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Using a particle-based model, we examine the collective dynamics of skyrmions interacting with a funnel potential under dc driving as the skyrmion density and relative strength of the Magnus and damping terms are varied. For driving in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas

Current-induced motion of non-axisymmetric skyrmions within angular phases of polar helimagnetis with the easy plane anisotropy is studied by micromagnetic simulations.Such non-axisymmetric skyrmions consist of a circular core and a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-10 Remi Murooka , Andrey O. Leonov , Katsuya Inoue , Jun-ichiro Ohe

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in chiral magnets in the presence of a spin polarized current. The motion of skyrmions in the ferromagnetic background excites spin waves and contributes to additional damping. At a large current, the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-15 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

Skyrmions and antiskyrmions in magnetic ultrathin films are characterised by a topological charge describing how the spins wind around their core. This topology governs their response to forces in the rigid core limit. However, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Ulrike Ritzmann , Stephan von Malottki , Joo-Von Kim , Stefan Heinze , Jairo Sinova , Bertrand Dupé

Using Langevin molecular dynamics simulations we study relaxation processes of interacting skyrmion systems with and without quenched disorder. Using the typical diffusion length as the time-dependent length characterizing the relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Barton L. Brown , Uwe C. Täuber , Michel Pleimling

Using atomistic magnetic simulations we investigate the soliton motion along a pinned skyrmion chain containing an interstitial skyrmion. We find that the soliton can exhibit stable motion along the chain without a skyrmion Hall effect for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas

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

A key issue for skyrmion dynamics and devices are pinning effects present in real systems. While posing a challenge for the realization of conventional skyrmionics devices, exploiting pinning effects can enable non-conventional computing…

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic textures that hold great promise as nanoscale bits of information in memory and logic devices. Although room-temperature ferromagnetic skyrmions and their current-induced manipulation have been…

The well-known Hall effect describes the transverse deflection of charged particles (electrons or holes) in an electric-current carrying conductor under the influence of perpendicular magnetic fields, as a result of the Lorentz force.…

We examine skyrmions interacting with a square array of obstacles under ac drives applied in one or two directions. For a single direction of ac driving, we find that the Magnus force in conjunction with the obstacle interactions can create…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas , C. Reichhardt

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

In chiral magnets, localized topological magnetic whirls, magnetic skyrmions, can be moved by spin polarized electric currents. Upon increasing the current strength, with prospects for high-speed skyrmion motion for spintronics applications…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 Jan Masell , Davi R. Rodrigues , Ben F. McKeever , Karin Everschor-Sitte

The understanding of the dynamical properties of skyrmion is a fundamental aspect for the realization of a competitive skyrmion based technology beyond CMOS. Most of the theoretical approaches are based on the approximation of a rigid…

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like objects with topologically-protected stability which can be set into motion with an applied current. Using a particle-based model we simulate current-driven magnetic skyrmions interacting with random…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-09 Sebastian A. Diaz , C. J. O. Reichhardt , Daniel P. Arovas , Avadh Saxena , C. Reichhardt

Magnetic skyrmions are highly promising candidates for future spintronic applications such as skyrmion racetrack memories and logic devices. They exhibit exotic and complex dynamics governed by topology and are less influenced by defects,…

We examine the dynamics of skyrmions in systems with a region of strong pinning coexisting with a pin free region, where the equilibrium state has a uniform skyrmion density. Under an applied drive, skyrmions accumulate in the pin free…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We compare the driven dynamics of skyrmions, antiskyrmions, and skyrmionium interacting with random disorder, circular defects, and asymmetric potentials. When interacting with a line defect at a constant drive, skyrmions and antiskyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas

Taking all the magnon modes into account, we derive the skyrmion dynamics in response to a weak external drive. A skyrmion has rotational symmetry and the magnon modes can be characterized by an angular momentum. For a weak distortion of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-20 Shi-Zeng Lin

We examine skyrmions under a dc drive interacting with a square array of obstacles for varied obstacle size and damping. When the drive is applied in a fixed direction, we find that the skyrmions are initially guided in the drive direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 N. P. Vizarim , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas