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Skyrmions in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction are expected to exist for essentially the same reasons as in DM ferromagnets (FM). It is shown that skyrmions in antiferromagnets with the DM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-10 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

Magnetic skyrmions are promising spin textures for building next-generation magnetic memories and spintronic devices. Nevertheless, one of the major challenges in realizing skyrmion-based devices is the stabilization of ordered arrays of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-02 E. Iroulart , H. D. Rosales

The antiferromagnet (AFM) / ferromagnet (FM) interfaces are of central importance in recently developed pure electric or ultrafast control of FM spins, where the underlying mechanisms remain unresolved. Here we report the direct observation…

We present a theoretical mapping to show that a ferromagnet with gain (loss) is equivalent to an antiferromagnet with an equal amount of loss (gain). Our finding indicates a novel first-order ferromagnet-antiferromagnet phase transition by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Huanhuan Yang , C. Wang , Tianlin Yu , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

We study the magnetic dynamics of magnetoelectric antiferromagnetic thin films, where an unconventional boundary ferromagnetism coexists with the bulk N\'{e}el phase below the N\'{e}el temperature. The spin exchange between the two order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ricardo Zarzuela , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Topologically nontrivial magnetic textures such as skyrmions offer promising opportunities for spintronic applications. In recent years, it has been shown that the magnetic properties of layered materials can be affected by depositing…

Magnetic skyrmion is a topologically stable particle-like swirling spin texture potentially suitable for high-density information bit, which was first observed in noncentrosymmetric magnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Recently,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-01 N. D. Khanh , T. Nakajima , S. Hayami , S. Gao , Y. Yamasaki , H. Sagayama , H. Nakao , R. Takagi , Y. Motome , Y. Tokura , T. Arima , S. Seki

The long fascination antiferromagnetic materials have exerted on the scientific community over about a century has been entirely renewed recently with the discovery of several unexpected phenomena including various classes of anomalous spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 V. Bonbien , Fengjun Zhuo , A. Salimath , O. Ly , A. Abbout , A. Manchon

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmions, which are resistant to both the skyrmion Hall effect and external magnetic perturbations, are expected to be promising candidates for next-generation spintronics devices. Despite being observed in bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Weiyi Pan , Zhiming Xu

Antiferromagnetic materials present us with rich and exciting physics, which we can exploit to open new avenues in spintronic device applications. We explore perpendicularly magnetized exchange biased systems of Pt/Co/IrMn and Pt/Co/FeMn,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Risalat A. Khan , Hans T. Nembach , Mannan Ali , Justin M. Shaw , Christopher H. Marrows , Thomas A. Moore

Magnetic skyrmions have garnered attention for their potential roles in spintronic applications, such as information carriers in computation, data storage, and nano-oscillators due to their small size, topological stability, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Rajgowrav Cheenikundil , Zhiwei Lu , Manuel Pereiro , Anna Delin , Danny Thonig

We show a topological spin texture called "bimeronium" in magnets with in-plane magnetization. It is a topological counterpart of skyrmionium in perpendicularly magnetized magnets and can be seen as a combination of two bimerons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Motohiko Ezawa , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Hung T. Diep , Guoping Zhao , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

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 topologically protected spin textures with potential applications in memory and logic devices. Skyrmions have been commonly observed in systems with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction due to broken inversion symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Jyotirish Das , Muhammad Akram , Onur Erten

Noncollinear antiferromagnets offer much promise for antiferromagnetic spintronics and neuromorphic applications with a plethora of functional properties surpassing many competing magnetic systems. Films grown on mismatched substrates may…

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

The generation of topologically non-trivial magnetic configurations has been a pivotal topic in both basic and applied nanomagnetism research. Localized non-coplanar magnetic defects such as skyrmions or merons were found to interact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Reiner Brüning , Levente Rózsa , Roberto Lo Conte , André Kubetzka , Roland Wiesendanger , Kirsten von Bergmann

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like topological excitations in ferromagnets, which have the topological number $Q=\pm 1$, and hence show the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE) due to the Magnus force effect originating from the topology. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-25 Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Motohiko Ezawa

The exchange coupling underlies ferroic magnetic coupling and is thus the key element that governs statics and dynamics of magnetic systems. This fundamental interaction comes in two flavors - symmetric and antisymmetric coupling. While…

Topological magnetic textures, characterized by integer topological charge $S$, are potential candidates in future magnetic logic and memory devices, due to their smaller size and expected low threshold current density for their motion. An…