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Skyrmions and domain walls are typical spin textures of significant technological relevance to magnetic memory and logic applications, where they are used as carriers of information. The unique topology of skyrmions makes them to display…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Xiangjun Xing , Philip W. T. Pong , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions are nanometric spin textures characterized by a quantized topological invariant in magnets and often emerge in a crystallized form called skyrmion crystal in an external magnetic field. We propose that magnets hosting a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Mu-Kun Lee , Masahito Mochizuki

Nanomagnetic logic, in which the outcome of a computation is embedded into the energy hierarchy of magnetostatically coupled nanomagnets, offers an attractive pathway to implement in-memory computation. This computational paradigm avoids…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Pieter Gypens , Naëmi Leo , Matteo Menniti , Paolo Vavassori , Jonathan Leliaert

Logic gates based on magnetic elements are promising candidates for the logic-in-memory applications with nonvolatile data retention, near-zero leakage and scalability. In such spin-based logic device, however, the multi-strip structure and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-24 Dongxing Yu , Hongxin Yang , Mairbek Chshiev , Albert Fert

Nanomechanical systems have been proposed as an alternative computing platform for high radiation environments, where semiconductor electronics traditionally fail, as well as to allow improved gate densities and energy consumption. While…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 T. Jin , C. G. Baker , E. Romero , N. P. Mauranyapin , T. M. F. Hirsch , W. P. Bowen , G. I. Harris

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-scale spin textures whose stability, size and ease of manipulation make them strong contenders for next generation data and logic applications. Here we illustrate fine motion control of skyrmions, we show how…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Charles Kind

Skyrmions with topologically stable configurations have shown a promising route toward magnetic and photonic materials for information processing due to their defect-immune and low-driven energy. However, the practical application of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Liyun Cao , Sheng Wan , Yi Zeng , Yifan Zhu , Badreddine Assouar

Magnetic skyrmions (MS) are particle-like spin structures with whirling configuration, which are promising candidates for spin-based memory. MS contains alluring features including remarkably high stability, ultra low driving current…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-05-04 Mei-Chin Chen , Kaushik Roy

A new proposal is given for designing a non-volatile, completely spin logic device, that can be reprogrammed for different functional classical logical operations. We use the concept of bias driven spin dependent circular current and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Moumita Patra , Alok Shukla , Santanu K Maiti

A long-standing goal of computer technology is to process and store digital information with the same device in order to implement new architectures. One way to accomplish this is to use nanomagnetic `non-volatile' logic gates that can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Ayan K. Biswas , Jayasimha Atulasimha , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

This work proposes a novel logic device (SkyLogic) based on skyrmions, which are magnetic vortex-like structures that have low depinning current density and are robust to defects. A charge current sent through a polarizer ferromagnet (P-FM)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Meghna G. Mankalale , Zhengyang Zhao , Jian-Ping Wang , Sachin S. Sapatnekar

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable whirlpool-like spin textures that offer great promise as information carriers for future ultra-dense memory and logic devices1-4. To enable such applications, particular attention has been focused…

As nanoelectronics approaches the nanometer scale, a massive effort is underway to identify the next scalable logic technology beyond Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) computing. Such computing technology needs to improve…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Sasikanth Manipatruni , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Ramamoorthy Ramesh , Huichu Li , Ian A. Young

The topologically protected magnetic spin configurations known as skyrmions offer promising applications due to their stability, mobility and localization. In this work, we emphasize how to leverage the thermally driven dynamics of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Daniele Pinna , Flavio Abreu Araujo , Joo-Von Kim , Vincent Cros , Damien Querlioz , Perre Bessiere , Jacques Droulez , Julie Grollier

Unlocking the spin degree of freedom in addition to the electron's charge, spin-based logic offers an in-memory computing architecture beyond-CMOS technology. Here, we encode information into chiral spin textures (e.g., chiral domain-wall…

Digital computing currently uses irreversible logic gates whose energy dissipation is fundamentally limited. Reversible logic gates can provide an energy-efficient alternative since they can operate with reversible processes that have no…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-05 Waltraut Wustmann , Kevin D. Osborn

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like textures in the magnetization, characterized by a topological winding number. Nanometer-scale skyrmions have been observed at room temperature in magnetic multilayer structures. The combination of small…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-14 Jan Müller

Skyrmions are nano-sized magnetic whirls attractive for spintronic applications due to their innate stability. They can emulate the characteristic behavior of various spintronic and electronic devices such as spin-torque nano-oscillators,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ismael Ribeiro de Assis , Ingrid Mertig , Börge Göbel

Magnetic domain-wall (DW) has been widely investigated for future memory and computing systems. However, energy efficiency and stability become two major challenges of DW-based systems. In this letter, we first propose exploiting skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Wang Kang , Yangqi Huang , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Weifeng Lv , Weisheng Zhao

Skyrmions in frustrated magnets have the helicity degree of freedom, where two different configurations of Bloch-type skyrmions are energetically favored by the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction and characterized by opposite helicities. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou , Motohiko Ezawa