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Spintronic devices have recently attracted a lot of attention in the field of unconventional computing due to their non-volatility for short and long term memory, non-linear fast response and relatively small footprint. Here we report how…

Domain wall skyrmions are skyrmions trapped inside a domain wall. We investigate domain wall skyrmions in chiral magnets using a fully analytic approach. Treating the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction perturbatively, we construct the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Calum Ross , Muneto Nitta

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures in ferromagnetic materials that hold great promise for both classical information storage and processing, as well as for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Realizing practical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 N. I. Simchuck , I. S. Burmistrov , S. S. Apostoloff

We demonstrate the stray-field-mediated skyrmion stabilizing capabilities of ultrathin exchange-decoupled antisymmetric ferromagnetic bilayers based on conventional transition metal materials. Using an asymptotically exact micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Anne Bernand-Mantel , Valeriy V. Slastikov , Cyrill B. Muratov

We theoretically study a stabilization mechanism of the skyrmion crystal in centrosymmetric magnets with a bilayer structure. We show that the interplay between a layer-dependent staggered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction that arises from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-10 Satoru Hayami

When two magnetic skyrmions - whirl-like, topologically protected quasiparticles - form a bound pair, a biskyrmion state with a topological charge of $N_\mathrm{Sk}=\pm 2$ is constituted. Recently, especially the case of two partially…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-03 Börge Göbel , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

In the present work, using micromagnetic simulation, we show that the magnetic coupling effect plays a very important role in the process of creation of skyrmions in a coupled system of spin-torque nano-oscillators (STNO). First, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 H. Vigo-Cotrina , A. P. Guimarães

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 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

Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates as elementary nanoscale bits in logic-in-memory devices, intrinsically merging high density memory and computing capabilities. Here we exploit the dynamics of skyrmions interacting with anisotropy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Naveen Sisodia , Johan Pelloux-Prayer , Liliana D. Buda-Prejbeanu , Lorena Anghel , Gilles Gaudin , Olivier Boulle

We study the modification of micromagnetic configurations in nanostructures, due to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) that appear at the interface of an ultrathin film. We show that this interaction leads to new micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Rohart , A. Thiaville

To realize future spintronic applications with magnetic skyrmions -- topologically nontrivial swirling spin structures -- it is essential to achieve efficient writing and deleting capabilities of these quasi-particles. Electric-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-29 Souvik Paul , Stefan Heinze

Magnetic skyrmions are of considerable interest for low-power memory and logic devices because of high speed at low current and high stability due to topological protection. We propose a skyrmion field-effect transistor based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Ik-Sun Hong , Kyung-Jin Lee

From a theoretical perspective, we demonstrate that nanometric magnetic skyrmions are created by application of a circularly polarized microwave magnetic field to a thin-plate Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya ferromagnet with fabricated rectangular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Masayuki Miyake , Masahito Mochizuki

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

Magnetic skyrmions hold promise for spintronic devices. To explore the dynamical properties of skyrmions in devices, a nanoscale method to image spin textures in response to a stimulus is essential. Here, we apply a technique for operando…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Albert M. Park , Zhen Chen , Xiyue S. Zhang , Lijun Zhu , David A. Muller , Gregory D. Fuchs

We present an analytical theory to describe three-dimensional magnetic textures in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic multilayers that arise in the presence of magnetostatic interactions and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-06 Ivan Lemesh , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

Magnetic solitons have recently attracted significant attention due to their intricate physical properties and potential applications in information processing. The majority of the studies in this field, however, are focused on a particular…

The realization of magnetic skyrmions in nanostructures holds great promise for both fundamental research and device applications. Despite recent progress, intrinsic magnetic skyrmions in two-dimensional lattice are still rarely explored.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-11 Wenhui Du , Kaiying Dou , Zhonglin He , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

A major challenge for magnetic skyrmions in atomically thin van der Waals (vdW) materials is reliable skyrmion detection. Here, based on rigorous first-principles calculations, we show that all-electrical skyrmion detection is feasible in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-15 Dongzhe Li , Soumyajyoti Haldar , Stefan Heinze