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Recent advances in the physics of current-driven antiferromagnetic skyrmions have observed the absence of a Magnus force. We outline the symmetry reasons for this phenomenon, and show that this cancellation will fail in the case of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Matthew W. Daniels , Weichao Yu , Ran Cheng , Jiang Xiao , Di Xiao

We have performed an experimental and modeling-based study of the spin-orbit torque-induced growth of magnetic stripe domains in heavy metal/ferromagnet thin-film heterostructures that possess chiral N\'eel-type domain walls due to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Jeffrey A. Brock , Daan Swinkels , Bert Koopmans , Eric E. Fullerton

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

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale windings of the spin configuration that hold great promise for technology due to their topology-related properties and extremely reduced sizes. After the recent observation at room temperature of sub-100 nm…

In this article we use chiral domain walls to manipulate and trap magnetic skyrmion quasi-particles in chiral magnetic materials such as ultrathin Co/Pt films. The magnetic skyrmions can be orientated such that their interaction with domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Paul Leask

We examine the motion of a probe particle driven through a chiral fluid composed of circularly swimming disks. We find that the probe particle travels in both the longitudinal direction, parallel to the driving force, and in the transverse…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-24 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

The magnetic skyrmionium is a skyrmion-like structure but carries a zero net skyrmion number, which can be used as a building block for non-volatile information processing devices. Here, we study the dynamics of a magnetic skyrmionium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-05 Sai Li , Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Wang Kang , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou , Weisheng Zhao

Contraction and expansion of skyrmions in ferromagnetic films are investigated. In centrosymmetric systems, the dynamics of a collapsing skyrmion is driven by dissipation. The collapse time has a minimum on the damping constant. In systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Magnetic skyrmions are believed to be the promising candidate of information carriers in spintronics. However, the skyrmion Hall effect due to the nontrivial topology of skyrmions can induce a skyrmion accumulation or even annihilation at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Xiaofan Wang , X. S. Wang , C. Wang , Huanhuan Yang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Magnetic chiral skyrmions are vortex like spin structures that appear as stable or meta-stable states in magnetic materials due to the interplay between the symmetric and antisymmetric exchange interactions, applied magnetic field and/or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-01 Changhoon Heo , Nikolai S. Kiselev , Ashis Kumar Nandy , Stefan Blügel , Theo Rasing

Thermal gradient driven skyrmion dynamics offers a promising route toward green spintronics, enabling the utilization of waste heat for information transport and processing. Using micromagnetic simulations, we investigate Neel skyrmions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yogesh Kumar , Hurmal Saren , Pintu Das

We study Dirac fermions in the presence of a space-dependent chiral gauge field and thermodynamic gradients, establishing a connection to the inverse spin Hall effect. The chiral gauge field induces a chiral magnetic field, resulting in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hung-Hsuan Teh , Tokiro Numasawa , Shun Okumura , Takashi Oka

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-scale magnetic whirls that can be driven by currents via spin torques. They are promising candidates for spintronic devices such as the racetrack memory, where a motion along the uniform current is typically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ismael Ribeiro de Assis , Ingrid Mertig , Börge Göbel

Ever increasing demand of skyrmion manipulation in nanodevices has brought up interesting research to 8 understand the stabilization of these topologically protected chiral structures. To understand the actual shape 9 and size of skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 Gajanan Pradhan , Subhankar Bedanta

We study the collective dynamics of the Skyrmion crystal (SkX) in thin films of ferromagnetic metals resulting from the nontrivial Skyrmion topology. We show that the current-driven motion of the crystal reduces the topological Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jiadong Zang , Maxim Mostovoy , Jung Hoon Han , Naoto Nagaosa

Using numerical simulations, we examine the nonlinear dynamics of skyrmions driven over random pinning. For weak pinning, the skyrmions depin elastically, retaining sixfold ordering; however, at the onset of motion there is a dip in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

The equilibrium phase space of magnetic textures in thin-films of cubic chiral ferromagnets, including skyrmions, is explored as a function of in-plane magnetic field strength, film thickness and uniaxial anisotropy. The interplay between…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-25 Cameron Rudderham , Martin Plumer , Theodore Monchesky

We study the dynamics of skyrmions under spin-transfer torque in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya materials with easy-axis anisotropy. In particular, we study the motion of a topological skyrmion with skyrmion number $Q=1$ and a non-topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

The dynamics of a vortex in a thin-film ferromagnet resembles the motion of a charged massless particle in a uniform magnetic field. Similar dynamics is expected for other magnetic textures with a nonzero skyrmion number. However, recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Imam Makhfudz , Benjamin Krueger , Oleg Tchernyshyov

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures with rich physics and great potential for unconventional computing. Typically, skyrmions form in bulk crystals with reduced symmetry or ultrathin film multilayers involving heavy metals. Here, we…