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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…

Ne\'el skyrmions originate from interfacial Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction (DMI). Recent studies have explored using ferromagnet to host Ne\'el skyrmions for device applications. However, challenges remain to reduce the size of skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 Marco Chung Ting Ma , Yunkun Xie , Howard Sheng , S. Joseph Poon , Avik Ghosh

Magnetic skyrmions have emerged as promising elements for encoding information towards biomimetic computing applications due to their pseudoparticle nature and efficient coupling to spin currents. A key hindrance for skyrmionic devices is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-13 Xiaoye Chen , Tommy Tai , Hui Ru Tan , Hang Khume Tan , Royston Lim , Pin Ho , Anjan Soumyanarayanan

We identify a mechanism to convert skyrmions and antiskyrmions into their antiferromagnetic (AFM) counterparts via interfacial engineering. The key idea is to combine properties of an antiferromagnet and a spin-orbit (SO) coupled metal.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Arnob Mukherjee , Deepak S. Kathyat , Sanjeev Kumar

The interface between a ferromagnet (FM) or antiferromagnet (AFM) and a heavy metal (HM) results in an antisymmetric exchange interaction known as the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI) which favors non-collinear spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 Md. Rakibul Karim Akanda , In Jun Park , Roger K. Lake

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…

Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates for the next generation of spintronic devices due to their small size and topologically protected structure. One challenge for using these magnetic states in applications lies on controlling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 J. Brandão , D. A. Dugato , R. L. Seeger , J. C. Denardin , T. J. A. Mori , J. C. Cezar

N\'eel-type magnetic skyrmions in multilayer films have attracted significant amount of attention recently for their stability at room temperature and capability of motion driven by a low-density electrical current, which can be potentially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Senfu Zhang , Junwei Zhang , Yan Wen , Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Xixiang Zhang

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin structure, and their existence in ferromagnetically coupled multilayers has been reported with disordered arrangement. In these multilayers, the heavy metal spacing layers provide an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-30 Yong Li , Qiyuan Feng , Sihua Li , Ke Huang , Weiliang Gan , Haibiao Zhou , Xiangjun Jin , Xiao Renshaw Wang , Fusheng Ma , Qingyou Lu , Wen Siang Lew

Implementation of skyrmion based energy efficient and high-density data storage devices requires aggressive scaling of skyrmion size. Ferrimagnetic materials are considered to be a suitable platform for this purpose due to their low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Md Mahadi Rajib , Walid Al Misba , Dhritiman Bhattacharya , Jayasimha Atulasimha

A key element to tailor the properties of magnetic multilayers is the coupling between the individual magnetic layers. In case of skyrmion hosting multilayers, coupling of skyrmions across the magnetic layers is highly desirable. Here the…

Thin magnetic films with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions are known to host skyrmion crystals, which typically have a hexagonal lattice structure. We investigate skyrmion-lattice configurations in synthetic antiferromagnets, i.e., a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Etienne van Walsem , Rembert A. Duine , Juriaan Lucassen , Reinoud Lavrijsen , Henk J. M. Swagten

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmions are envisioned as ideal localized topological magnetic bits in future information technologies. In contrast to ferromagnetic (FM) skyrmions, they are immune to the skyrmion Hall effect, might offer…

Facing the ever-growing demand for data storage will most probably require a new paradigm. Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions are anticipated to solve this issue as they are arguably the smallest spin textures in magnetic thin films in nature. We…

Understanding the role of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) for the formation of helimagnetic order, as well as the emergence of skyrmions in magnetic systems that lack inversion symmetry, has found increasing interest due to the…

Magnetic skyrmions are localized, topologically protected spin-structures that have been proposed for storing or processing information due to their intriguing dynamical and transport properties. Important in terms of applications is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-07 B. Dupé , G. Bihlmayer , S. Blügel , S. Heinze

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets have recently gained significant interest because they combine the advantages of both ferromagnets (spin polarization) and antiferromagnets (absence of net magnetization) for spintronics applications. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-29 Soho Shim , M. Mehraeen , Joseph Sklenar , Steven S. -L. Zhang , Axel Hoffmann , Nadya Mason

Topologically protected magnetic states in condensed matter physics, particularly antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmions (Sks) and bimerons (Bms), offer promising prospects for terahertz dynamics and sustained current-induced motion, thanks to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-30 Coline Thevenard , Miina Leiviskä , Richard F. L. Evans , Daria Gusakova , Vincent Baltz

Calculations of skyrmions in antiferromagnets (AFMs) are presented, and their properties compared with skyrmions in corresponding ferromagnets (FMs). The rates of skyrmion collapse and escape through the boundary of a track, as well as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-24 Maria N. Potkina , Igor S. Lobanov , Hannes Jónsson , Valery M. Uzdin

The current driven motion of skyrmions in MnSi and FeGe thinned single crystals could be initiated at current densities of the order of $10^6$ A/m, five orders of magnitude smaller than for magnetic domain walls. The technologically crucial…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-07 Mirko Baćani , Miguel A. Marioni , Johannes Schwenk , Hans J. Hug