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Magnetic skyrmions have attracted great research interest in recent years due to their exotic physical properties, scientific merit and potential applications in modern technology. Here, we apply a quantum computational method to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Zhaosen Liu , Tiantian Huan , Hou Ian

The analysis of the spin wave excitations in two-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg ferromagnet is performed with a single skyrmion in the ground state. We employ the ideas of semiclassical quantization method, duly modified for the use of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-29 D. N. Aristov , S. S. Kravchenko , A. O. Sorokin

Fractionalization remains one of the most fascinating manifestations of strong interactions in quantum many-body systems. In quantum magnetism, the existence of spinons -- collective magnetic excitations that behave as quasiparticles with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-31 N. E. Shaik , E. Fogh , B. Dalla Piazza , B. Normand , D. Ivanov , H. M. Rønnow

Traditionally, skyrmions are treated as continuum magnetic textures of classical spins with a well-defined topological skyrmion number. Owing to their topological protection, skyrmions have attracted great interest as building blocks in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-24 Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

We present a microscopic theory of skyrmions in the monolayer quantum Hall ferromagnet. It is a peculiar feature of the system that the number density and the spin density are entangled intrinsically as dictated by the W$%_{\infty}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Tsitsishvili , Z. F. Ezawa

Magnets have recently emerged as promising candidates for quantum computing, particularly using topologically-protected nanoscale spin textures. While the quantum dynamics of such spin textures has been theoretically studied, direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Sanchar Sharma , Christina Psaroudaki

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable whirlpool-like spin textures that offer great promise as information carriers for future ultra-dense memory and logic devices1-4. To enable such applications, particular attention has been focused…

Magnetic systems are an exciting realm of study that is being explored on smaller and smaller scales. One extremely interesting magnetic state that has gained momentum in recent years is the skyrmionic state. It is characterized by a vortex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Patrick Johnson , A K Gangopadhyay , Ramki Kalyanaraman , Zohar Nussinov

Quantum states of a skyrmion in a 2D antiferromagnetic lattice are obtained by quantizing the scaling parameter of Belavin-Polyakov model. Skyrmion classical collapse due to violation of the translational invariance of the continuous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 A. Derras-Chouk , E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

A continuum model of frustrated ferromagnets is analyzed in detail in the regime of low applied magnetic field, $H_0<1/4$, where the ground state is a spatially varying conical spiral. By changing variables to a corotating spin field, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-03 Martin Speight , Thomas Winyard

Magnetic skyrmions are vortex-like quasiparticles characterized by long lifetime and remarkable topological properties. That makes them a promising candidate for the role of information carriers in magnetic information storage and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Fabio Salvati , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Andrey A. Bagrov , Tom Westerhout

Skyrmions are important in topological quantum field theory for being soliton solutions of a nonlinear sigma model and in information technology for their attractive applications. Skyrmions are believed to be circular and stripy spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 X. R. Wang , X. C. Hu , H. T. Wu

Numerical results are presented for the spin excitations of a two-dimensional electron gas confined to a quantum well of width w. Spin waves and charged skyrmion excitations are studied for filling factors nu=1, 3, and 1/3. Phase diagrams…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Arkadiusz Wojs , John J. Quinn

Excitation with a massive spin reversal of the individual skyrmion/antiskyrmion type is theoretically studied in a quantum Hall ferromagnet, where the zero and first Landau levels are completely occupied only by electrons with spins aligned…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-21 S. Dickmann , P. S. Berezhnoy

Skyrmions are spatially localized magnetic swirls which carry a nonzero integer topological charge. We study crystals of skyrmions in a two-dimensional ferromagnet model with chiral interactions induced by the presence of broken inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-22 Sopheak Sorn , Stefan Divic , Arun Paramekanti

We report the discovery and direct visualization of skyrmion clusters with mutually-orthogonal orientations of constituent isolated skyrmions in chiral liquid crystals and ferromagnets. We show that the nascent conical state underlies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Hayley. R. O. Sohn , Sergei M. Vlasov , Valeriy M. Uzdin , Andrey O. Leonov , Ivan I. Smalyukh

The flow of electric current through a two-dimensional material in a magnetic field gives rise to the family of Hall effects. The quantum versions of these effects accommodate robust electronic edge channels and fractional charges.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-21 Robert Peters , Jannis Neuhaus-Steinmetz , Thore Posske

We study the creation of quantum skyrmions in quadratic nanoscopic lattices of quantum spins coupled by Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya and exchange interactions. We numerically show that different kinds of quantum skyrmions, characterized by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Pia Siegl , Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Martin Stier , Michael Thorwart , Thore Posske

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