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We show using numerical simulations that slowly driven skyrmions interacting with random pinning move via correlated jumps or avalanches. The avalanches exhibit power law distributions in their duration and size, and the average avalanche…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 S. A. Diaz , C. Reichhardt , D. P. Arovas , A. Saxena , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Based on micromagnetic simulation and analysis of Thiele's equation, in this work we demonstrate that ratchet motion of skyrmion can be induced by a biharmonic in-plane magnetic field hx(t) = h1sin(mwt) + h2sin(nwt + phi), provided that…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-27 Weijin Chen , Linjie Liu , Ye Ji , Yue Zheng

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study particle-transport in a system of interacting colloidal particles on a ring, where the system is driven by a time-dependent external potential, moving along the ring. We consider two driving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-06 Shubhashis Rana , Sanchari Goswami , Sakuntala Chatterjee , Punyabrata Pradhan

Magnetic skyrmion motion induced by an electric current has drawn much interest because of its application potential in next-generation magnetic memory devices. Recently, unidirectional skyrmion motion driven by an oscillating magnetic…

Non-flat energy landscapes leading to localized pinning of skyrmions pose an inherent and unavoidable challenge for studies of fundamental 2D spin structure dynamics as well as applications. Accounting for pinning is a key requirement for…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial nanoscale objects. Their topology, which originates in their chiral domain wall winding, governs their unique response to a motion-inducing force. When subjected to an electrical current, the…

We theoretically study the current-driven domain wall motion in the presence of both the spin Hall effect and an extrinsic pinning potential. The spin Hall effect mainly affects the damping ratio of the domain wall precession in the pinning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Jisu Ryu , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee

We study the effect of disorder on the dynamics of a transverse domain wall in ferromagnetic nanostrips, driven either by magnetic fields or spin-polarized currents, by performing a large ensemble of GPU-accelerated micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Ben Van de Wiele , Lasse Laurson , Gianfranco Durin

We examine skyrmions driven periodically over random quenched disorder and show that there is a transition from reversible motion to a state in which the skyrmion trajectories are chaotic or irreversible. We find that the characteristic…

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

We investigate, numerically, the effects of externally imposed material flows on the structure and temporal evolution of liquid crystal skyrmions. The dynamics of a 2D system of skyrmions is modeled using the Ericksen-Leslie theory, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-25 Rodrigo C. V. Coelho , Mykola Tasinkevych , Margarida M. Telo da Gama

Spontaneously emergent chirality is an issue of fundamental importance across the natural sciences. It has been argued that a unidirectional (chiral) rotation of a mechanical ratchet is forbidden in thermal equilibrium, but becomes possible…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-23 M. Mochizuki , X. Z. Yu , S. Seki , N. Kanazawa , W. Koshibae , J. Zang , M. Mostovoy , Y. Tokura , N. Nagaosa

We report the current-driven dynamics of frustrated skyrmions in an antiferromagnetically exchange coupled bilayer system, where the bilayer skyrmion consists of two monolayer skyrmions with opposite skyrmion numbers $Q$. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-18 Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Zhipeng Hou , Wenhong Wang , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

Two-dimensional magnetic skyrmions are particle-like magnetic domains in magnetic thin films. The kinetic property of the magnetic skyrmions at finite temperature is well described by the Thiele equation, including a stochastic field and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-31 Yoshishige Suzuki , Soma Miki , Eiiti Tamura

Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture stabilized by the protection due to their topology. In most cases they are induced by chiral interactions between atomic spins existing in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-21 Albert Fert , Nicolas Reyren , Vincent Cros

The relation between domain wall motion and intensity of driven current is examined in a phenomenological theory where the kinetic energy is expanded as a series of polynomial function of current density just as the Landau phase transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Hao Yu

Despite significant advances in the last decade regarding the room temperature stabilization of skyrmions or their current induced dynamics, the impact of local material inhomogeneities still remains an important issue that impedes to reach…

Skyrmions, novel topologically stable spin vortices, hold promise for next-generation magnetic storage due to their nanoscale domains to enable high information storage density and their low threshold for current-driven motion to enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Dong Liang , John P. DeGrave , Matthew J. Stolt , Yoshinori Tokura , Song Jin

Suppression of the critical temperature in homogeneously disordered superconducting films is a consequence of the disorder-induced enhancement of Coulomb repulsion. We demonstrate that for the majority of thin films studied now this effect…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-28 Daniil S. Antonenko , Mikhail A. Skvortsov

In this work we compute the torque field present in a ferromagnet in contact with a metallic nanowire when a skyrmion is present. If the nanowire is narrow enough the current is carried by a single conduction band. In this regime the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Javier Osca , Bart Sorée

Magnetic skyrmions are whirl-like nano-objects with topological protection. When driven by direct currents (DC), skyrmions move but experience a transverse deflection. This so-called skyrmion Hall effect is often regarded a drawback for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig