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The experimental realization of magnetic skyrmions in centrosymmetric materials has been driven by theoretical understanding of how a delicate balance of anisotropy and frustration can stabilize topological spin structures in applied…

Magnetic skyrmions in 2D chiral magnets are in general stabilized by a combination of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and external magnetic field. Here, we show that skyrmions can also be stabilized in twisted moir\'e superlattices in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-21 Muhammad Akram , Onur Erten

The archetype cubic chiral magnet MnSi is home to some of the most fascinating states in condensed matter such as skyrmions and a non-Fermi liquid behavior in conjunction with a topological Hall effect under hydrostatic pressure. Using…

Skyrmions, topologically-protected nanometric spin vortices, are being investigated extensively in various magnets. Among them, many of structurally-chiral cubic magnets host the triangular-lattice skyrmion crystal (SkX) as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-19 K. Karube , J. S. White , N. Reynolds , J. L. Gavilano , H. Oike , A. Kikkawa , F. Kagawa , Y. Tokunaga , H. M. Rønnow , Y. Tokura , Y. Taguchi

Skyrmions, topologically stable spin textures, are of great interest for new generations of spintronic devices. In general, the stabilization of skyrmions has been achieved in systems with broken inversion symmetry, where the asymmetric…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin whirls that may not be transformed continuously into topologically trivial states such as ferromagnetic spin alignment. In recent years lattice structures composed of skyrmions have been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-30 Andreas Bauer , Christian Pfleiderer

Using continuum based simulations we show that a rich variety of skyrmion liquid crystal states can be realized in the presence of a periodic obstacle array. As a function of the number of skyrmions per obstacle we find hexagonal, square,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-22 A. Duzgun , C. Nisoli , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We report the magnetization, ac susceptibility, and specific heat of optically float-zoned single crystals of Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$Si, $0.20 \leq x \leq 0.50$. We determine the magnetic phase diagrams for all major crystallographic directions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 Andreas Bauer , Markus Garst , Christian Pfleiderer

In this work, we examined the impact of disorder in a ferromagnetic skyrmion lattice by introducing random-bond disorder based on two different models for both exchange and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions: Model I, where both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-04 E. Iroulart , F. A. Gómez Albarracín , H. Diego Rosales

Magnetic skyrmions are topological solitons with a nanoscale winding spin texture that hold promise for spintronics applications. Until now, skyrmions have been observed in a variety of magnets that exhibit nearly parallel alignment for the…

In recent years, the skyrmion lattice phase with a short lattice constant has attracted attention due to its high skyrmion density, making it a promising option for achieving high-density storage memory and for observing novel phenomena…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-04 Takuya Nomoto , Ryotaro Arita

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

Using small angle neutron scattering, we have investigated higher-order peaks in the skyrmion-lattice phase of Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$, in which two different skyrmion lattices, SkX1 and SkX2, are known to form. For each skyrmion-lattice phase, we…

Many driven binary systems can exhibit laning transitions when the two species have different mobilities, such as colloidal particles with opposite charges in electric fields. Another example is pedestrian or active matter systems, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 N. P. Vizarim , J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas , F. Béron

Topologically stable field configurations appear in many fields of physics, from elementary particles to condensed matter and cosmology. During the last decade, chiral liquid crystals and chiral magnets took on the role of model objects for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Andrey O. Leonov , Catherine Pappas , Ivan I. Smalyukh

In Pedersen et al. (2011) we proposed a method to utilize a temporally dependent superlattice potential to mediate spin-selective transport, and thereby probe long and short range magnetic correlations in optical lattices. Specifically this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-29 Kim G. L. Pedersen , Brian M. Andersen , Georg M. Bruun , Anders S. Sørensen

The coupling between angular (twisting) and longitudinal modulations arising near the ordering temperature of noncentrosymmetric ferromagnets strongly influences the structure of skyrmion states and their evolution in an applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-10 Andrey O. Leonov , Alexei N. Bogdanov

We show that high concentration of skyrmions can be achieved in magnetic films with quenched disorder. A 2D system of Heisenberg spins with feromagnetic exchange, $J$, and random magnetic anisotropy of strength $D_R \ll J$ has been studied.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

Solitonic magnetic excitations such as domain walls and, specifically, skyrmionics enable the possibility of compact, high density, ultrafast,all-electronic, low-energy devices, which is the basis for the emerging area of skyrmionics. The…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin-whirl quasiparticles currently considered as promising components for ultra-dense memory devices. In the bulk they form lattices that are stable over just a few Kelvin below the ordering…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-20 Alex J. Kruchkov , J. S. White , M. Bartowiak , I. Zivcovic , A. Magrez , H. M. Rønnow