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Polar skyrmions in ferroelectric superlattices are nanoscale topological polarization textures typically regarded as weakly coupled objects confined to individual layers, with a role secondary to that of the underlying symmetry-breaking…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-30 Zhiyang Wang , Fei Yang , Long-Qing Chen

We study the influence of curvature on the exchange energy of skyrmions and vortices on a paraboloidal surface. It is shown that such structures appear as excitations of the Heisenberg model, presenting topological stability, unlike what…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 P. S. C. Vilas-Boas , R. G. Elias , D. Altbir , J. M. fonseca , V. L. Carvalho-Santos

In the present research, we demonstrate the usage of plasmonic effects in thin film structures to control magnetic topological textures, specifically skyrmions and skyrmioniums. We investigate numerically the generation and alteration of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 W. Al Saidi , R. Sbiaa , Y. Dusch , N. Tiercelin

The central idea of metamaterials and metaoptics is that, besides their base materials, the geometry of structures offers a broad extra dimension to explore for exotic functionalities. Here, we discover that the topology of structures…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-21 Jie Peng , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Shiqi Jia , Wei Liu , Shubo Wang

The spatiotemporal sculpturing of light beams with arbitrary phase and polarization topologies has garnered significant attention in recent years due to its potential to advance optical technologies and reveal novel physical phenomena.…

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures with a nontrivial topology that offer a potential for future magnetic memory and storage devices. The controlled formation and adjustment of size and density of magnetic skyrmions in Ta/CoFeB/MgO…

Recent advances in moire engineering provide new pathways for manipulating lattice distortions and electronic properties in low-dimensional materials. Here, we demonstrate that twisted stacking can induce dipolar vortices in metallic SrRuO3…

We demonstrate the controlled generation and annihilation of (anti)skyrmions with tunable chirality in magnetic heterostructures by means of micromagnetic simulations. By making use of magnetic (anti)vortices in patterned ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Sabri Koraltan , Claas Abert , Florian Bruckner , Michael Heigl , Manfred Albrecht , Dieter Suess

SrTiO3 is a textbook quantum paraelectric, with ferroelectricity purportedly suppressed by quantum fluctuations of ionic positions down to the lowest temperatures. The precise real space structure of SrTiO3 at low temperature, however, has…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Yang Zhang , Suk Hyun Sung , Nishkarsh Agarwal , Maya Gates , Cong Li , Pu Yu , Robert Hovden , Ismail El Baggari

Chiral $p$-wave superconductors in applied magnetic field can exhibit more complex topological defects than just conventional superconducting vortices, due to the two-component order parameter (OP) and the broken time-reversal symmetry. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-22 L. -F. Zhang , V. Fernández Becerra , L. Covaci , M. V. Milošević

Nontrivial topological spin-textures, such as skyrmions, merons, bimerons, and skyrmioniums, are envisioned as robust building blocks for future memory and logic devices. Controllable transformations between these states require a…

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials show a range of profound physical properties that can be tailored through their incorporation in heterostructures and manipulated with external forces. The recent discovery of long-range…

Charged polar interfaces such as charged ferroelectric domain walls or heterostructured interfaces of ZnO/(Zn,Mg)O and LaAlO3/SrTiO3, across which the normal component of electric polarization changes suddenly, can host large…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-06 F. -T. Huang , F. Xue , B. Gao , L. H. Wang , X. Luo , W. Cai , X. Lu , J. M. Rondinelli , L. Q. Chen , S. -W. Cheong

Topologically secure spin configurations, such as skyrmions and bimerons, offer a compelling alternative to conventional magnetic domains, potentially enabling high-density, low-power spintronic devices. These pseudo-particles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Martín Latorre , Joaquín Barra , Juan Pablo Vera , Joaquín Martinez , Mario Castro , Sebastián Allende , Alvaro S. Nunez

The nontrivial topology of spin systems such as skyrmions in real space can promote complex electronic states. Here, we provide a general viewpoint at the emergence of topological electronic states in spin systems based on the methods of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-16 Fabian R. Lux , Sumit Ghosh , Pascal Prass , Emil Prodan , Yuriy Mokrousov

Multi-functional manipulation of magnetic topological textures such as skyrmions and bimerons in energy-efficient ways is of great importance for spintronic applications, but still being a big challenge. Here, by first-principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-01 Zhong Shen , Shuai Dong , Xiaoyan Yao

Topological wave structures -- phase vortices, skyrmions, merons, etc. -- are attracting enormous attention in a variety of quantum and classical wave fields. Surprisingly, these structures have never been properly explored in the most…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-11 Daria A. Smirnova , Franco Nori , Konstantin Y. Bliokh

Magnetic skyrmions have so far been treated as two-dimensional spin structures characterized by a topological winding number describing the rotation of spins across the skyrmion. However, in real systems with a finite thickness of the…

Two-dimensional materials are a highly tunable platform for studying the momentum space topology of the electronic wavefunctions and real space topology in terms of skyrmions, merons, and vortices of an order parameter. Such textures for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Daniel Bennett , Aneesh Agarwal , Gaurav Chaudhary , Robert-Jan Slager

Artificial Spin Ices are two dimensional arrays of magnetic, interacting nano-structures whose geometry can be chosen at will, and whose elementary degrees of freedom can be characterized directly. They were introduced at first to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Cristiano Nisoli