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A magnetic skyrmionium is a nontopological soliton, which has a doughnut-like out-of-plane spin texture in thin films, and can be phenomenologically viewed as a coalition of two topological magnetic skyrmions with opposite topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-22 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Yan Zhou , Daowei Wang , Xiaoxi Liu , Weisheng Zhao , Motohiko Ezawa

Micromagnetic simulations have been performed to investigate the suppression of the skyrmion Hall effect in nanotracks with their magnetic properties strategically modified. In particular, we study two categories of magnetically modified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-27 D. Toscano , J. P. A. Mendonça , A. L. S. Miranda , C. I. L. de Araujo , F. Sato , P. Z. Coura , S. A. Leonel

Self-propulsion plays a crucial role in biological processes and nanorobotics, enabling small systems to move autonomously in noisy environments. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that a bound skyrmion-skyrmion pair in a synthetic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-21 Clecio C. de Souza Silva , Matheus V. Correia , Juan C. Pina Velasquez

Magnetic bimerons are topologically nontrivial spin textures in in-plane easy-axis magnets, which can be used as particle-like information carriers. Here, we report a theoretical study on the nonreciprocal dynamics of asymmetrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Zehan Chen , Xiaoguang Li , Xichao Zhang , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Qiming Shao , Guoping Zhao , Xiaoxi Liu , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

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

We report results from a computer simulation study on the rotational ratchet effect in systems of magnetic particles interacting via dipolar interactions. The ratchet effect consists of directed rotations of the particles in an oscillating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Sebastian Jäger , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Friction plays an essential role in most physical processes that we experience in our everyday life. Examples range from our ability to walk or swim, to setting boundaries of speed and fuel efficiency of moving vehicles. In magnetic…

Magnetic bimeron composed of two merons is a topological counterpart of magnetic skyrmion in in-plane magnets, which can be used as the nonvolatile information carrier in spintronic devices. Here we analytically and numerically study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Laichuan Shen , Xiaoguang Li , Jing Xia , Lei Qiu , Xichao Zhang , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

A new topological excitation called skyrmion has been observed experimentally in chiral magnets without spatial inversion symmetry. The dynamics of a skyrmion is equivalent to an electron moving in a strong magnetic field. As a skyrmion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-14 Shi-Zeng Lin , Lev N. Bulaevskii

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

In this work we have used micromagnetic simulations to report four ways to build traps for magnetic skyrmions. Magnetic defects have been modeled as local variations in the material parameters, such as the exchange stiffness, saturation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-28 D. Toscano , S. A. Leonel , P. Z. Coura , F. Sato

The dynamics of magnetic skyrmion driven by spin-polarized current is theoretically studied in the chiral ferromagnetic film with spatially modulated Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Three cases including linear, sinusoidal, and periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Liping Zhou , Ren Qin , Ya-qing Zheng , Yong Wang

We propose a method of determining the shape of a two-dimensional magnetic skyrmion, which can be parameterized as the position dependence of the orientation of the local magnetic moment, by using the expansion in terms of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Ji-Chong Yang , Qing-Qing Mao , Yu Shi

The current-driven motion of magnetic skyrmions, as topologically protected winding vector fields of local magnetization, has attracted considerable attention due to both fundamental interest in the dynamics of topological solitons, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Felipe Reyes-Osorio , Branislav K. Nikolic

We report the current-driven dynamics of frustrated skyrmions in an antiferromagnetically exchange coupled bilayer system, where the bilayer skyrmion consists of two monolayer skyrmions with opposite skyrmion numbers $Q$. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-18 Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Zhipeng Hou , Wenhong Wang , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

We use particle-based simulations to examine the static and driven collective phases of skyrmions interacting with random quenched disorder. We show that non-dissipative effects due to the Magnus term reduce the depinning threshold and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-06 C. Reichhardt , D. Ray , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like swirling spin structures with quantized topological number, observed in chiral magnets, are appealing for potential applications in spintronics because it is possible to control their motion with ultralow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Junichi Iwasaki , Masahito Mochizuki , Naoto Nagaosa

To enable functional skyrmion based spintronic devices, the controllable generation and manipulation of skyrmions is essential. While the generation of skyrmions by using a magnetic geometrical constriction has already been demonstrated,…

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

A magnetic skyrmionium (also called 2$\pi$-skyrmion) can be understood as a skyrmion - a topologically non-trivial magnetic whirl - which is situated in the center of a second skyrmion with reversed magnetization. Here, we propose a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-22 Börge Göbel , Alexander F. Schäffer , Jamal Berakdar , Ingrid Mertig , Stuart S. P. Parkin