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Optical skyrmions offer a robust vectorial information degree of freedom for free-space communication, but practical deployment requires a compact platform capable of active topological reconfiguration. Here, we propose a silicon…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zili Cai , Tian Zhang , Qi Chen , Zheng Wang , Jian Dai , Kun Xu

Controlling multiple skyrmions in nanowires is important for their implementation in racetrack memory or neuromorphic computing. Here, we report on the dynamical behavior of two interacting skyrmions in confined devices with a comparison to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 W. Al Saidi , R. Sbiaa , S. Bhatti , S. N. Piramanayagam , S. Al Risi , O. Al Bahri

We report on the realization of dynamical control of transport for ultra-cold Sr88 atoms loaded in an accelerated and amplitude-modulated 1D optical lattice. We tailor the energy dispersion of traveling wave packets and reversibly switch…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-14 A. Alberti , G. Ferrari , V. V. Ivanov , M. L. Chiofalo , G. M. Tino

We have realized real-time steering of the directed transport in a Brownian motor based on cold atoms in optical lattices, and demonstrate drifts along pre-designed paths. The transport is induced by spatiotemporal asymmetries in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-02-04 H. Hagman , M. Zelan , C. M. Dion , A. Kastberg

We find mode-locking steps in simulated current-voltage characteristics of driven vortex lattices with {\it random} pinning when an applied ac-current is {\it perpendicular} to the dc-current. For low frequencies there is mode-locking only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Alejandro B. Kolton , Daniel Dominguez , Niels Gronbech-Jensen

Scattering analysis offers a fundamental route to revealing particle interactions with direct implications for device technologies relying on ensembles of particles such as magnetic skyrmions. Here, we directly visualize, in real time, the…

Single magnetic skyrmions are localized whirls in the magnetization with an integer winding number. They have been observed on nano-meter scales up to room temperature in multilayer structures. Due to their small size, topological winding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-20 Jan Müller

Electron spin-momentum locking together with background magnetic textures can significantly alter the electron transport properties. We theoretically investigate the electron transport at the interface between a topological insulator and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 Yasufumi Araki , Kentaro Nomura

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable nanoscale particle-like objects that were discovered in 2009. Since that time, intense research interest has led to the identification of numerous compounds that support skyrmions over a range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt , M. V. Milosevic

We investigate theoretically spin-resolved transport, spin filtering, and nonreciprocal effects in an Altermagnet/Ising superconductor (AM/ISC) junction with a spin-active interface. Using a modified Bogoliubov-de Gennes framework within…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-14 Arindam Boruah , Saumen Acharjee , Prasanta Kumar Saikia

We report the discovery and direct visualization of skyrmion clusters with mutually-orthogonal orientations of constituent isolated skyrmions in chiral liquid crystals and ferromagnets. We show that the nascent conical state underlies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Hayley. R. O. Sohn , Sergei M. Vlasov , Valeriy M. Uzdin , Andrey O. Leonov , Ivan I. Smalyukh

The center of mass and helicity are two dynamic degrees of freedom of skyrmions. In this work, we study the current-driven skyrmion motion in frustrated altermagnets. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we find that the skyrmion helicity is…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Yang Liu , Zhejunyu Jin , Jie Liu , Peng Yan

Magnetic skyrmionium is a skyrmion-like spin texture with nanoscale size and high mobility. It is a topologically trivial but dynamically stable structure, which can be used as a non-volatile information carrier for next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Xue Liang , Xichao Zhang , Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Motohiko Ezawa , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

We predict a novel twisted skyrmion structure at the boundary of two antiferromagnetically coupled magnetic domains with antiparallel magnetization directions. Through this intermediate state, skyrmions with opposite polarities can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Huanhuan Yang , C. Wang , Xiaofan Wang , X. S. Wang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Skyrmions, originally from condensed matter physics, have been widely explored in various physical systems, including soft matter. A crucial challenge in manipulating topological solitary waves like skyrmions is controlling their flow on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-23 Jiahao Chen , Wentao Tang , Xingzhou Tang , Yang Ding , Jie Ni , Yuxi Chen , Bingxiang Li , Rui Zhang , Juan de Pablo , Yanqing Lu

We consider a discretized version of the quenched Edwards-Wilkinson model for the propagation of a driven interface through a random field of obstacles. Our model consists of a system of ordinary differential equations on a $d$-dimensional…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Patrick W. Dondl , Michael Scheutzow

We provide a generic scheme offering real time control of directed particle transport in superimposed driven lattices. This scheme allows to accelerate, slow and freeze the transport on demand, by switching one of the lattices subsequently…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-06 Aritra K. Mukhopadhyay , Benno Liebchen , Thomas Wulf , Peter Schmelcher

The transport of motile entities across modulated energy landscapes plays an important role in a range of phenomena in biology, colloidal science and solid-state physics. Here, an easily implementable strategy that allows for the collective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-11 Fernando Martínez-Pedrero , Francisco Ortega , Ramón G. Rubio , Carles Calero

A discussion on the interaction between skyrmions in a bi-layer system connected by a non-magnetic metal is presented. From considering a free charge carrier model, we have shown that the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY ) inter- action…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 R. Cacilhas , S. Vojkovic , V. L. Carvalho-Santos , E. B. Carvalho , A. R. Pereira , D. Altbir , Á. S. Núñez

Using particle-based simulations, we examine the collective dynamics of skyrmions interacting with periodic pinning arrays, focusing on the impact of the Magnus force on the sliding phases. As a function of increasing pinning strength, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 C. Reichhardt , D. Ray , C. J. O. Reichhardt