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Using Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, we study the skyrmion stability/instability as a response to uniaxial mechanical stresses. Skyrmions emerge in chiral magnetic materials as a stable spin configuration under external magnetic field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-03 Sahbi El Hog , Fumitake Kato , Satoshi Hongo , Hiroshi Koibuchi , Gildas Diguet , Tetsuya Uchimoto , Hung T. Diep

Skyrmions and antiskyrmions in magnetic ultrathin films are characterised by a topological charge describing how the spins wind around their core. This topology governs their response to forces in the rigid core limit. However, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Ulrike Ritzmann , Stephan von Malottki , Joo-Von Kim , Stefan Heinze , Jairo Sinova , Bertrand Dupé

We find numerically skyrmionic textures with skyrmion number Q=0 in ferromagnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and perpendicular anisotropy. These have the form of a skyrmion-antiskyrmion pair and may be called chiral droplets.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Naveen Sisodia , Pranaba Kishor Muduli , Nikos Papanicolaou , Stavros Komineas

Magnetic skyrmion motion induced by an electric current has drawn much interest because of its application potential in next-generation magnetic memory devices. Recently, unidirectional skyrmion motion driven by an oscillating magnetic…

Skyrmions in an antiferromagnet can travel as solitary waves in stark contrast to the situation in ferromagnets. Traveling skyrmion solutions have been found numerically in chiral antiferromagnets. We study head-on collision events between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 George Theodorou , Bruno Barton-Singer , Stavros Komineas

We compare the driven dynamics of skyrmions, antiskyrmions, and skyrmionium interacting with random disorder, circular defects, and asymmetric potentials. When interacting with a line defect at a constant drive, skyrmions and antiskyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas

Skyrmions as well as skyrmion bags in magnetic thin films are promising candidates for future high-density memory devices. The observation of skyrmion bags in liquid crystals and their predicted existence in ferromagnetic films has sparked…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-28 Naim Ahmad , Chirag Kalouni , Abhay Singh Rajawat , Waseem Akhtar

The understanding of the dynamical properties of skyrmion is a fundamental aspect for the realization of a competitive skyrmion based technology beyond CMOS. Most of the theoretical approaches are based on the approximation of a rigid…

Magnetic bimerons are potential information carriers in spintronic devices. Bimerons, topologically equivalent to skyrmions, manifest in chiral magnetic systems with in-plane magnetization due to anisotropies or external magnetic fields.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Mario Castro , David Gálvez , Sebastián Castillo , Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos , Álvaro S. Núñez , Sebastián Allende

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

We have performed an experimental and modeling-based study of the spin-orbit torque-induced growth of magnetic stripe domains in heavy metal/ferromagnet thin-film heterostructures that possess chiral N\'eel-type domain walls due to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Jeffrey A. Brock , Daan Swinkels , Bert Koopmans , Eric E. Fullerton

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in a metallic chiral magnet. First we show that skyrmions can be created dynamically by destabilizing the ferromagnetic background state through a spin polarized current. We then treat skyrmions as rigid…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-14 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

Magnetic storage based on racetrack memory is very promising for the design of ultra-dense, low-cost and low-power storage technology. Information can be coded in a magnetic region between two domain walls or, as predicted recently, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-31 R. Tomasello , E. Martinez , R. Zivieri , L. Torres , M. Carpentieri , G. Finocchio

Magnetic skyrmions are magnetic quasi-particles with enhanced stability and different manipulation mechanisms using external fields and currents making them promising candidates for future applications for instance in neuromorphic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-30 Thomas Brian Winkler , Jan Rothörl , Maarten A. Brems , Hans Fangohr , Mathias Kläui

We examine the motion of an individual skyrmion driven through an assembly of other skyrmions by a constant or increasing force in the absence of quenched disorder. The skyrmion behavior is determined by the ratio of the damping and Magnus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Diffusion of particles has wide repercussions ranging from particle-based soft matter systems to solid state systems with particular electronic properties. Recently, in the field of magnetism, diffusion of magnetic skyrmions, topologically…

Motivated by the recent observation [Zeissler et al, Nature Comm. 11, 428 (2020)] of enigmatic radius-independent skyrmion Hall angle in chiral magnets, we derive skyrmion Hall angle based on the recent solution of skyrmions characterized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Sandip Bera , Sudhansu S. Mandal

High precision skyrmion pinning by an intentionally created magnetic structure is important in skyrmion manipulation. Here, we consider skyrmion pinning by various types of disks. Among other findings, we clarify that, in terms of pinning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 X. Gong , K. Y. Jing , J. Lu , X. R. Wang

Magnetic skyrmion technology is promising for the next-generation spintronics-based memory and neuromorphic computing due to their small size, non-volatility and low depinning current density. However, the Magnus force originating from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Debasis Das , Yunuo Cen , Jianze Wang , Xuanyao Fong

We demonstrate the emergence of an anomalous Hall effect in chiral magnetic textures which is neither proportional to the net magnetization nor to the well-known emergent magnetic field that is responsible for the topological Hall effect.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Fabian R. Lux , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov