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Magnetic skyrmions are swirling magnetic textures that can be efficiently driven with spin-orbit torques with a deflected trajectory. However, pinning slows skyrmions down and alters their trajectory, which prevents a quantitative…

The skyrmion number density, $q\equiv\vec{n}\cdot\left(\partial_x\vec{n}\times\partial_y\vec{n}\right)/(4\pi)$, is one of the key quantities that characterizes the topological properties of a magnetic skyrmion. In this work, we propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Emir Syahreza Fadhilla , M Shoufie Ukhtary , Ardian Nata Atmaja , Bobby Eka Gunara

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin whirls that may not be transformed continuously into topologically trivial states such as ferromagnetic spin alignment. In recent years lattice structures composed of skyrmions have been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-30 Andreas Bauer , Christian Pfleiderer

Magnetic Skyrmions belong to the most interesting spin structures for the development of future information technology as they have been predicted to be topologically protected. To quantify their stability, we use an innovative multiscale…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-19 Andrea De Lucia , Kai Litzius , Benjamin Krüger , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Mathias Kläui

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically wound nanoscale textures of spins whose ambient stability and electrical manipulation in multilayer films have led to an explosion of research activities. While past efforts focused predominantly on…

Magnetic skyrmions are topological objects, which have recently been observed in thin films at room temperature. Sub 100-nm sizes and spin polarised current manipulation make them candidates for high density information storage and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Laurent Ranno , Maria Alfonso Moro

Inertial mass of a skyrmion arising from spin-phonon interaction is computed exactly within a toy model of the magnetoelastic coupling in a ferromagnetic film. The mass scales as the square of the strength of the magnetoelastic coupling, as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 D. Capic , E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

Chiral magnets are an emerging class of topological matter harbouring localized and topologically protected vortex-like magnetic textures called skyrmions, which are currently under intense scrutiny as a new entity for information storage…

When spin polarised electrons flow through a magnetic texture a transfer torque is generated. We examine the effect of this torque on skyrmions and skyrmion bags, skyrmionic structures of arbitrary integer topological degree, in thin…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-07 Charles Kind , David Foster

In magnetism, skyrmions correspond to classical three-dimensional spin textures characterized by a topological invariant that keeps track of the winding of the magnetization in real space, a property that cannot be easily generalized to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-04 O. M. Sotnikov , V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois , F. Mila , M. I. Katsnelson , E. A. Stepanov

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures in ferromagnetic materials that hold great promise for both classical information storage and processing, as well as for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Realizing practical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 N. I. Simchuck , I. S. Burmistrov , S. S. Apostoloff

We theoretically study the interaction of an isolated bimeron skyrmion in quasi-two-dimensional easy-plane magnets with a surrounding spin superfluid associated with spontaneously broken U(1) spin-rotational symmetry, revealing that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Se Kwon Kim

An analytical expression is obtained for the mass of an isolated magnetic skyrmion and its linearized equation of motion. The magnetic skyrmion is viewed as a topologically protected spin-wave soliton in the magnetic ultrathin films…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Yoshishige Suzuki , Soma Miki , Hikaru Nomura , Eiiti Tamura

We show that skyrmions on the surface of a magnetic topological insulator may experience an attractive interaction that leads to the formation of a skyrmion-skyrmion bound state. This is in contrast to the case of skyrmions in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Kunal L. Tiwari , J. Lavoie , T. Pereg-Barnea , W. A. Coish

A magnetic skyrmion is a spin whirl with topological protection and high mobility to electric current. Intrinsic magnetoelastic coupling in chiral magnets permits manipulation of magnetic skyrmions and their lattice using mechanical loads,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Yangfan Hu , Biao Wang

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable nanoscale particle-like objects that were discovered in 2009. Since that time, intense research interest has led to the identification of numerous compounds that support skyrmions over a range of…

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

Recently proposed spintronic devices use magnetic skyrmions as bits of information. The reliable detection of those chiral magnetic objects is an indispensable requirement. Yet, the high mobility of magnetic skyrmions leads to their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Tim Matthies , Alexander F. Schäffer , Thore Posske , Roland Wiesendanger , Elena Y. Vedmedenko

Topological magnetic solitons, such as skyrmions, exhibit intriguing particle-like properties that make them attractive for fundamental research and practical applications. While many magnetic systems can host skyrmions as statically stable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-22 Vladyslav M. Kuchkin , Bruno Barton-Singer , Pavel F. Bessarab , Nikolai S. Kiselev

Chiral magnets can host topological particles known as skyrmions, which carry an exactly quantised topological charge $Q=-1$. In the presence of an oscillating magnetic field ${\bf B}_1(t)$, a single skyrmion embedded in a ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Nina del Ser , Vivek Lohani

A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic texture, could be an ideal element for ultra-dense magnetic memories. Here, we review recent progress in the field of skyrmionics, which is concerned with studies of tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Alexey A. Kovalev , Shane Sandhoefner