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Magnetic skyrmions are topologically wound nanoscale textures of spins whose ambient stability and electrical manipulation in multilayer films have led to an explosion of research activities. While past efforts focused predominantly on…

It is known that the chiral interaction described by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DMI) term lead to the plethora of topological structures of magnetic spins, such as helical or skyrmion phases. Here we present the that analogues electrical DMI…

Chiral active matter is a variant of active matter systems in which the motion of the constituent particles violates mirror symmetry. In this letter, we simulate two-dimensional chiral Active Brownian Particles, the simplest chiral model in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-03 Kangeun Jeong , Yuta Kuroda , Yuki Asatani , Takeshi Kawasaki , Kunimasa Miyazaki

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

Understanding the spin-wave excitations of chiral magnetic order, such as the skyrmion crystal (SkX), is of fundamental interest to confirm such exotic magnetic order. The SkX is realized by competing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-14 Narayan Mohanta , Andrew D. Christianson , Satoshi Okamoto , Elbio Dagotto

Within the Oseen-Frank theory we derive numerically exact solutions for axisymmetric localized states in chiral liquid crystal layers with homeotropic anchoring. These solutions describe recently observed two-dimensional skyrmions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 A. O. Leonov , I. E. Dragunov , U. K. Rößler , A. N. Bogdanov

Novel types of barrel-shaped chiral skyrmions can exist as isolated topological defects or as bound states in magnetic nanolayers with intrinsic and surface/interface induced chirality. The equilibrium parameters of chiral modulations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 A. O. Leonov

Chiral skyrmion states exist in non - centrosymmetric magnetic crystals as a consequence of the asymmetric exchange Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions that destroy the homogeneous magnetic state and generally lead to twisted incommensurate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-10 A. O. Leonov

Magnetic skyrmions have been receiving growing attention as potential information storage and magnetic logic devices since an increasing number of materials have been identified that support skyrmion phases. Explorations of artificial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-12 Fusheng Ma , C. Reichhardt , Weiliang Gan , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , Wen Siang Lew

Skyrmions--topologically protected nanoscale spin textures with vortex-like configurations--hold transformative potential for ultra-dense data storage, spintronics and quantum computing. However, their practical utility is challenged by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Lei Liu , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Magnetic skyrmions, which are topological particle-like excitations in ferromagnets, have attracted a lot of attention recently. Skyrmionics is an attempt to use magnetic skyrmions as information carriers in next generation spintronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions can be considered as topologically protected localized vortex-like spin textures. Due to their stability, their small size, and the possibility to move them by low electric currents they are promising candidates for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Martin Stier , Wolfgang Häusler , Thore Posske , Gregor Gurski , Michael Thorwart

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 two-dimensional non-collinear spin textures characterised by an integer topological number. They commonly crystallise at low temperatures in bulk noncentrosymmetric ferromagnets where the lack of inversion symmetry…

We analyze the interaction with uniform external fields of nematic liquid crystals within a recent generalized free-energy posited by Virga and falling in the class of quartic functionals in the spatial gradients of the nematic director. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-08 G. De Matteis , L. Martina , C. Naya , V. Turco

Magnetic skyrmions are mesmerizing spin textures with peculiar topological and dynamical properties, typically the product of competing interactions in ferromagnets, and with great technological potential [1-5]. Researchers have long…

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

Skyrmions are topological magnetic textures that can arise in non-centrosymmetric ferromagnetic materials. In most systems experimentally investigated to date, skyrmions emerge as classical objects. However, the discovery of skyrmions with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-07 Andreas Haller , Solofo Groenendijk , Alireza Habibi , Andreas Michels , Thomas L. Schmidt

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

Magnetic skyrmions, topologically stabilized chiral magnetic textures with particle-like properties have so far primarily been studied statically. Here, we experimentally investigate the dynamics of skyrmion ensembles in metallic thin film…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Klaus Raab , Maurice Schmitt , Maarten A. Brems , Jan Rothörl , Fabian Kammerbauer , Sachin Krishnia , Mathias Kläui , Peter Virnau