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Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin structures that naturally emerge in magnetic materials. While a vast amount of effort has gone into the study of their properties, their counterpart of opposite topological charge, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-01 Juan C. Criado , Peter D. Hatton , Sebastian Schenk , Michael Spannowsky , Luke A. Turnbull

Topologically stable structures include vortices in a wide variety of matter, such as skyrmions in ferro- and antiferromagnets, and hedgehog point defects in liquid crystals and ferromagnets. These are characterized by integer-valued…

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

Skyrmions are promising for the next generation of spintronic and magnonic devices, but their zero-field stability and controlled nucleation through chiral interactions remain challenging. In this theoretical study, we explore the potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-13 Bilal Jabakhanji , Doried Ghader

We theoretically study a stabilization mechanism of the skyrmion crystal in centrosymmetric magnets with a bilayer structure. We show that the interplay between a layer-dependent staggered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction that arises from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-10 Satoru Hayami

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…

A magnetic skyrmion is a topological object that can exist as a solitary embedded in the vast ferromagnetic phase, or coexists with a group of its "siblings" in various stripy phases as well as skyrmion crystals (SkXs). Isolated skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 H. T. Wu , X. C. Hu , K. Y. Jing , X. R. Wang

We present an analytical theory to describe three-dimensional magnetic textures in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic multilayers that arise in the presence of magnetostatic interactions and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-06 Ivan Lemesh , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

In bulk helimagnets, the presence of magnetic skyrmion lattices is always accompanied by a periodic stress field due to the intrinsic magnetoelastic coupling. The release of this nontrivial stress field at the surface causes a periodic…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-13 Xuejin Wan , Yangfan Hu , Biao Wang

We perform an extensive study of the spin-configurations in a PdFe bilayer on Ir(111) in terms of ab initio and spin-model calculations. We use the spin-cluster expansion technique to obtain spin model parameters, and solve the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 E. Simon , K. Palotas , L. Rozsa , L. Udvardi , L. Szunyogh

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures with non-trivial topology that comprise two-dimensional quasi-particles and are promising information carriers for data storage and processing devices. Skyrmion lattices in magnetic thin films…

Skyrmions represent topologically stable field configurations with particle-like properties. We used neutron scattering to observe the spontaneous formation of a two-dimensional lattice of skyrmion lines, a type of magnetic vortices, in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Mühlbauer , B. Binz , F. Jonietz , C. Pfleiderer , A. Rosch , A. Neubauer , R. Georgii , P. Böni

Two-dimensional magnetic van der Waals (vdW) materials can show a variety of topological nontrivial spin textures, such as Bloch- or N\'eel-type stripe, skyrmion or bubble domains under certain external stimuli. It is critical to understand…

The realization of magnetic skyrmions in nanostructures holds great promise for both fundamental research and device applications. Despite recent progress, intrinsic magnetic skyrmions in two-dimensional lattice are still rarely explored.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-11 Wenhui Du , Kaiying Dou , Zhonglin He , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

We study inter-skyrmion interactions and stable spin configurations in a 2D chiral magnet with in-plane anisotropies of a tilted magnetic field and the magneto-crystalline anisotropy on a (011) thin film. We find that in both cases a small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Mai Kameda , Rio Koyama , Takuro Nakajima , Yuki Kawaguchi

The phase diagram of cubic helimagnets near the critical temperature is obtained from a Landau-Ginzburg model, including fluctuations to gaussian level. The free energy is evaluated via a saddle point expansion around the local minima of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-12 Victor Laliena , German Albalate , Javier Campo

We study the impact of an exchange-reducing defect on a skyrmion for a thin film of finite thickness. Attraction of the skyrmion to a defect is demonstrated in a lattice model by computing the micromagnetic energy accounting for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Amel Derras-Chouk , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

We study the surface fluctuations of a tissue with a dynamics dictated by cell-rearrangement, cell-division, and cell-death processes. Surface fluctuations are calculated in the homeostatic state, where cell division and cell death…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Thomas Risler , Aurélien Peilloux , Jacques Prost

Manipulating topological magnetic orders of two-dimensional (2D) magnets by strain, once achieved, offers enormous potential for future low-power flexible spintronic applications. In this work, by placing Fe3GaTe2 (FGaT), a room-temperature…

In three-dimensional chiral magnets, skyrmions are line-like objects oriented parallel to the applied magnetic field. The efficient coupling of magnetic skyrmion lattices to spin currents and magnetic fields permits their dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-03 Felix Rucker , Alla Bezvershenko , Denis Mettus , Andreas Bauer , Markus Garst , Achim Rosch , Christian Pfleiderer