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Liquid crystal skyrmions are topologically protected spatially localized distortions of the director field which are fascinating from both fundamental mathematics and applied physics points of view. Skyrmions are realized in experimental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-26 Tomás Alvim , Margarida M. Telo da Gama , Mykola Tasinkevych

For the baby Skyrme model with a specific potential, compacton solutions, i.e., configurations with a compact support and parabolic approach to the vacuum, are derived. Specifically, in the non-topological sector, we find spinning Q-balls…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 C. Adam , P. Klimas , J. Sanchez-Guillen , A. Wereszczynski

Skyrmions represent topologically stable field configurations with particle-like properties. We used neutron scattering to observe the spontaneous formation of a two-dimensional lattice of skyrmion lines, a type of magnetic vortices, in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Mühlbauer , B. Binz , F. Jonietz , C. Pfleiderer , A. Rosch , A. Neubauer , R. Georgii , P. Böni

Skyrmions dynamics in the approximation of point-particle skyrmions is considered in the multiferroic insulators, where the spiral magnetic structure is accompanied by finite electric dipole moment. The skyrmion motion is studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Pavel A. Andreev , Mariya Iv. Trukhanova

Using both atomistic and particle-based simulations, we investigate the current-driven dynamics of skyrmions on two-dimensional periodic substrates when there are multiple skyrmions per substrate minimum. At zero drive, the system forms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , N. P. Vizarim , P. A. Venegas

Topological phases such as polar skyrmions have been a fertile playground for ferroelectric oxide superlattices, with exotic physical phenomena such as negative capacitance. Herein, using phase-field simulations, we demonstrate the local…

Non-Hermitian systems have been discussed mostly in the context of open systems and nonequilibrium. Recent experimental progress is much from optical, cold-atomic, and classical platforms due to the vast tunability and clear identification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

Novel types of barrel-shaped chiral skyrmions can exist as isolated topological defects or as bound states in magnetic nanolayers with intrinsic and surface/interface induced chirality. The equilibrium parameters of chiral modulations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 A. O. Leonov

The advent of Moir\'e materials has galvanized interest in the nature of charge carriers in topological bands. In contrast to conventional materials where charge carriers are electron-like quasiparticles, topological bands allow for more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath

We construct discrete analogs of Skyrmions in nonlinear dynamical lattices. The Skyrmion is built as a vortex soliton of a complex field, coupled to a dark radial soliton of a real field. Adjusting the Skyrmion ansatz to the lattice setting…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-05-11 P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , D. J. Frantzeskakis , B. A. Malomed , F. K. Diakonos

Polar skyrmions are predicted to emerge from the interplay of elastic, electrostatic and gradient energies, in contrast to the key role of the anti-symmetric Dzyalozhinskii-Moriya interaction in magnetic skyrmions. With the discovery of…

Particle-like topological structures such as skyrmions and vortices have garnered ever-increasing interests due to the rich physical insights and potential broad applications. Here we discover the reversible switching between polar skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Zijian Hong , Long-Qing Chen

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically nontrivial spin configurations that possess particle-like properties. Earlier research was mainly focused on a specific type of skyrmion with topological charge Q = -1. However, theoretical analyses of…

Self-organisation into spatially modulated structures has different nature from phase transition into uniform states. Skyrmions and half-skyrmions (merons) are representatives of such structures and are utilised in designing…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-18 Kyohei Takae , Takeshi Kawasaki

In this letter we study soliton crystals in the $(2+1)$-dimensional analogue model of the $(3+1)$-dimensional Adkins--Nappi model of nuclear physics. The baby $\omega$-Skyrme model studied here is an $O(3)$ nonlinear $\sigma$ model coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-12 Paul Leask

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya materials with easy-axis anisotropy. An important link between topology and dynamics is established through the construction of unambiguous conservation laws obtained earlier in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

Chiral magnets are an emerging class of topological matter harbouring localized and topologically protected vortex-like magnetic textures called skyrmions, which are currently under intense scrutiny as a new entity for information storage…

The world is full of fluids that flow. The fluid nature of flowing skyrmionic quasiparticles is of fundamental physical interest and plays an essential role in the transport of many skyrmions. Here, we report the laminar and transiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Motohiko Ezawa , Guoping Zhao , Yan Zhou , Xiaoxi Liu , Masahito Mochizuki

This is one of the `New Talents' seminars at `Erice International School of Subnuclear Physics 1999' and looks at numerical studies of (2+1)D topological Skyrme-like solitons; the baby skyrmions. We explain the concept of integrable and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Weidig

Magnetic skyrmions are stable topological solitons with complex non-coplanar spin structures. Their nanoscopic size and the low electric currents required to initiate and control their motion has opened a new field of research, skyrmionics,…