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The topological Hall effect (THE), as one of the primary manifestations of non-trivial topology of chiral skyrmions, is traditionally used to detect the emergence of skyrmion lattices with locally ferromagnetic order. In this work we…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-18 Patrick M. Buhl , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

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

Magnetic skyrmions are localized chiral spin textures, which offer great promise to store and process information at the nanoscale. In the presence of asymmetric exchange interactions, their chirality, which governs their dynamics, is…

We consider a holographic description of the chiral symmetry breaking in an external magnetic field in $ (2+1) $-dimensional gauge theories from the softwall model using an improved dilaton field profile given by $\Phi(z) = - kz^2 +…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-06 Diego M. Rodrigues , Danning Li , Eduardo Folco Capossoli , Henrique Boschi-Filho

A magnetic skyrmion is a topological object consisting of an inner domain, an outer domain, and a wall that separates the two domains. The skyrmion size and wall width are two fundamental quantities of a skyrmion that depend sensitively on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 X. S. Wang , H. Y. Yuan , X. R. Wang

Topological spin textures, like skyrmions, have significant potential for spintronics applications. The main purpose of this work is to study further the topological spin textures on the discrete lattice with magnetic fields. In this work,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Lipeng Jin , Bin Xi , Yongjun Liu

Topologically protected spin textures, such as magnetic skyrmions, have the potential for dense data storage as well as energy-efficient computing due to their small size and a low driving current. The evaluation of the writing and reading…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-18 Aijaz H. Lone , Xuecui Zou , Debasis Das , Xuanyao Fong , Gianluca Setti , Hossein Fariborzi

Chiral magnetic textures with non-trivial topology are known as skyrmions, and due to their unique properties they are promising in novel magnetic storage applications. While the electric manipulation of either isolated skyrmions or a whole…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-11 Huang Ping , Marco Cantoni , Arnaud Magrez , Fabrizio Carbone , Henrik M. Rønnow

Topological spin textures can serve as non-volatile information carriers. Here we study the current-induced dynamics of an isolated magnetic skyrmion on a nanoscale square-grid pinning pattern formed by orthogonal defect lines with reduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Keiichiro Shirai , Hiroshi Fujiwara , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou , Xiaoxi Liu

We propose a new classification of magnetic textures from the viewpoint of differential geometry. Magnetic textures are conventionally classified into collinear, coplanar, and noncoplanar magnets. These classes are typically characterized…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-09 Koki Shinada , Naoto Nagaosa

Chirality is a fundamental organizing principle of correlated and topological states. In quantum magnets, chirality arises from the geometric twisting of spins and serves as an emergent source of Berry curvature and quantum metrics.…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin swirling vertices, which are promising in device applications due to their particle-like nature and excellent controlability. Magnetic skyrmions have been extensively studied in a variety…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-10 Fawei Zheng

In this short review a broad range of chiral phenomena observed in magnetic films (spin cycloid and skyrmion structures formation as well as chirality dependent domain wall motion) is considered under the perspective of spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 A. P. Pyatakov , A. S. Sergeev , F. A. Mikailzade , A. K. Zvezdin

The development and characterization of three-dimensional (3D) topological magnetic textures has become an important topic in modern magnetism both for fundamental and technological perspectives. Among the novel 3D spin textures, skyrmionic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 M. Grelier , R. Battistelli , H. Popescu , F. Godel , A. Vecchiola , S. Collin , C. Léveillé , K. Bouzehouane , F. Büttner , V. Cros , N. Jaouen , N. Reyren

Magnetic skyrmions are fascinating topological particle-like textures promoted by a trade-off among interfacial properties (perpendicular anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI)) and dipolar interactions. Depending on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 R. Tomasello , Z. Wang , E. Raimondo , S. Je , M. Im , M. Carpentieri , W. Jiang , G. Finocchio

In this letter, we report the visualization of topologically protected spin textures, in the form of magnetic skyrmions, in recently discovered monoatomic-thin two-dimensional CrI$_3$. By combining density functional theory and atomistic…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-24 Aroop K. Behera , Sugata Chowdhury , Suprem R. Das

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like topological excitations that recently generated much interest as candidates for future spintronic devices based on skyrmion small size, enhanced topological stability, and/or mutual interaction. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Thomas T. J. Mutter , Andrey O. Leonov , Katsuya Inoue

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale windings of the spin configuration that hold great promise for technology due to their topology-related properties and extremely reduced sizes. After the recent observation at room temperature of sub-100 nm…

Axisymmetric magnetic lines of nanometer sizes (chiral vortices or skyrmions) have been predicted to exist in a large group of noncentrosymmetric crystals more than two decades ago. Recently these magnetic textures have been directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 N. S. Kiselev , A. N. Bogdanov , R. Schäfer , U. K. Rößler

Chiral symmetry breaking in magnetic thin films stabilizes new families of topological solitons that are absent in conventional anisotropic ferromagnets. Beyond the classical chiral skyrmion, which arises in uniaxial systems through the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Glal Bacho , Christof Melcher