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Skyrmions, originally from condensed matter physics, have been widely explored in various physical systems, including soft matter. A crucial challenge in manipulating topological solitary waves like skyrmions is controlling their flow on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-23 Jiahao Chen , Wentao Tang , Xingzhou Tang , Yang Ding , Jie Ni , Yuxi Chen , Bingxiang Li , Rui Zhang , Juan de Pablo , Yanqing Lu

With the recent proposition of skyrmion utilization in racetrack memories at room temperature, skyrmionics has become a very attractive field. However, for the stability of skyrmions, it is essential to incorporate the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 R. P. Loreto , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira , X. Zhang , Y. Zhou , M. Ezawa , C. I. L. Araujo

The interesting physics and potential memory technologies resulting from topologically protected spin textures such as skyrmions, has prompted efforts to discover new material systems that can host these kind of magnetic structures. Here we…

Devising magnetic nanostructures with spatially heterogeneous Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is a promising pathway towards advanced confinement and control of magnetic skyrmions in potential devices. Here we discuss theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Raí M. Menezes , Jeroen Mulkers , Clécio C. de Souza Silva , Milorad V. Milošević

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

Magnetic skyrmions and multiferroics are the most interesting objects in nanostructure science that have great potential in future spin-electronic technology. The study of the multiferroic skyrmions has attracted much interest in recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Zidong Wang , Malcolm J. Grimson

Magnetic skyrmion, vortex-like swirling topologically stable spin configurations, is appealing as information carrier for future nanoelectronics, owing to the stability, small size and extremely low driving current density. One of the most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Wang Kang , Yangqi Huang , Chentian Zheng , Weifeng Lv , Na Lei , Youguang Zhang , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Weisheng Zhao

Skyrmions--topologically protected nanoscale spin textures with vortex-like configurations--hold transformative potential for ultra-dense data storage, spintronics and quantum computing. However, their practical utility is challenged by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Lei Liu , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Two-dimensional (2D) multiferroic materials with coexisting ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism have garnered substantial attention for their intriguing physical properties and diverse promising applications in spintronics. For example,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-27 Zuxin Fu , Kuanrong Hao , Min Guo , Jingjing He , Xiaohong Yan , Yangbo Zhou , Lei Shen , Jiaren Yuan

Magnetic skyrmions are localized magnetic structures that retain their shape and stability over time, thanks to their topological nature. Recent theoretical and experimental progress has laid the groundwork for understanding magnetic…

The competition between external drives and interparticle interactions are important for the static and dynamic properties of topological quasiparticles in confined geometries. Here, we study the dynamics of particlelike skyrmions under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Xiaoxi Liu

Magnetic skyrmion technology is promising for the next-generation spintronics-based memory and neuromorphic computing due to their small size, non-volatility and low depinning current density. However, the Magnus force originating from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Debasis Das , Yunuo Cen , Jianze Wang , Xuanyao Fong

Synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) skyrmions are nanoscale composite textures that exhibit high-speed, Hall-free current-driven motion and recently demonstrated self-propulsion. These remarkable properties rely on the stability of the SAF…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Rai M. Menezes , Clecio C. de Souza Silva

We identify a mechanism to convert skyrmions and antiskyrmions into their antiferromagnetic (AFM) counterparts via interfacial engineering. The key idea is to combine properties of an antiferromagnet and a spin-orbit (SO) coupled metal.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Arnob Mukherjee , Deepak S. Kathyat , Sanjeev Kumar

Recent developments in the magnetization dynamics in spin textures, particularly skyrmions, offer promising new directions for magnetic storage technologies and spintronics. Skyrmions, characterized by their topological protection and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-21 Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Seung-Cheol Lee

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin structure, and their existence in ferromagnetically coupled multilayers has been reported with disordered arrangement. In these multilayers, the heavy metal spacing layers provide an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-30 Yong Li , Qiyuan Feng , Sihua Li , Ke Huang , Weiliang Gan , Haibiao Zhou , Xiangjun Jin , Xiao Renshaw Wang , Fusheng Ma , Qingyou Lu , Wen Siang Lew

The helicity-orbital coupling is an intriguing feature of magnetic skyrmions in frustrated magnets. Here, we explore the skyrmion dynamics in a frustrated magnet based on the $J_{1}$-$J_{2}$-$J_{3}$ classical Heisenberg model explicitly by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-27 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Yan Zhou , Xiaoxi Liu , Han Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa

Magnetic skyrmions in thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy are promising candidates for magnetic memory and logic devices, making the development of ways to transport skyrmions efficiently and precisely of significant interest.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Jintao Shuai , Luis Lopez-Diaz , John E. Cunningham , Thomas A. Moore

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures known for their robustness against perturbations. Their topological stability makes them robust information carriers, ideal for tackling a key challenge in quantum computing:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Haowen Yang , Gerald Bissell , Han Zhong , Peter Van Kirk , Tiger Cao , Pengcheng Lu , Yingying Wu

Skyrmions are topological structures defined by a winding vector configuration that yields a quantized topological charge. In magnetic materials, skyrmions manifest as stable, mobile spin textures, positioning them at the forefront of…