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The two-dimensional Heisenberg exchange model with out-of-plane anisotropy and a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is employed to investigate the lifetime and stability of antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmions as a function of temperature and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 P. F. Bessarab , D. Yudin , D. R. Gulevich , P. Wadley , M. Titov , Oleg A. Tretiakov

Magnetic skyrmions and bubbles, observed in ferromagnetic thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, are topological solitons which differ by their characteristic size and the balance in the energies at the origin of their…

We present a robust and accurate numerical method for the anisotropic diffusion equation in curvilinear coordinates. This study extends the recent work [Muir et al., Computer Physics Communications, 2025] for solving the anisotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Dean Muir , Kenneth Duru , Stuart Hudson , Matthew Hole

We investigate the dependence of the N\'eel skyrmion size and stability on perpendicular magnetic field in ultrathin circular magnetic dots with out-of-plane anisotropy and interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange interaction. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 F. Tejo , A. Riveros , J. Escrig , K. Y. Guslienko , O. Chubykalo-Fesenko

A strategy to drive skyrmion motion by a combination of an anisotropy gradient and spin Hall effect has recently been demonstrated. Here, we study the fundamental properties of this type of motion by combining micromagnetic simulations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Riccardo Tomasello , Stavros Komineas , Giulio Siracusano , Mario Carpentieri , Giovanni Finocchio

The magnetic skyrmion is a nanoscale topological object characterized by the winding of the magnetic moments, appearing in magnetic materials with broken inversion symmetry. Because of its low current threshold for driving, the skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Ryo Iguchi , Shinya Kasai , Kazushige Koshikawa , Norimichi Chinone , Shinsuke Suzuki , Ken-ichi Uchida

Non-flat energy landscapes leading to localized pinning of skyrmions pose an inherent and unavoidable challenge for studies of fundamental 2D spin structure dynamics as well as applications. Accounting for pinning is a key requirement for…

Skyrmions are topologically stable quasiparticles that have been predicted and demonstrated in quantum fields, solid-state physics, and magnetic materials, but only recently observed in electromagnetic fields, triggering fast expanding…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-05 Yijie Shen , Qiang Zhang , Peng Shi , Luping Du , Xiaocong Yuan , Anatoly V. Zayats

The transport of high-energy particles in the presence of small-scale, turbulent magnetic fields is a long-standing issue in astrophysics. Analytical theories on transport perpendicular to the large-scale magnetic field disagree with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-03 Marco Kuhlen , Vo Hong Minh Phan , Philipp Mertsch

Anisotropic spherically symmetric solutions within the framework of the Brans-Dicke theory are uncovered through a unique gravitational decoupling approach involving a minimal geometric transformation. This transformation effectively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Kazuharu Bamba , M. Z. Bhatti , Z. Yousaf , Z. Shoukat

Thin-film sub-5 nm magnetic skyrmions constitute an ultimate scaling alternative for future digital data storage. Skyrmions are robust non-collinear spin-textures that can be moved and manipulated by small electrical currents. We show here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 Dax M. Crum , Mohammed Bouhassoune , Juba Bouaziz , Benedikt Schweflinghaus , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis

The isotropic Heisenberg chain represents a particular case of an integrable many-body system exhibiting superdiffusive spin transport at finite temperatures. Here, we show that this model has distinct properties also at finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-09 S. Nandy , Z. Lenarčič , E. Ilievski , M. Mierzejewski , J. Herbrych , P. Prelovšek

We theoretically and experimentally study the stability of the unconventional fractional antiferromagnetic skyrmion lattice (AF-SkL) in Mn$_2$S$_4$ spinel under magnetic fields applied along the $[$1-10$]$ crystal direction. By performing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-22 H. D. Rosales , F. A. Gómez Albarracín , K. Guratinder , V. Tsurkan , L. Prodan , E. Ressouche , O. Zaharko

Recent studies demonstrated the violation of reciprocity in optical processes in low-symmetry magnetic crystals. In these crystals the speed of light can be different for counter-propagating beams. Correspondingly, they can show strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-15 David Szaller , Sandor Bordacs , Istvan Kezsmarki

We revisit the problem of diffusion in a driven system consisting of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric periodic potential and subjected to a symmetric time-periodic force. We reveal parameter domains in which diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 I. G. Marchenko , A. Zhiglo , V. Aksenova , V. Tkachenko , I. I. Marchenko , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

Cosmic ray particles are more rapidly accelerated in oblique shocks, with the magnetic field inclined with respect to the shock normal direction, than in parallel shocks, as a result of mirror reflection at the shock surface and slower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-23 Y. S. Honda , M. Honda

We study inter-skyrmion interactions and stable spin configurations in a 2D chiral magnet with in-plane anisotropies of a tilted magnetic field and the magneto-crystalline anisotropy on a (011) thin film. We find that in both cases a small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Mai Kameda , Rio Koyama , Takuro Nakajima , Yuki Kawaguchi

In this letter we demonstrate universal symmetry breaking by means of magnetically induced circular dichroism. Magnetic field induces forbidden at zero field atomic transitions between $\Delta F = \pm2$ hyperfine levels. In a particular…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-31 A. Tonoyan , A. Sargsyan , E. Klinger , G. Hakhumyan , C. Leroy , M. Auzinsh , A. Papoyan , D. Sarkisyan

We develop the complete theory for the collective plasmon modes of an interacting electron system in the presence of explicit mass (or velocity) anisotropy in the corresponding non-interacting situation, with the effective Fermi velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Seongjin Ahn , S. Das Sarma

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like objects with topologically-protected stability which can be set into motion with an applied current. Using a particle-based model we simulate current-driven magnetic skyrmions interacting with random…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-09 Sebastian A. Diaz , C. J. O. Reichhardt , Daniel P. Arovas , Avadh Saxena , C. Reichhardt