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Magnetic whirls in chiral magnets, so-called skyrmions, can be manipulated by ultrasmall current densities. Here we study both analytically and numerically the interactions of a single skyrmion in two dimensions with a small hole in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-05 Jan Müller , Achim Rosch

The Skyrmion Hall Effect (SkHE) observed in ferromagnetic (FM) and ferrimagnetic (FI) skyrmions traveling due to a spin-polarized current can be a problematic issue when it comes to technological applications. By investigating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 R. C. Silva , R. L. Silva , J. C. Moreira , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

We introduce a new class of primitive building blocks for realizing quantum logic elements based on nanoscale magnetization textures called skyrmions. In a skyrmion qubit, information is stored in the quantum degree of helicity, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Christina Psaroudaki , Christos Panagopoulos

Real-space topological magnetic structures such as skyrmions and merons are promising candidates for information storage and transport. However, the microscopic mechanisms that control their formation and evolution are still not clear.…

The potential for manipulating characteristics of skyrmions in a CrI$_3$ monolayer using circularly polarised light is explored. The effective skyrmion-light interaction is mediated by bright excitons whose magnetization is selectively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 M. Kazemi , A. Kudlis , P. F. Bessarab , I. A. Shelykh

The skyrmion, which is characterised by a topological integer, is a structure that is topologically stable against local disturbances. The huge potential of skyrmions for use in magnetic storage systems has drawn considerable research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Jie Zhu , Sheng Liu , Yong-Sheng Zhang

We report on the effect of the lateral confinement and a perpendicular magnetic field on isolated room-temperature magnetic skyrmions in sputtered Pt/Co/MgO nanotracks and nanodots. We show that the skyrmions size can be easily tuned by…

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic textures that hold great promise as nanoscale bits of information in memory and logic devices. Although room-temperature ferromagnetic skyrmions and their current-induced manipulation have been…

In skyrmion-based racetrack memories, the information encoded by skyrmions may be destroyed due to the skyrmion Hall effect, which can be surmounted by using synthetic antiferromagnetic racetracks. Hence, the manipulation of skyrmions in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-18 Renan P. Loreto , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Motohiko Ezawa , Xiaoxi Liu , Clodoaldo I. L. de Araújo

Integrating magnetic skyrmions into neuromorphic computing could help improve hardware efficiency and computational power. However, developing a scalable implementation of the weighted sum of neuron signals - a core operation in neural…

Electric manipulation of skyrmions in 2D magnetic materials has garnered significant attention due to the potential in energy-efficient spintronic devices. In this work, using first-principles calculations and Monte Carlo simulations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-11 Jingman Pang , Hongjia Wang , Yufei Tang , Yun Zhang , Laurent Bellaiche

The interesting physics and potential memory technologies resulting from topologically protected spin textures such as skyrmions, has prompted efforts to discover new material systems that can host these kind of magnetic structures. Here we…

The study of nanospintronic devices utilizing coherent transport through molecular scale multiply-connected geometries in the presence of moderate magnetic fields is presented. It is shown how two types of simple devices, spin filters and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Guy Cohen , Oded Hod , Eran Rabani

We propose a new method to generate magnetic skyrmions through spin-wave focusing in chiral ferromagnets.A lens is constructed to focus spin waves by a curved interface between two ferromagnetic thin films with different perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Zhenyu Wang , Z. -X. Li , Ruifang Wang , Bo Liu , Hao Meng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Recently, magnetic skyrmion has emerged as an active topic of fundamental study and applications in magnetic materials research. Magnetic skyrmions are vortex-like spin excitations with topological protection and therefore are more robust…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-23 S. Joseph Poon , Chung Ting Ma

Magnetic skyrmions are nanometric spin textures of outstanding potential for spintronic applications due to unique features governed by their non-trivial topology. It is well known that skyrmions of definite chirality are stabilized by the…

Magnetic skyrmions are quasiparticle configurations in a magnetic film that can act as information carrying bits for ultrasmall, all-electronic nonvolatile memory. The skyrmions can be nucleated and driven by spin-orbit torque from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Hamed Vakili , Yunkun Xie , Avik W. Ghosh

Current-driven magnetic skyrmions show promise as carriers of information bits in racetrack magnetic memory applications. Specifically, the utilization of skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) systems is highly attractive due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Dimitris Kechrakos , Mario Carpentieri , Anna Giordano , Riccardo Tomasello , Giovanni Finocchio

Topological spin textures can serve as non-volatile information carriers. Here we study the current-induced dynamics of an isolated magnetic skyrmion on a nanoscale square-grid pinning pattern formed by orthogonal defect lines with reduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Keiichiro Shirai , Hiroshi Fujiwara , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou , Xiaoxi Liu

Skyrmions and antiskyrmions are nanoscale swirling textures of magnetic moments formed by chiral interactions between atomic spins in magnetic non-centrosymmetric materials and multilayer films with broken inversion symmetry. These…