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We present a comprehensive micromagnetic model of isolated axisymmetric skyrmions in magnetic multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy. Most notably, the essential role of the internal dipolar field is extensively considered with a minimum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 William Legrand , Nathan Ronceray , Nicolas Reyren , Davide Maccariello , Vincent Cros , Albert Fert

In the mirror world hypothesis the mirror baryonic component emerges as a possible dark matter candidate. An immediate question arises: how the mirror baryons behave and what are the differences from the more familiar dark matter candidates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Zurab Berezhiani , Paolo Ciarcelluti , Denis Comelli , Francesco L. Villante

Recently, there has been substantial interest in realizations of skyrmions, in particular in 2D systems due to increased stability resulting from reduced dimensionality. A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Utkan Güngördü , Rabindra Nepal , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Kirill Belashchenko , Alexey A. Kovalev

Structural symmetry breaking in magnetic materials is responsible for a variety of outstanding physical phenomena. Examples range from the existence of multiferroics, to current induced spin orbit torques (SOT) and the formation of…

Domain wall bimerons (DWBMs) are nanoscale spin textures residing within the magnetic domain walls of in-plane magnets. In this study, we employ both numerical and analytical methods to explore the stabilization of N\'eel-type domain wall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Jiwen Chen , Laichuan Shen , Hongyu An , Xichao Zhang , Hua Zhang , Haifeng Du , Xiaoguang Li , Yan Zhou

We study the quantum propagation of a Skyrmion in chiral magnetic insulators by generalizing the micromagnetic equations of motion to a finite-temperature path integral formalism, using field theoretic tools. Promoting the center of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 Christina Psaroudaki , Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Magnetic skyrmion, a swirling spin texture, in chiral magnets is characterized by (i) nano-scale size ($\sim$1nm -- 100nm), (ii) topological stability, and (iii) gyro-dynamics. These features are shown to be advantageous for (a)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 W. Koshibae , Y. Kaneko , J. Iwasaki , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura , N. Nagaosa

We construct domain-wall skyrmion chains and domain-wall bimerons in chiral magnets with an out-of-plane easy-axis anisotropy and without a Zeeman term coupling to a magnetic field. Domain-wall skyrmions are skyrmions trapped inside a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Yuki Amari , Calum Ross , Muneto Nitta

Traditionally, skyrmions are treated as continuum magnetic textures of classical spins with a well-defined topological skyrmion number. Owing to their topological protection, skyrmions have attracted great interest as building blocks in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-24 Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø

Recent experimental studies of magnetic domain expansion under easy-axis drive fields in materials with a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy have shown that the domain wall velocity is asymmetric as a function of an external in plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Dion M. F. Hartmann , Rembert A. Duine , Mariëlle J. Meijer , Henk J. M. Swagten , Reinoud Lavrijsen

We study theoretically, via Monte Carlo simulations on lattices containing up to 1000 x 1000 spins, thermal creation of skyrmion lattices in a 2D ferromagnetic film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-17 Dmitry A. Garanin , Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Senfu Zhang , Xixiang Zhang

Topological protection of chiral magnetic structures is investigated by taking a two-dimensional magnetic skyrmion as an example. The skyrmion lifetime is calculated based on harmonic transition state theory for a discrete lattice model…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-26 M. N. Potkina , I. S. Lobanov , H. Jónsson , V. M. Uzdin

Contraction and expansion of skyrmions in ferromagnetic films are investigated. In centrosymmetric systems, the dynamics of a collapsing skyrmion is driven by dissipation. The collapse time has a minimum on the damping constant. In systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Eugene M. Chudnovsky

We demonstrate numerically on large spin lattices that one can write skyrmions in a thin magnetic film with a magnetic dipole of a few tens of nanometer in size. Nucleation of non-chiral skyrmions as well as chiral skyrmions formed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Dmitry A. Garanin , Daniel Capic , Senfu Zhang , Xixiang Zhang , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Recently, magnetic skyrmion has emerged as an active topic of fundamental study and applications in magnetic materials research. Magnetic skyrmions are vortex-like spin excitations with topological protection and therefore are more robust…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-23 S. Joseph Poon , Chung Ting Ma

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like topological excitations that recently generated much interest as candidates for future spintronic devices based on skyrmion small size, enhanced topological stability, and/or mutual interaction. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Thomas T. J. Mutter , Andrey O. Leonov , Katsuya Inoue

Skyrmions refer to small swirling spin structures that emerge in ferromagnetic materials and show promising features to be used as a `bit' of information in future spintronic devices. Our research explores the possibility of nucleating…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Tamali Mukherjee , Banasree Sadhukhan , V Satya Narayana Murthy

The stability of two-dimensional chiral skyrmions in a tilted magnetic field is studied. It is shown that by changing the direction of the field and its magnitude, one can continuously transform chiral skyrmion into a skyrmion with opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Vladyslav M. Kuchkin , Nikolai S. Kiselev

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetization textures that are characterized by the homotopy group of two dimensional spheres. Despite years of intensive research on skyrmions, the fundamental problem of the inertia of a skyrmion in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 D. Wang , Hans-Benjamin Braun , Yan Zhou

It is well established that the spin-orbit interaction in heavy metal/ferromagnet heterostructures leads to a significant interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) that modifies the internal structure of magnetic domain walls…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Ran Cheng , Maxwell Li , Arjun Sapkota , Anish Rai , Ashok Pokhrel , Tim Mewes , Claudia Mewes , Di Xiao , Marc De Graef , Vincent Sokalski