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Ambient magnetic skyrmions stabilized in multilayer nanostructures are of immense interest due to their relevance to magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices for memory and unconventional computing applications. However, existing skyrmionic…

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

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

Lithium Niobate (LN) is a ferroelectric material with exceptional electrical characteristics, including high piezoelectricity, high Pockels effect, etc. These properties make it a promising platform for numerous fields such as high-speed…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-20 Yalong Yu , Bo Xiong , Siqi Wu , Yekai Ren , Nuo Chen , Qingjiao Mi , Kangping Lou , Rui Wang , Tao Chu

Magnetic skyrmion holds promise as information carriers in the next-generation memory and logic devices, owing to the topological stability, small size and extremely low current needed to drive it. One of the most potential applications of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Wang Kang , Chentian Zheng , Yangqi Huang , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Weifeng Lv , Weisheng Zhao

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale topological spin structures offering great promise for next-generation information storage technologies. The recent discovery of sub-100 nm room temperature (RT) skyrmions in several multilayer films has…

A hybrid structure combining the advantages of topological insulator (TI), dielectric ferromagnet (FM), and graphene is investigated to realize the electrically controlled correlation between electronic and magnetic subsystems for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 Xiaopeng Duan , Yuriy G. Semenov , Ki Wook Kim

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 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…

The magnetization reversal in 330 nm triangular prismatic magnetic nanoelements with variable magnetocrystalline anisotropy similar to that of partially chemically ordered FePt is studied using micromagnetic simulations employing Finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Leonidas N. Gergidis , Vasileios D. Stavrou , Drosos Kourounis , Ioannis Panagiotopoulos

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

Magnetic skyrmions are vortex-like, swirls of magnetisation whose topological protection and particle-like nature have suggested them to be suitable for a number of novel spintronic devices. One such application is skyrmionic computing,…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures known for their robustness against perturbations. Their topological stability makes them robust information carriers, ideal for tackling a key challenge in quantum computing:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Haowen Yang , Gerald Bissell , Han Zhong , Peter Van Kirk , Tiger Cao , Pengcheng Lu , Yingying Wu

Antiferromagnetic(AFM) skyrmions have been in the spotlight as ideal topological magnetic bits. Although they are topologically protected, they do not exhibit the skyrmion Hall effect unlike the ferromagnetic ones. Thus, AFM skyrmions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Jemin Park , HaRu K. Park , SungBin Lee

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…

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

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that hold great promise as nanoscale information carriers in non-volatile memory and logic devices. While room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-induced manipulation were…

Optical skyrmions offer a robust vectorial information degree of freedom for free-space communication, but practical deployment requires a compact platform capable of active topological reconfiguration. Here, we propose a silicon…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zili Cai , Tian Zhang , Qi Chen , Zheng Wang , Jian Dai , Kun Xu

Electromagnetic (EM) skyrmions are an EM analogue of the skyrmions in condensed matter physics, which offer new degrees of freedom to structure light and manipulate light matter interactions and thus promise various groundbreaking…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Jie Yang , Xuezhi Zheng , Jiafu Wang , Yueting Pan , Anxue Zhang , Tiejun Cui , Guy A E Vandenbosch

The ground states of square lattice two-dimensional antiferromagnets with anisotropy in an external magnetic field are determined using Monte Carlo simulations and compared to theoretical analysis. We find a new phase in between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Rick Keesman , Mark Raaijmakers , A. E. Baerends , G. T. Barkema , R. A. Duine