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In this work we show that under specific anomalous diffusion conditions, chemical systems can produce well-ordered self-similar concentration patterns through a diffusion-driven instability. We also find spiral patterns and patterns with…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-22 D. Hernández , E. C. Herrera-Hernández , M. Núñez-López , H. Hernández-Coronado

The spatial diffusion of energetic particles in a magnetic field composed of a large-scale background and a small-scale turbulent component should be expected to be anisotropic. While such anisotropic diffusion has been known for quite a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Julien Dörner , Jonas Hellrung , Julia Becker Tjus , Horst Fichtner

We study the impact of an exchange-reducing defect on a skyrmion for a thin film of finite thickness. Attraction of the skyrmion to a defect is demonstrated in a lattice model by computing the micromagnetic energy accounting for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Amel Derras-Chouk , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

We investigate skyrmion formation in both a single crystalline bulk and epitaxial thin films of MnSi by measurements of planar Hall effect. A prominent stepwise field profile of planar Hall effect is observed in the well-established…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-28 T. Yokouchi , N. Kanazawa , A. Tsukazaki , Y. Kozuka , A. Kikkawa , Y. Taguchi , M. Kawasaki , M. Ichikawa , F. Kagawa , Y. Tokura

We study the spin-transfer drag mediated by the Brownian motion of skyrmions. The essential idea is illustrated in a two-terminal geometry, in which a thin film of a magnetic insulator is placed in between two metallic reservoirs. An…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Hector Ochoa , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Magnetic skyrmions are quasiparticle configurations in a magnetic film that can act as information carrying bits for ultrasmall, all-electronic nonvolatile memory. The skyrmions can be nucleated and driven by spin-orbit torque from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Hamed Vakili , Yunkun Xie , Avik W. Ghosh

Recent developments have led to an explosion of activity on skyrmions in three-dimensional (3D) chiral magnets. Experiments have directly probed these topological spin textures, revealed their nontrivial properties, and led to suggestions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-11 Sumilan Banerjee , James Rowland , Onur Erten , Mohit Randeria

It is predicted magnetic skyrmions can be controllably moved on surfaces using a focused laser beam. Here an absorbed power of the order 1 mW, focused to a spot-size of the order 10 $\mu$m, results in a local temperature increase of around…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Serban Lepadatu

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

The investigation of the diffusive transport of charged particles in a turbulent magnetic field remains a subject of considerable interest. Research has most frequently concentrated on determining the diffusion coefficient in the presence…

We study the dynamics of skyrmions under spin-transfer torque in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya materials with easy-axis anisotropy. In particular, we study the motion of a topological skyrmion with skyrmion number $Q=1$ and a non-topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

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

Topological defects play a key role in a variety of physical systems, ranging from high-energy to solid state physics. They yield fascinating emergent phenomena and serve as a bridge between the microspic and macroscopic world. A skyrmion…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-26 S. Tsesses , E. Ostrovsky , K. Cohen , B. Gjonaj , N. Lindner , G. Bartal

In a $\beta$-Mn-type chiral magnet Co$_9$Zn$_9$Mn$_2$, we demonstrate that the magnetic field-driven collapse of a room temperature metastable topological skyrmion lattice passes through a regime described by a partial topological charge…

Skyrmions are emerging topological spin structures that are potentially revolutionary for future data storage and spintronics applications. The existence and stability of skyrmions in magnetic materials is usually associated to the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 R. L. Novak , F. Garcia , E. R. P. Novais , J. P. Sinnecker , A. P. Guimarães

We calculate the diffusion coefficients of charged cosmic rays (CR) propagating in regular and turbulent magnetic fields. If the magnetic field is dominated by an isotropic turbulent component, we find that CRs reside too long in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-24 G. Giacinti , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz

The macroscopic behaviour of cosmic rays in turbulent magnetic fields is discussed. An implementation of anisotropic diffusion of cosmic rays with respect to the magnetic field in a non-conservative, high-order, finite-difference…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. P. Snodin , Axel Brandenburg , A. J. Mee , Anvar Shukurov

We prove the existence of diffusing solutions in the motion of a charged particle in the presence of an ABC magnetic field. The equations of motion are modeled by a 3DOF Hamiltonian system depending on two parameters. For small values of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Alejandro Luque , Daniel Peralta-Salas

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically-distinct swirls of magnetic moments which display particle-like behaviour, including the ability to undergo thermally-driven diffusion. In this paper we study the thermally activated motion of arrays of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Yifan Zhou , Rhodri Mansell , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Sebastiaan van Dijken

The unbiased thermal diffusion of an overdamped Brownian particle in a square lattice potential is considered in the presence of an externally applied ac driving. The resulting diffusion matrix exhibits two orthogonal eigenvectors with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-22 David Speer , Ralf Eichhorn , Peter Reimann