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Magnetic skyrmion bags are composite topological spin textures with arbitrary topological charges. Here, we computationally study the transient rotational motion of skyrmion bags, which is characterized by a global rotation of the inner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Lan Bo , Rongzhi Zhao , Xichao Zhang , Masahito Mochizuki , Xuefeng Zhang

The motion of a spin excitation across topologically non-trivial magnetic order exhibits a deflection that is analogous to the effect of the Lorentz force on an electrically charged particle in an orbital magnetic field. We used polarized…

We propose a topological characterization of Hamiltonians describing classical waves. Applying it to the magnetostatic surface spin waves that are important in spintronics applications, we settle the speculation over their topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Kei Yamamoto , Guo Chuan Thiang , Philipp Pirro , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Karin Everschor-Sitte , Eiji Saitoh

Skyrmions are topologically protected entities in magnetic materials which have the potential to be used in spintronics for information storage and processing. However, Skyrmions in ferromagnets have some intrinsic difficulties which must…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Joseph Barker , Oleg A. Tretiakov

We theoretically study the skyrmion-number dependence of spin-transfer torque acting on magnetic bubbles. The skymrion number of magnetic bubbles can take any integer value depending on the magnetic profile on its circumference and the size…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Yuta Yamane , Jairo Sinova

Magnetic skyrmion, a swirling spin texture, in chiral magnets is characterized by (i) nano-scale size ($\sim$1nm -- 100nm), (ii) topological stability, and (iii) gyro-dynamics. These features are shown to be advantageous for (a)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 W. Koshibae , Y. Kaneko , J. Iwasaki , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura , N. Nagaosa

Topological spin structures such as magnetic skyrmions are of fundamental interest and promising for various types of applications in spintronics. Skyrmions have been predicted to emerge also in antiferromagnetic materials where they…

Taking all the magnon modes into account, we derive the skyrmion dynamics in response to a weak external drive. A skyrmion has rotational symmetry and the magnon modes can be characterized by an angular momentum. For a weak distortion of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-20 Shi-Zeng Lin

In bulk non-centrosymmetric magnets the chiral Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange stabilizes tubular skyrmions with a reversed magnetization in their centers. While the double-twist is favorable in the center of a skyrmion, it gives rise to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-11 A. O. Leonov , U. K. Rößler , M. Mostovoy

Recent observations of topological spin textures brought spintronics one step closer to new magnetic memories. Nevertheless, the existence of Skyrmions, as well as their stabilization, require very specific intrinsic magnetic properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 E. A. Stepanov , C. Dutreix , M. I. Katsnelson

Skyrmions are topological defects belonging to nontrivial homotopy classes in particle theory. Their remarkably stable topology has recently been observed in electromagnetic waves. For the evanescent fields near a surface, this has been…

This works deals with the presence of localized planar structures in magnetic materials that admit integer or half-integer topological charge. We study models in which the internal disposition of magnetization is driven by a single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-16 D. Bazeia , E. I. B. Rodrigues

We show that stable localized topological soliton textures (skyrmions) with $\pi_2$ topological charge $\nu \geq 1$ exist in a classical 2D Heisenberg model of a ferromagnet with uniaxial anisotropy. For this model the soliton exist only if…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. G. Galkina , E. V. Kirichenko , B. A. Ivanov , V. A. Stephanovich

Magnetic skyrmions are mesmerizing spin textures with peculiar topological and dynamical properties, typically the product of competing interactions in ferromagnets, and with great technological potential [1-5]. Researchers have long…

Using semiclassical method combined with stereographic projection approach, we investigate the magnetic dynamics of the skyrmion crystal (SkX), formed in planar ferromagnet with both Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and uniform magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-09 V. E. Timofeev , D. N. Aristov

Skyrmions, topologically stable magnetic solitons characterized by whirling magnetization in nanoscale magnetic elements, show promise information carriers in spintronics and spin-based quantum computing due to their unique properties:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Suyeong Jeong , Dae-Han Jung , Hee-Sung Han , Ganghwi Kim , Myeonghwan Kang , Mi-Young Im , Younggun Park , Ki-Suk Lee

We consider the interplay between magnetic skyrmions in an insulating thin film and the Dirac surface states of a 3D topological insulator (TI), coupled by proximity effect. The magnetic texture of skyrmions can lead to confinement of Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-28 Hilary M. Hurst , Dmitry K. Efimkin , Jiadong Zang , Victor Galitski

We investigate the interplay of geometric symmetry, size, and external magnetic fields in regulating individual skyrmion states within magnetic nanostructures. By analyzing nanodisks, nanosquares, and nanorectangles, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 J. Y. Wang , C. X. Zhao , Y. F. Duan , H. M. Dong

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected solitons observed in various classes of real magnets. In two-dimensional systems, where the target space of local magnetization values is the two-sphere $S^2$, skyrmion textures are classified…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-30 Fletcher Williams , David Dahlbom , Hao Zhang , Shruti Agarwal , Kipton Barros , Cristian D. Batista

Magnetic hopfions are topologically protected three-dimensional solitons that are constituted by a tube which exhibits a topologically nontrivial spin texture in the cross-section profile and is closed to a torus. Here we show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Börge Göbel , Collins Ashu Akosa , Gen Tatara , Ingrid Mertig