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The magnetic properties of ferromagnetic thin films down to the nanoscale are ruled by the exchange stiffness, anisotropies and the effects of magnetic fields. As surfaces break inversion symmetry, an additional effective chiral exchange is…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are being explored as a novel multiferroic platform. One of the most studied magnetoelectric multiferroic 2D materials are antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFM) CrI$_3$ bilayers. Neglecting magnetism, those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Shiva P. Poudel , Juan M. Marmolejo-Tejada , Joseph E. Roll , Martín A. Mosquera , Salvador Barraza-Lopez

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

Topological quasiparticles, such as merons and bimerons, are characterized by non-trivial textures that exhibit remarkably robust transport against deformation, offering significant potential for information processing. While these…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-10 Huaijin Ma , Te Liu , Jiachen Sheng , Kaiyan Cao , Jinpeng Yang , Jian Wang

Noncollinear spin textures in ferromagnetic ultrathin films are currently the subject of renewed interest since the discovery of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). This antisymmetric exchange interaction selects a…

Magnetic interactions underpin a plethora of magnetic states of matter, hence playing a central role both in fundamental physics and for future spintronic and quantum computation devices. The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, being chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Sascha Brinker , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture stabilized by the protection due to their topology. In most cases they are induced by chiral interactions between atomic spins existing in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-21 Albert Fert , Nicolas Reyren , Vincent Cros

Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasiparticles potentially useful for memory and computing devices. Antiferromagnetic (AF) skyrmions present no transverse deflection, making them suitable candidates for data storage applications. After…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-27 Inés Corte , Federico Holik , Lorena Rebón , Flavia A. Gómez Albarracín

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures holding great potential as nanoscale information carriers. Recently, skyrmions have been predicted in antiferromagnets, with key advantages in terms of stability, size, and dynamical…

Magnetic chiral skyrmions are vortex like spin structures that appear as stable or meta-stable states in magnetic materials due to the interplay between the symmetric and antisymmetric exchange interactions, applied magnetic field and/or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-01 Changhoon Heo , Nikolai S. Kiselev , Ashis Kumar Nandy , Stefan Blügel , Theo Rasing

Magnetic skyrmions, renowned for their fascinating electromagnetic properties, hold potential for next-generation topological spintronic devices. Recent advancements have unveiled a rich tapestry of 3D topological magnetism. Nevertheless,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Yaodong Wu , Jialiang Jiang , Weiwei Wang , Lingyao Kong , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du , Jin Tang

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

We investigate topological Hall effects in a metallic antiferromagnetic (AFM) thin film and/or at the interface of an AFM insulator-normal metal bilayer with a single skyrmion in the diffusive regime. To determine the spin and charge Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Amir N. Zarezad , Józef Barnaś , Anna Dyrdał , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Altermagnets are a recently discovered class of magnetic materials that combine a collinear, zero-magnetization spin structure, characteristic of antiferromagnets, with spin-split electronic bands, a hallmark of ferromagnets. This unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

A meron is a controversial topological excitation because it carries just one half of the topological charge unit. It is believed that it is tightly binded to another meron and cannot be observed by isolating it. We present a counter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-04-15 Motohiko Ezawa

High tunability of two dimensional magnetic materials (by strain, gating, heterostructuring or otherwise) provides unique conditions for studying versatile magnetic properties and controlling emergent magnetic phases. Expanding the scope of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Raí M. Menezes , Clécio C. de Souza Silva , Milorad V. Milošević

In this paper we discuss bimeron pseudo spin textures for double layer quantum hall systems with filling factor $\nu =1$. Bimerons are excitations corresponding to bound pairs of merons and anti-merons. Bimeron solutions have already been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sankalpa Ghosh , R. Rajaraman

Owing to the experimental discovery of magnetic skyrmions stabilized by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and/or dipolar interactions in thin films, there is a recent upsurge of interest in magnetic skyrmions with antiferromagnetic spins in order…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-04 K. Chen , D. Lott , A. Philippi-Kobs , M. Weigand , C. Luo , F. Radu

Recently, magnetic skyrmion has emerged as an active topic of fundamental study and applications in magnetic materials research. Magnetic skyrmions are vortex-like spin excitations with topological protection and therefore are more robust…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-23 S. Joseph Poon , Chung Ting Ma

Magnetic skyrmions are intriguing topological spin textures that have attracted great attention due to their potential for future spintronic devices. Skyrmions have so far been explored in different magnetic materials, such as ferromagnets,…