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Magnetic skyrmions are quasiparticles with non-trivial topology, envisioned to play a key role in next-generation data technology while simultaneously attracting fundamental research interest due to their emerging topological charge. In…

The dynamical properties of skyrmions can be exploited to build devices with new functionalities. Here, we first investigate a skyrmion-based ring-shaped device by means of micromagnetic simulations and Thiele equation. We subsequently show…

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

Skyrmion is a topologically protected spin texture excited in magnetic thin films. The radii of skyrmions are typically 10-100 nm. Because of the size, the skyrmion is expected to be a candidate for memory and novel-device usages. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 E. Tamura , C. Liu , S. Miki , J. Cho , M. Goto , H. Nomura , R. Nakatani , Y. Suzuki

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…

In an effort to understand skyrmion behavior on a coarse-grained level, skyrmions are often described as 2D quasi particles evolving according to the Thiele equation. Interaction potentials are the key missing parameters for predictive…

The dynamics of magnetic skyrmion driven by spin-polarized current is theoretically studied in the chiral ferromagnetic film with spatially modulated Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Three cases including linear, sinusoidal, and periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Liping Zhou , Ren Qin , Ya-qing Zheng , Yong Wang

We deal with magnetic structures that attain integer and half-integer skyrmion numbers. We model and solve the problem analytically, and show how the solutions appear in materials that engender distinct, very specific physical properties,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 D. Bazeia , J. G. G. S. Ramos , E. I. B. Rodrigues

Magnetic skyrmions are whirls in the magnetization whose topological winding number promises stability against thermal fluctuations and defects. They can only decay via singular spin configurations. We analyze the corresponding energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-24 Benjamin Heil , Achim Rosch , Jan Masell

Skyrmions are topological solitons that emerge in many physical contexts. In magnetism, they appear as textures of the spin-density field stabilized by different competing interactions and characterized by a topological charge that counts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Hector Ochoa , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Chiral magnetic skyrmions are topological solitons, of significant physical interest, arising in ferromagnets described by a micromagnetic energy including a chiral (Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya) interaction term. We show that for small chiral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Stephen Gustafson , Li Wang

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected quasiparticles and have drawn much attention because of their potential applications in next-generation spintronics devices. Their inherent topological stability, nanoscale size, and efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Hind Prakash , Himanshu Fulara

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin textures that exhibit topological stability, which, along with novel thermal and electrical transport properties, make them the ideal candidates for a variety of novel technological applications.…

Skyrmions have been proposed as new information carriers in racetrack memory devices. To realise such devices, a small size; high speed of propagation; and minimal skyrmion Hall angle are required. Synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Christopher E. A. Barker , Charles Parton-Barr , Christopher H. Marrows , Olga Kazakova , Craig Barton

Recent years have witnessed an enormous rise in research interest in magnetic skyrmions owing to their capability to improve over contemporary spintronic devices. An overview of the various magnetic interactions responsible for the…

We theoretically study equilibrium and dynamic properties of nanosized magnetic skyrmions in thin magnetic films with broken inversion symmetry, where electric field couples to magnetization via spin-orbit coupling. Based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Pramey Upadhyaya , Guoqiang Yu , Pedram Khalili Amiri , Kang L. Wang

We predict a novel twisted skyrmion structure at the boundary of two antiferromagnetically coupled magnetic domains with antiparallel magnetization directions. Through this intermediate state, skyrmions with opposite polarities can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Huanhuan Yang , C. Wang , Xiaofan Wang , X. S. Wang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Magnetic skyrmions, which are topological particle-like excitations in ferromagnets, have attracted a lot of attention recently. Skyrmionics is an attempt to use magnetic skyrmions as information carriers in next generation spintronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions are localized nanometric spin textures with quantized winding numbers as the topological invariant. Rapidly increasing attention has been paid to the investigations of skyrmions since their experimental discovery in 2009,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-31 Ping Huang , Marco Cantoni , Alex Kruchkov , Rajeswari Jayaraman , Arnaud Magrez , Fabrizio Carbone , Henrik M. Ronnow

Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasiparticles with great potential for applications in future information storage and processing devices because of their nanoscale size, high stability, and large velocity. Recently, the high-frequency…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Xing Chen , Wang Kang , Daoqian Zhu , Na Lei , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Youguang Zhang , Weisheng Zhao