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The stability of skyrmions in various environments is estimated by analyzing the multidimensional surface describing the energy of the system as a function of the directions of the magnetic moments in the system. The energy is given by a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-23 Valery M. Uzdin , Maria N. Potkina , Igor S. Lobanov , Pavel F. Bessarab , Hannes Jónsson

This works deals with the presence of localized planar structures in magnetic materials that admit integer or half-integer topological charge. We study models in which the internal disposition of magnetization is driven by a single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-16 D. Bazeia , E. I. B. Rodrigues

Magnetic skyrmions are textures behaving as quasiparticles which are topologically different from other states. Their discovery in systems with broken inversion symmetry sparked the search for materials containing such magnetic phase at…

We study the topological entanglement entropy and scalar chirality of a topologically ordered skyrmion formed in a two-dimensional triangular lattice. Scalar chirality remains a smooth function of the magnetic field in both helical and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-08 Vipin Vijayan , L. Chotorlishvili , A. Ernst , S. S. P. Parkin , M. I. Katsnelson , S. K. Mishra

When an electron moves in a smoothly varying non-collinear magnetic structure, its spin-orientation adapts constantly, thereby inducing forces that act on both the magnetic structure and the electron. These forces may be described by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Schulz , R. Ritz , A. Bauer , M. Halder , M. Wagner , C. Franz , C. Pfleiderer , K. Everschor , M. Garst , A. Rosch

Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasi particles of great interest for data storage applications because of their small size, high stability, and ease of manipulation via electric current. Theoretically, however, skyrmions are poorly…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-20 Felix Büttner , Ivan Lemesh , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

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

Topological solitons are crucial to many branches of physics, such as models of fundamental particles in quantum field theory, information carriers in nonlinear optics, and elementary entities in quantum and classical computations. Chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 X. R. Wang , X. C. Hu

We present a microscopic electronic description of how antiskyrmions can be stabilized in a Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupled magnetic metal. Furthermore, we show that the antiskyrmions can be tuned into Bloch skyrmions via a change in sign of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-15 Deepak S. Kathyat , Arnob Mukherjee , Sanjeev Kumar

Magnetic skyrmions are swirling spin textures with topologically protected noncoplanarity. Recently, skyrmions with the topological number of unity have been extensively studied in both experiment and theory. We here show that a skyrmion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-24 Ryo Ozawa , Satoru Hayami , Yukitoshi Motome

The current development to employ magnetic skyrmions in novel spintronic device designs has led to a demand for room temperature-stable skyrmions of ever smaller size. We present extensive studies on skyrmion stability in atomistic magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Markus Hoffmann , Gideon P. Müller , Stefan Blügel

Non-Hermitian quantum systems can exhibit unique observables characterizing topologically protected transport in the presence of decay. The topological protection arises from winding numbers associated with non-decaying dark states, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Mark S. Rudner , Michael Levin , Leonid S. Levitov

Non-volatile memory and computing technology rely on efficient read and write of ultra-tiny information carriers that do not wear out. Magnetic skyrmions are emerging as a potential carrier since they are topologically robust nanoscale spin…

The magnetic skyrmion with the topological number of unity ($Q=1$) is a well-known nanometric swirling spin structure in the nonlinear $\sigma$ model with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Here, we show that magnetic skyrmion with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Motohiko Ezawa

We investigate the topological change of a Belavin-Polyakov skyrmion under the action of a spin-polarized current. The dynamics is described by the Schr\"odinger equation for the electrons carrying the current coupled to the Landau-Lifshitz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Alberto D. Verga

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected whirling spin textures that can be stabilized in magnetic materials in which a chiral interaction is present. Their limited size together with their robustness against the external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Davide Maccariello , William Legrand , Nicolas Reyren , Karin Garcia , Karim Bouzehouane , Sophie Collin , Vincent Cros , Albert Fert

In chiral magnets, localized topological magnetic whirls, magnetic skyrmions, can be moved by spin polarized electric currents. Upon increasing the current strength, with prospects for high-speed skyrmion motion for spintronics applications…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 Jan Masell , Davi R. Rodrigues , Ben F. McKeever , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Breaking the dilemma between small size and room temperature stability is a necessary prerequisite for skyrmion-based information technology. Here we demonstrate by means of rate theory and an atomistic spin Hamiltonian that the stability…

Conditions under which various skyrmion objects emerge in experiments on thin magnetic films remain largely unexplained. We investigate numerically centrosymmetric spin lattices in films of finite thickness with ferromagnetic exchange,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-17 D. A. Garanin , E. M. Chudnovsky

Topological magnetic solitons, such as skyrmions, exhibit intriguing particle-like properties that make them attractive for fundamental research and practical applications. While many magnetic systems can host skyrmions as statically stable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-22 Vladyslav M. Kuchkin , Bruno Barton-Singer , Pavel F. Bessarab , Nikolai S. Kiselev