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We consider a magnetic skyrmion crystal formed at the surface of a topological insulator. Incorporating the exchange interaction between the helical Dirac surface states and the periodic N\'eel or Bloch skyrmion texture, we obtain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Stefan Divic , Henry Ling , T. Pereg-Barnea , Arun Paramekanti

We propose that topological spin currents flowing in topologically non-trivial magnetic textures, such as magnetic skyrmions and vortices, produce an intrinsic non-adiabatic torque of the form ${\bf T}_t\sim [(\partial_x{\bf…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Collins Ashu Akosa , Papa Birame Ndiaye , Aurélien Manchon

Topologically stable matters can have a long lifetime, even if thermodynamically costly, when the thermal agitation is sufficiently low. A magnetic skyrmion lattice (SkL) represents a unique form of long-range magnetic order that is…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-08 H. Oike , A. Kikkawa , N. Kanazawa , Y. Taguchi , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura , F. Kagawa

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures which have attracted intense research for their fundamentally novel physics and potential applications as spintronic information carriers. The stability which makes them so potentially useful is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-07 William S. Parker , Jacques A. Reddinger , Benjamin J. McMorran

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like textures in the magnetization, characterized by a topological winding number. Nanometer-scale skyrmions have been observed at room temperature in magnetic multilayer structures. The combination of small…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-14 Jan Müller

We demonstrate numerically on large spin lattices that one can write skyrmions in a thin magnetic film with a magnetic dipole of a few tens of nanometer in size. Nucleation of non-chiral skyrmions as well as chiral skyrmions formed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Dmitry A. Garanin , Daniel Capic , Senfu Zhang , Xixiang Zhang , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Stable three-dimensional topological skyrmion structures in frustrated magnets are investigated. The texture exhibits a helicoid pattern along the vertical direction, described by a position-dependent helicity, which interpolates between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Carlos Saji , Eduardo Saavedra , Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos , Alvaro S. Nunez , Roberto E. Troncoso

Based on the observation that the skyrmion in Skyrme theory can be viewed as a dressed monopole, we show that the skyrmions have two independent topology, the baryon topology $\pi_3(S^3)$ and the monopole topology $\pi_2(S^2)$. With this we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-22 Y. M. Cho , Kyoungtae Kimm , J. H. Yoon , Pengming Zhang

Recent developments in the magnetization dynamics in spin textures, particularly skyrmions, offer promising new directions for magnetic storage technologies and spintronics. Skyrmions, characterized by their topological protection and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-21 Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Seung-Cheol Lee

Competing magnetic interactions may stabilize smooth magnetization textures that can be characterized by a topological winding number. Such textures, which are spatially localized within a two-dimensional plane, are commonly known as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Alexander P. Petrović , Christina Psaroudaki , Peter Fischer , Markus Garst , Christos Panagopoulos

We theoretically investigate field-induced switching of magnetic topology in a nanodisk-shaped sample of noncentrosymmetric dipolar magnet in which the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction that stabilizes an antiskyrmion with $N_{\rm sk}$=+1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Tatsuki Muto , Masahito Mochizuki

The magnetic skyrmion structure can be formed in the chiral magnets (CMs) with strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. In this work, we propose a way of artificially tailoring the topological details of the skyrmion such as its radial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 Yin-Yan Zhang , Rui Zhu

A spin texture called skyrmion has been recently observed in certain chiral magnets without inversion symmetry. The observed skyrmions are extended objects with typical linear sizes of 10 nm to 100 nm that contain $10^3$ to $10^5$ spins and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-24 Shi-Zeng Lin , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

Target skyrmions (TSks) are topological spin textures where the out-of-plane component of the magnetization twists an integer number of $m$-$\pi$ rotations. Based on a magnetic multilayer stack in the form of $n\times$[CoFeB/MgO/Ta],…

The discovery of magnetic skyrmion bubbles in centrosymmetric magnets has been receiving increasing interest from the research community, due to the fascinating physics of topological spin textures and its possible applications to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Zhipeng Hou , Qiang Zhang , Guizhou Xu , Senfu Zhang , Chen Gong , Bei Ding , Hang Li , Feng Xu , Yuan Yao , Enke Liu , Guangheng Wu , Xi-xiang Zhang , Wenhong Wang

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetization textures that are characterized by the homotopy group of two dimensional spheres. Despite years of intensive research on skyrmions, the fundamental problem of the inertia of a skyrmion in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 D. Wang , Hans-Benjamin Braun , Yan Zhou

In the continuum a skyrmion is a topological nontrivial map between Riemannian manifolds, and a stationary point of a particular energy functional. This paper describes lattice analogues of the aforementioned skyrmions, namely a natural way…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-23 E. G. Charalampidis , T. A. Ioannidou , P. G. Kevrekidis

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

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

Frustrated topological spin textures have unique properties that may enable novel spintronic applications, such as helicity-based information storage and computing. Here, we report the statics and current-induced dynamics of two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Hung T. Diep , Guoping Zhao , Jinbo Yang , Yan Zhou , Motohiko Ezawa , Xiaoxi Liu