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Magnetic skyrmions have attracted considerable attention recently for their huge potential in spintronic applications. Generally skyrmions are big compared to the atomic lattice constant, which allows for the Ginzburg-Landau type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Shi-Zeng Lin , Satoru Hayami

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…

Magnetic skyrmions, due to their topological stability and high mobility, are strong candidates for information carriers in spintronic devices. To advance their practical applications, a detailed understanding of their nucleation and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Tamali Mukherjee , V Satya Narayana Murthy , Banasree Sadhukhan

When magnetic skyrmions decay, their size in real space decreases in a finite time before they eventually collapse. We construct an effective continuum model and use its dynamics to describe the shrinking behavior of skyrmions before they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Frederik Austrup , Wolfgang Häusler , Michael Lau , Michael Thorwart

Understanding skyrmion-skyrmion interactions is crucial for effectively manipulating the motion of multiple skyrmions in racetrack and logic devices. However, the fundamental nature and microscopic origins of these interactions remain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Xuchong Hu , Huaiyang Yuan , Xiangrong Wang

Implementation of skyrmion based energy efficient and high-density data storage devices requires aggressive scaling of skyrmion size. Ferrimagnetic materials are considered to be a suitable platform for this purpose due to their low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Md Mahadi Rajib , Walid Al Misba , Dhritiman Bhattacharya , Jayasimha Atulasimha

We address a simple model allowing the existence of domain walls with orientational moduli localized on them. Within this model, we discuss an analytic solution and explore it in the context of previously known results. We discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-13 Vladimir Bychkov , Michael Kreshchuk , Evgeniy Kurianovych

We derive an effective Hamiltonian system describing the low energy dynamics of circular magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions. Using scaling and symmetry arguments we model (anti-)skyrmion dynamics through a finite set of coupled,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 B. F. McKeever , D. R. Rodrigues , D. Pinna , Ar. Abanov , Jairo Sinova , K. Everschor-Sitte

We study the 3+1 dimensional Skyrme model with a mass term different from the usual one. We show that this new model possesses domain walls solutions. We describe how, in the equivalent 2+1 dimensional model, the Skyrmion is absorbed by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Piette , W. J. Zakrzewski

This paper explores the energy landscape of ferromagnetic multilayer heterostructures that feature magnetic skyrmions -- tiny whirls of spins with non-trivial topology -- in each magnetic layer. Such magnetic heterostructures have been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-03 N. J. Dubicki , V. V. Slastikov , A. Bernand-Mantel , C. B. Muratov

We study the influence of curvature on the exchange energy of skyrmions and vortices on a paraboloidal surface. It is shown that such structures appear as excitations of the Heisenberg model, presenting topological stability, unlike what…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 P. S. C. Vilas-Boas , R. G. Elias , D. Altbir , J. M. fonseca , V. L. Carvalho-Santos

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

Transition-metal interfaces and multilayers are a very promising class of systems to realize nanometer-sized, stable magnetic skyrmions for future spintronic devices. For room temperature applications it is crucial to understand the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Souvik Paul , Soumyajyoti Haldar , Stephan von Malottki , Stefan Heinze

Chiral magnetic materials provide a number of challenging issues such as the highly efficient domain wall (DW) and skyrmion motions driven by electric current, as of the operation principles of emerging spintronic devices. The DWs in the…

Magnetic skyrmions are fascinating topological particle-like textures promoted by a trade-off among interfacial properties (perpendicular anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI)) and dipolar interactions. Depending on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 R. Tomasello , Z. Wang , E. Raimondo , S. Je , M. Im , M. Carpentieri , W. Jiang , G. Finocchio

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin whirls that may not be transformed continuously into topologically trivial states such as ferromagnetic spin alignment. In recent years lattice structures composed of skyrmions have been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-30 Andreas Bauer , Christian Pfleiderer

Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates as information carriers in logic or storage devices thanks to their robustness, guaranteed by the topological protection, and their nanometric size. Currently, little is known about the influence…

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

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale windings of the spin configuration that hold great promise for technology due to their topology-related properties and extremely reduced sizes. After the recent observation at room temperature of sub-100 nm…

Magnetic skyrmions are prime candidates for future spintronic devices. However, incorporating them as an entity for information technology hinges on their interaction with defects ubiquitous to any device. Here we map from first-principles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Imara Lima Fernandes , Juba Bouaziz , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis