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The creation and manipulation of magnetic skyrmions in magnetic bilayer heterostructures via spin-orbit torque have been intensively studied in spintronics because of their potential application as information carriers in next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Yuto Uwabo , Masahito Mochizuki

We investigate the torque field and skyrmion movement at an interface between a ferromagnet hosting a skyrmion and a material with strong spin-orbit interaction. We analyze both semiconductor materials and topological insulators using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-08 Javier Osca , Bart Sorée

Non-collinear magnets exhibit a rich array of dynamic properties at microwave frequencies. They can host nanometre-scale topological textures known as skyrmions, whose spin resonances are expected to be highly sensitive to their local…

We investigate skyrmion configuration and dynamics in antiferromagnetic thin disks. It is shown that the skyrmion acquires oscillatory dynamics with well-defined amplitude and frequency which may be controlled on demand by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 R. L. Silva , R. C. Silva , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

Magnetic skyrmions are vortex-like, swirls of magnetisation whose topological protection and particle-like nature have suggested them to be suitable for a number of novel spintronic devices. One such application is skyrmionic computing,…

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like topological spin configurations, which can carry binary information and thus are promising building blocks for future spintronic devices. In this work, we investigate the relationship between the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Xue Liang , Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Motohiko Ezawa , Yuelei Zhao , Guoping Zhao , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions, topologically stabilized chiral magnetic textures with particle-like properties have so far primarily been studied statically. Here, we experimentally investigate the dynamics of skyrmion ensembles in metallic thin film…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Klaus Raab , Maurice Schmitt , Maarten A. Brems , Jan Rothörl , Fabian Kammerbauer , Sachin Krishnia , Mathias Kläui , Peter Virnau

Ever increasing demand of skyrmion manipulation in nanodevices has brought up interesting research to 8 understand the stabilization of these topologically protected chiral structures. To understand the actual shape 9 and size of skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 Gajanan Pradhan , Subhankar Bedanta

The discovery of magnetic skyrmion bubbles in centrosymmetric magnets has been receiving increasing interest from the research community, due to the fascinating physics of topological spin textures and its possible applications to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Zhipeng Hou , Qiang Zhang , Guizhou Xu , Senfu Zhang , Chen Gong , Bei Ding , Hang Li , Feng Xu , Yuan Yao , Enke Liu , Guangheng Wu , Xi-xiang Zhang , Wenhong Wang

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-sized topologically non-trivial spin textures that can be moved by external stimuli such as spin currents and internal stimuli such as spatial gradients of a material parameter. Since the total energy of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Ismael Ribeiro de Assis , Ingrid Mertig , Börge Göbel

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…

Skyrmions, topologically protected vortex-like nanometric spin textures in magnets, have been attracting increasing attention for emergent electromagnetic responses and possible technological applications for spintronics. In particular,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Y. Tokunaga , X. Z. Yu , J. S. White , H. M. Rønnow , D. Morikawa , Y. Taguchi , Y. Tokura

We consider the interplay between magnetic skyrmions in an insulating thin film and the Dirac surface states of a 3D topological insulator (TI), coupled by proximity effect. The magnetic texture of skyrmions can lead to confinement of Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-28 Hilary M. Hurst , Dmitry K. Efimkin , Jiadong Zang , Victor Galitski

Magnetic skyrmion is a promising building block for developing information storage and computing devices. It can be stabilized in a ferromagnetic thin film with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). The moving ferromagnetic skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Qiming Shao , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

Chirality plays a major role in nature, from particle physics to DNA, and its control is much sought-after due to the scientific and technological opportunities it unlocks. For magnetic materials, chiral interactions between spins promote…

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

We study the dynamics of skyrmions under spin-transfer torque in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya materials with easy-axis anisotropy. In particular, we study the motion of a topological skyrmion with skyrmion number $Q=1$ and a non-topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

We present a simple and fast method to simulate spin-torque driven magnetisation dynamics in nano-pillar spin-valve structures. The approach is based on the coupling between a spin transport code based on random matrix theory and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Simone Borlenghi , M. R. Mahani , Hans Fangohr , Matteo Franchin , Anna Delin , Jonas Fransson

Emergent phenomena and functions arising from topological electron-spin textures in real space or momentum space are attracting growing interest for new concept of states of matter as well as for possible applications to spintronics. One…

Research on magnetic systems with broken inversion symmetry has been stimulated by the experimental proof of particle-like configurations known as skyrmions, whose non-trivial topological properties make them ideal candidates for spintronic…