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Three-dimensional topological solitons attract a great deal of interest in fields ranging from particle physics to cosmology but remain experimentally elusive in solid-state magnets. Here we numerically predict magnetic heliknotons, an…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-28 Robert Voinescu , Jung-Shen B. Tai , Ivan I. Smalyukh

An electron moving in a magnetically ordered background feels an effective magnetic field that can be both stronger and more rapidly varying than typical externally applied fields. One consequence is that insulating magnetic materials in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joel E. Moore , Ying Ran , Xiao-Gang Wen

Toroidal modes in the form of so-called Hopfions, with two independent winding numbers, a hidden one (twist, s), which characterizes a circular vortex thread embedded into a three-dimensional soliton, and the vorticity around the vertical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 Y. V. Kartashov , B. A. Malomed , Y. Shnir , L. Torner

Paradigmatic knotted solitons, Hopfions, that are characterized by topological Hopf invariant, are widely investigated in the diverse areas ranging from high energy physics, cosmology and astrophysics to biology, magneto- and hydrodynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 I. Luk'yanchuk , Y. Tikhonov , A. Razumnaya , V. M. Vinokur

Materials with spin-momentum locked surface or interface states provide an interesting playground for studying physics and application of charge-spin current conversion. To characterize their non-equilibrium magnetic and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Ping Tang , Xiufeng Han , Shufeng Zhang

Stable three-dimensional topological skyrmion structures in frustrated magnets are investigated. The texture exhibits a helicoid pattern along the vertical direction, described by a position-dependent helicity, which interpolates between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Carlos Saji , Eduardo Saavedra , Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos , Alvaro S. Nunez , Roberto E. Troncoso

The surface of a 3D topological insulator is conducting and the topologically nontrivial nature of the surface states is observed in experiments. It is the aim of this paper to review and analyze experimental observations with respect to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-11 M. Veldhorst , M. Snelder , M. Hoek , C. G. Molenaar , D. P. Leusink , A. A. Golubov , H. Hilgenkamp , A. Brinkman

Magnetic hopfions are localized magnetic solitons with a nonzero 3D topological charge (Hopf index). Herein, an analytical calculation of the magnetic hopfion gyrovector is presented and it is shown that it does not vanish even in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Dariia Popadiuk , Elena Tartakovskaya , Maciej Krawczyk , Kostyantyn Guslienko

We extend the definition of hopfions to include a class of spin-$h$ fields and use this to introduce the electromagnetic and gravitational hopfions of different algebraic types. The fields are constructed through the Penrose contour…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Amy Thompson , Alexander Wickes , Joe Swearngin , Dirk Bouwmeester

Magnetic textures can be manipulated by electric currents via the mechanisms of spin-transfer and spin-orbit-torques. We review how these torques can be exploited to create chiral magnetic textures in magnets with broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Jan Masell , Karin Everschor-Sitte

A new type of three-dimensional magnetic soliton in easy-axis ferromagnets is predicted by taking simultaneous account of the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction and an external magnetic field. The numerically obtained static three-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-23 A. B. Borisov , F. N. Rybakov

Magnetic skyrmionium can be used as a nanometer-scale non-volatile information carrier, which shows no skyrmion Hall effect due to its special structure carrying zero topological charge. Here, we report the static and dynamic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Zhipeng Hou , Wenhong Wang , Guoping Zhao , Xiaoxi Liu , Hung T. Diep , Yan Zhou

We study the collision of two hopfions or Hopf-Ra\~nada electromagnetic fields. The superposition of two of such fields, travelling in opposite directions, yields different topology for the electric and magnetic field lines. Controlling the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 M. Arrayás , J. L. Trueba

We study scattering of itinerant electrons off a magnetic hopfion in a three-dimensional metallic magnet described by a magnetization vector $\mathbf S(\mathbf r)$. A hopfion is a confined topological soliton of $\mathbf S(\mathbf r)$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Domenico Andreoli , Jiadong Zang

We construct new solutions of the Faddeev-Skyrme-Maxwell model, which represent Hopf solitons coupled to magnetic fluxes. It turns out that coupling to the magnetic field allows for transmutations of the solitons, however, the results…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-27 A. Samoilenka , Ya. Shnir

Spin-transfer torque is one of the important physical quantities to understand for successful application of topological insulators to spintronics. In this paper, we present analytical expressions of the spin-transfer torques on a surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Daichi Kurebayashi , Naoto Nagaosa

The three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs), hosting topologically protected helical surface states, can be promoted into second-order TIs when a diagonal Zeeman term, typical of magnetic doping, is introduced. The latter hosts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Zhe Hou , Ai-Min Guo

This work provides the first experimental elucidation of quantum topological effects in individual hopfions, establishing their potential as building blocks for three-dimensional topological quantum spintronics. The observed Non-Abelian…

Hopfions, as three-dimensional topologically nontrivial structures described by poloidal and toroidal winding numbers, hold promise as robust information carriers in spintronics, functional materials, and optical communications. Although…

Magnetic solitons are promising for applications due to their intrinsic properties such as small size, topological stability, ultralow power manipulation and potentially ultrafast operations. To date, research has focused on the…