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We examine directional locking effects in an assembly of disks driven through a square array of obstacles as the angle of drive rotates from zero to ninety degrees. For increasing disk densities, the system exhibits a series of different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-sized topologically non-trivial spin textures that can be moved by external stimuli such as spin currents and internal stimuli such as spatial gradients of a material parameter. Since the total energy of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Ismael Ribeiro de Assis , Ingrid Mertig , Börge Göbel

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

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

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…

The interplay between dimensionality and topology manifests in magnetism via both exotic texture morphology and novel dynamics. A free magnetic skyrmion exhibits the skyrmion Hall effect under electric currents. Once it is confined in…

Magnetic skyrmion is a promising building block for developing information storage and computing devices. It can be stabilized in a ferromagnetic thin film with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). The moving ferromagnetic skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Qiming Shao , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmionium is a novel magnetization configuration with zero skyrmion number, which is composed by two skyrmions with opposite skyrmion number. Here, we study the dynamics of skyrmionium under an anisotropy gradient. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Chengkun Song , Chendong Jin , Yunxu Ma , Jinshuai Wang , Haiyan Xia , Jianbo Wang , Qingfang Liu

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

We numerically examine a two-dimensional system of repulsively interacting particles with dynamics that are governed by both a damping term and a Magnus term. The magnitude of the Magnus term has one value for half of the particles and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

Skyrmions dynamics in the approximation of point-particle skyrmions is considered in the multiferroic insulators, where the spiral magnetic structure is accompanied by finite electric dipole moment. The skyrmion motion is studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Pavel A. Andreev , Mariya Iv. Trukhanova

When magnetic skyrmions move under spin orbit torque in magnetic nanowires, they experience a skyrmion Hall effect, which pushes them towards the nanowire edge where they risk being annihilated; this puts an upper limit on how fast they can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Xiangjun Xing , Johan Åkerman , Yan Zhou

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

We examine the dynamics, Hall angle, and pinning for N{\'e}el skyrmions in an altermagnet. Using an atomistic model, we show that skyrmion velocity and Hall angle dependence is anisotropic with respect to the direction of the drive, due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. J. O. Reichhardt , A. Saxena , C. Reichhardt

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

During the last years, topologically protected collective modes of the magnetization have called much attention. Among these, skyrmions and merons have been the object of intense study. In particular, topological skyrmions are objects with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 A. S. Araújo , R. J. C. Lopes , V. L. Carvalho-Santos , A. R. Pereira , R. L. Silva , R. C. Silva , D. Altbir

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.…

Single magnetic skyrmion dynamics in chiral magnets with a spatially inhomogeneous Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is considered. Based on the relation between DMI coupling and skyrmion helicity, it is argued that the latter must be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Sebastián A. Díaz , Roberto E. Troncoso

We numerically examine the dynamics of individually dragged skyrmions interacting simultaneously with an array of other skyrmions and quenched disorder. For drives just above depinning, we observe a broad band noise signal with a $1/f$…

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

We model collective disk flow though a square array of obstacles as the flow direction is changed relative to the symmetry directions of the array. At lower disk densities there is no clogging for any driving direction, but as the disk…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-22 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt