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Future spintronic devices based on skyrmions will require precise control of the skyrmion motion. We show that this goal can be achieved through the use of magnetic antidot arrays. With micromagnetic simulations and semi-analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 J. Feilhauer , S. Saha , J. Tobik , M. Zelent , L. J. Heyderman , M. Mruczkiewicz

The dynamics of antiferromagnets is a current hot topic in condensed matter physics and spintronics. However, the dynamics of insulating antiferromagnets cannot be excited by an electric current, which is a method usually used to manipulate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Guoping Zhao , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

We demonstrate that the spin Hall effect in a thin film with strong spin-orbit scattering can excite magnetic precession in an adjacent ferromagnetic film. The flow of alternating current through a Pt/NiFe bilayer generates an oscillating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Luqiao Liu , Takahiro Moriyama , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

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

Topological magnetic textures confined to two-dimensional (2D) non-orientable manifolds exhibit behaviors absent in planar systems. We investigate bimerons on M\"obius surfaces and show that the lack of global orientation alters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Carlos Saji , Mario A. Castro , Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos , Eduardo Saavedra , Alvaro S. Nunez , Roberto E. Troncoso

Controlling spin current lies at the heart of spintronics and its applications. The sign of spin currents is monotonous in ferromagnets once the current direction is determined. Spin currents in antiferromagnets can possess opposite…

Magnetic skyrmions are topological solitons with a nanoscale winding spin texture that hold promise for spintronics applications. Until now, skyrmions have been observed in a variety of magnets that exhibit nearly parallel alignment for the…

Altermagnets, a recently identified class of magnetic materials, possess a spin-split Fermi surface that results in the so-called spin splitter effect, enabling the generation of a spin current transverse to the injection direction and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable spin swirling particle like entities which are appealing for next generation spintronic devices. The expected low critical current density for the motion of skyrmions makes them potential…

Magnetic skyrmions are compact chiral spin textures that exhibit a rich variety of topological phenomena and hold potential for developing high-density memory devices and novel computing schemes driven by spin currents. Here, we demonstrate…

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya materials with easy-axis anisotropy. An important link between topology and dynamics is established through the construction of unambiguous conservation laws obtained earlier in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

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

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically-protected spin textures existing in helimagentic materials, which can be utilized as information carriers for non-volatile memories and logic circuits in spintronics. Searching simple and controllable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ya-qing Zheng , Yong Wang

The texture in antiferromagnets hosting a topologically protected skyrmion can be viewed as two effectively coupled ferromagnetic skyrmions. Assuming rigid magnetic configurations, we show that this coupling results in an effective mass of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Michael Lau , Wolfgang Häusler , Michael Thorwart

Skyrmions are prospected as the potential future of data storage due to their topologically protected spin structures. However, traditional ferromagnetic (FM) skyrmions experience deflection when driven with an electric current, hindering…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-08 Amal Aldarawsheh , Moritz Sallermann , Muayad Abusaa , Samir Lounis

We consider a twisted magnetic bilayer subject to the perpendicular electric field. The interplay of induced Dzyaloshinskii - Moriya interaction and spatially varying moir\'e exchange potential results in complex non-collinear magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Polina Shaban , Igor Lobanov , Valerii Uzdin , Ivan Iorsh

Magnetic skyrmions can be driven by an applied spin-polarized electron current which exerts a spin-transfer torque on the localized spins constituting the skyrmion. However, the longitudinal dynamics is plagued by the skyrmion Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 J. Plettenberg , M. Stier , M. Thorwart

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

As a fundamental type of topological spin textures in two-dimensional (2D) magnets, a magnetic meron carries half-integer topological charge and forms a pair with its antithesis to keep the stability in materials. However, it is challenging…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-20 Xiaobo Lu , Linghan Zhu , Li Yang

In chiral magnets, localized topological magnetic whirls, magnetic skyrmions, can be moved by spin polarized electric currents. Upon increasing the current strength, with prospects for high-speed skyrmion motion for spintronics applications…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 Jan Masell , Davi R. Rodrigues , Ben F. McKeever , Karin Everschor-Sitte