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Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures promising for future high-density and nonvolatile memory. It is crucial to understand the current-driven skyrmion dynamics in the presence of deformation, of which an analytical model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Zehan Chen , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Qiming Shao

We study the motion of magnetic skyrmions in a nanowire induced by a spin-wave current $J$ flowing out of a driving layer close to the edge of the wire. By applying micromagnetic simulation and an analysis of the effective Thiele equation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Xichao Zhang , Jan Müller , Jing Xia , Markus Garst , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like swirling spin structures with quantized topological number, observed in chiral magnets, are appealing for potential applications in spintronics because it is possible to control their motion with ultralow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Junichi Iwasaki , Masahito Mochizuki , Naoto Nagaosa

We propose a mechanism to pin skyrmions in chiral magnets by introducing local maximum of magnetic exchange strength, which can be realized in chiral magnetic thin films by engineering the local density of itinerate electrons. Thus we find…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-07 Ye-Hua Liu , You-Quan Li

We study current-driven skyrmion motion in uniaxial thin film antiferromagnets in the presence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and in an external magnetic field. We phenomenologically include relaxation and current-induced torques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Hristo Velkov , Olena Gomonay , Maarten Beens , Georg Schwiete , Arne Brataas , Jairo Sinova , Rembert A. Duine

We study skyrmions in magnetic thin films with structural inversion asymmetry perpendicular to the film plane. We determine the magnetization texture of a single skyrmion and its dependence on the strength of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 M. E. Knoester , Jairo Sinova , R. A. Duine

We numerically examine thermal effects on the skyrmion Hall angle for driven skyrmions interacting with quenched disorder. We identify a creep regime in which motion occurs via intermittent jumps between pinned and flowing states. Here the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Magnetic skyrmions are localized topological excitations that behave as particles and can be mobile, with great potential for novel data storage devices. In this work, the current-induced dynamics of large skyrmion bubbles is studied. When…

Recent experiments have found that applied electric fields can induce motion of skyrmions in chiral nematic liquid crystals. To understand the magnitude and direction of the induced motion, we develop a coarse-grained approach to describe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-03 Cheng Long , Jonathan V. Selinger

Using a particle-based simulation model, we show that quenched disorder creates a drive-dependent skyrmion Hall effect as measured by the change in the ratio $R=V_{\perp}/V_{||}$ of the skyrmion velocity perpendicular ($V_{\perp}$) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-06 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in a metallic chiral magnet. First we show that skyrmions can be created dynamically by destabilizing the ferromagnetic background state through a spin polarized current. We then treat skyrmions as rigid…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-14 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

The influence of the geometrical curvature of chiral magnetic films on the static and dynamic properties of hosted skyrmions are studied theoretically. We predict the effects of the curvature-induced drift of skyrmions under the action of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-14 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Attila Kakay , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk

We numerically examine the dynamics of individually dragged skyrmions interacting simultaneously with an array of other skyrmions and quenched disorder. For drives just above depinning, we observe a broad band noise signal with a $1/f$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

Current-driven motion of domain walls and skyrmions is central to the operation of non-volatile magnetic memory devices. Racetrack memory requires current densities high enough to generate velocities above 50 m/s, but such conditions also…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-14 Anton V. Hlushchenko , Mykhailo I. Bratchenko , Aleksei V. Chechkin

We use atomistic-based simulations to investigate the behavior of ferromagnetic skyrmions being continuously compressed against a rigid wall under dc and ac drives. The compressed skyrmions can be annihilated close to the wall and form a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas

We study the Skyrmion dynamics in thin films under a temperature gradient. Our numerical simulations show that both single and multiple Skyrmions in a crystal move towards the high temperature region, which is contrary to particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lingyao Kong , Jiadong Zang

Magnetic skyrmions, as a whirling spin texture with axisymmetry, cannot be propelled by a uniform magnetic field. Therefore, reported skyrmion motions have been induced using other sorts of stimuli; typically, electric currents in magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Xiangjun Xing , Yan Zhou

We study the current-driven motion of metastable localized spin structures with various topological charges in a (Pt$_{1-x}$Ir$_{x}$)/Fe bilayer on a Pd(111) surface by combining atomistic spin model simulations with an approach based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Markus Weißenhofer , Ulrich Nowak

We examine driven skyrmion dynamics in systems with inhomogeneous pinning where a strip of strong pinning coexists with a region containing no pinning. For driving parallel to the strip, we find that the initial skyrmion motion is confined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We study the current-driven skyrmion expulsion from magnetic nanostrips using micromagnetic simulations and analytic calculations. We explore the threshold current density for the skyrmion expulsion, and show that this threshold is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Myoung-Woo Yoo , Vincent Cros , Joo-Von Kim