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ismael Ribeiro de Assis , Ingrid Mertig , Börge Göbel

Skyrmions are vortex-like textures of magnetic moments found in some magnetically ordered materials. Here we describe the origin of the skyrmion and discuss the experimental realization of skyrmions in magnetic materials, the dynamic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-23 Tom Lancaster

Magnetic skyrmions can be considered as topologically protected localized vortex-like spin textures. Due to their stability, their small size, and the possibility to move them by low electric currents they are promising candidates for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Martin Stier , Wolfgang Häusler , Thore Posske , Gregor Gurski , Michael Thorwart

Skyrmions are nanometric spin whirls that can be stabilized in magnets lacking inversion symmetry. The properties of isolated skyrmions embedded in a ferromagnetic background have been intensively studied. We show that single skyrmions and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-02 Jan Müller , Jayaraman Rajeswari , Ping Huang , Yoshie Murooka , Henrik M. Rønnow , Fabrizio Carbone , Achim Rosch

We theoretically propose that magnetic skyrmion, nanometric spin vortex characterized by a quantized topological number, can be electrically created on a thin-film specimen of chiral-lattice magnetic insulator within a few nanoseconds by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-24 Masahito Mochizuki

Antiferromagnets are promising materials for future spintronic applications due to their unique properties including zero stray fields, robustness versus external magnetic fields and ultrafast dynamics, which have attracted extensive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Xue Liang , Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Xiaoxi Liu , Lei Qiu , Guoping Zhao , Yan Zhou

Neuromorphic computing uses brain-inspired principles to design circuits that can perform computational tasks with superior power efficiency to conventional computers. Approaches that use traditional electronic devices to create artificial…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 J. Grollier , D. Querlioz , K. Y. Camsari , K. Everschor-Sitte , S. Fukami , M. D. Stiles

Skyrmions and skyrmion crystal (SkX) discovered in chiral magnets show unique physical properties due to their nontrivial topology such as the stability against the annihilation and the motion driven by the ultralow current density, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Shintaro Hoshino , Naoto Nagaosa

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected stable magnetization configurations, which are expected to be a promising candidate as information carrier, while defect is inevitable and plays an important role on the stabilization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-11 Chengkun Song , Chendong Jin , Haiyan Xia , Yunxu Ma , Jianing Wang , Jianbo Wang , Qingfang Liu

Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates as information carriers in spintronic devices. The transport of individual skyrmions in a fast and controlled way is a key issue in this field. Here we introduce a novel platform for accelerating,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Josep Castell-Queralt , Leonardo G. González-Gómez , Nuria Del-Valle , Alvaro Sanchez , Carles Navau

Current-driven magnetic skyrmions show promise as carriers of information bits in racetrack magnetic memory applications. Specifically, the utilization of skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) systems is highly attractive due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Dimitris Kechrakos , Mario Carpentieri , Anna Giordano , Riccardo Tomasello , Giovanni Finocchio

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin textures touted as next-generation computing elements. When subjected to lateral currents, skyrmions move at considerable speeds. Their topological charge results in an additional transverse deflection…

Skyrmions are vortex-like localized magnetic structures that possess an integer-valued topological index known as the skyrmion number or topological charge. Skyrmion number determines the topology-related emergent magnetism, which is highly…

The development of energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware using spintronic devices based on antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmion motion on nanotracks has gained considerable interest. Owing to its properties such as robustness against external…

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures that hold great promise as nanoscale information carriers. Since their first observation at room temperature, progress has been made in their current-induced manipulation, with fast motion…

An annular magnetic memory that uses a spin-polarized current to switch the magnetization direction or helicity of a magnetic region is proposed. The device has magnetic materials in the shape of a ring (1 to 5 nm in thickness, 20 to 250 nm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrew D. Kent , Daniel L. Stein

Magnetic skyrmions are localized nanometric spin textures with quantized winding numbers as the topological invariant. Rapidly increasing attention has been paid to the investigations of skyrmions since their experimental discovery in 2009,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-31 Ping Huang , Marco Cantoni , Alex Kruchkov , Rajeswari Jayaraman , Arnaud Magrez , Fabrizio Carbone , Henrik M. Ronnow

Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions have interesting static and transport properties that make them candidates for future spintronic devices. Control and manipulation of the size and behavior of skyrmions is thus of crucial importance. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Steven S. -L. Zhang , C. Phatak , A. K. Petford-Long , O. G. Heinonen

Nanoscale chiral skyrmions in noncentrosymmetric helimagnets are promising binary state variables in high-density, low-energy nonvolatile memory. Skyrmions are ubiquitous as an ordered, single-domain lattice phase, which makes it difficult…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 S. L. Zhang , A. Bauer , H. Berger , C. Pfleiderer , G. van der Laan , T. Hesjedal

Magnetic skyrmions are nanometric spin textures of outstanding potential for spintronic applications due to unique features governed by their non-trivial topology. It is well known that skyrmions of definite chirality are stabilized by the…