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Selective control of individual spin qubits is needed for scalable quantum computing based on spin states. Achieving high-fidelity in both single and two-qubit gates, essential components of universal quantum computers, necessitates highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Md Fahim F Chowdhury , Mohamad Niknam , Md Mahadi Rajib , Louis S. Bouchard , Jayasimha Atulasimha

Magnetic skyrmions have been the focus of intense research with promising applications in memory, logic and interconnect technology. Several schemes have been recently proposed and demonstrated to nucleate skyrmions. However, they either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Sourav Dutta , Dmitri E. Nikonov , George Bourianoff , Sasikanth Manipatruni , Ian A. Young , Azad Naeemi

N\'eel-type magnetic skyrmions in multilayer films have attracted significant amount of attention recently for their stability at room temperature and capability of motion driven by a low-density electrical current, which can be potentially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Senfu Zhang , Junwei Zhang , Yan Wen , Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Xixiang Zhang

Skyrmion-containing devices have been proposed as a promising solution for low energy data storage. These devices include racetrack or logic structures and require skyrmions to be confined in regions with dimensions comparable to the size…

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

Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions are considered as potential information carriers for future spintronics memory and logic devices. Such applications will require the control of their local creation and annihilation, which involves so far…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-07 M. Schott , A. Bernand-Mantel , L. Ranno , S. Pizzini , J. Vogel , H. Béa , C. Baraduc , S. Auffret , G. Gaudin , D. Givord

In ferromagnetic multilayers, a single laser pulse with a fluence above an optical nucleation threshold can create magnetic skyrmions, which are randomly distributed over the area of the laser spot. However, in order to study the dynamics…

Based on analytical estimation and lattice simulation, a proposal is made that magnetic skyrmions can be generated through the pinning effect in 2D chiral magnetic materials, in absence of an external magnetic field or magnetic anisotropy.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-26 Ji-Chong Yang , Qing-Qing Mao , Yu Shi

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like chiral spin textures found in a magnetic film with out-of-planeanisotropy and are considered to be potential candidates as information carriers in next generationdata storage devices. Despite intense…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 S. Saha , M. Zelent , S. Finizio , M. Mruczkiewicz , S. Tacchi , A. K. Suszka , S. Wintz , N. S. Bingham , J. Raabe , M. Krawczyk , L. J. Heyderman

This paper reports on a theoretical proposal for electrical creation of magnetic skyrmions on a thin-film specimen of a multiferroic chiral magnet by local application of an electric field, instead of an electric current, via an electrode…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-30 Masahito Mochizuki , Yoshio Watanabe

Various transitions that a magnetic skyrmion can undergo are found in calculations using a method for climbing up the energy surface and converging onto first order saddle points. In addition to collapse and escape through a boundary, the…

Recent years have witnessed an enormous rise in research interest in magnetic skyrmions owing to their capability to improve over contemporary spintronic devices. An overview of the various magnetic interactions responsible for the…

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

Skyrmions are vortex-like localized magnetic structures that possess an integer-valued topological index known as the skyrmion number or topological charge. Skyrmion number determines the topology-related emergent magnetism, which is highly…

Voltage manipulation of skyrmions is a promising path towards low-energy spintronic devices. Here, voltage effects on skyrmions in a GdOx/Gd/Co/Pt heterostructure are observed experimentally. The results show that the skyrmion density can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Yifan Zhou , Rhodri Mansell , Sebastiaan van Dijken

The control of magnetic fields underpins a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies, ranging from the guiding of micro-robots for medical applications to the trapping of atoms for quantum experiments. Relying on different arrangements of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Rosa Mach-Batlle , Mark G. Bason , Nuria Del-Valle , Jordi Prat-Camps

The potential for application of magnetic skyrmions in high density storage devices provides a strong drive to investigate and exploit their stability and manipulability. Through a three-dimensional micromagnetic hysteresis study, we…

We report deterministic operations on single dipolar skyrmions confined in nanostructured cuboids using in-plane currents. We achieve highly reversible writing and deleting of skyrmions in the simple cuboid without any artificial defects or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Jin Tang , Jialiang Jiang , Yaodong Wu , Lingyao Kong , Yihao Wang , Junbo Li , Y. Soh , Yimin Xiong , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du

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 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