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Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates as information carriers in a new generation of memories. How to generate and stabilize skyrmions is essential for their successful application to technology. Here we theoretically demonstrate that…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 Nuria Del-Valle , Sebastia Agramunt-Puig , Carles Navau , Alvaro Sanchez

Optical tools are of great promise for generation of spin waves due to the possibility to manipulate on ultrashort time scales and to provide local excitation. However, a single laser pulse can inject spin waves only with a broad frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 M. Jäckl , V. I. Belotelov , I. A. Akimov , I. V. Savochkin , D. R. Yakovlev , A. K. Zvezdin , M. Bayer

Skyrmions, once a hypothesized field-theoretical object believed to describe the nature of elementary particles, became common sightings in recent years among several non-centrosymmetric metallic ferromagnets. For more practical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Youngbin Tchoe , Jung Hoon Han

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected nanoscale objects, which are promising building blocks for novel magnetic and spintronic devices. Here, we investigate the dynamics of a skyrmion driven by a spin wave in a magnetic nanowire.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-28 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Dun Xiao , G. P. Zhao , Yaowen Liu , Yan Zhou

Recent experiments have shown that magnetic skyrmion bubbles can be generated and injected at room temperature in thin films [W. Jiang et al, Science vol. 349, 283 (2015)]. Here, we demonstrate, using micromagnetic modeling, that such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Olle Heinonen , Wanjun Jiang , Hamoud Somaily , Suzanne G. E. te Velthuis , Axel Hoffmann

We show that a resonance due to gyroscopic motion of skyrmions, conceptually similar to the electron cyclotron resonance in metals, can be excited in a ferrimagnetic film by a spin current or microwaves. It must permit unambiguous…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-09 Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Dmitry A. Garanin

A spin-polarized current in a nanocontact to a magnetic film can create collective magnetic oscillations by compensating the magnetic damping. In particular, in materials with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, droplet solitons have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Nahuel Statuto , Joan Manel Hernàndez , Andrew D. Kent , Ferran Macià

A key challenge for the realization of future skyrmion devices comprises the controlled creation, annihilation and detection of these topologically non-trivial magnetic spin textures. In this study, we report an all-optical approach for…

The creation and manipulation of magnetic skyrmions in magnetic bilayer heterostructures via spin-orbit torque have been intensively studied in spintronics because of their potential application as information carriers in next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Yuto Uwabo , Masahito Mochizuki

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

Magnetic skyrmions form in chiral multilayers from the shrinking or fission of elongated stripe textures. Here we report an experimental and theoretical study of the temperature dependence of this stripe-to-skyrmion transition in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Xiaoye Chen , Edwin Chue , Jian Feng Kong , Hui Ru Tan , Hang Khume Tan , Anjan Soumyanarayanan

Light beams, with their rich degrees of freedom, including polarization and phase, along with their flexible tunability, have emerged as an ideal tool for generating magnetic topological textures.However, how to precisely control the light…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-03 Qifan Zhang , Shirong Lin , Wu Zhang

Controlling electric and magnetic properties of matter by laser beams is actively explored in the broad region of condensed matter physics, including spintronics and magneto-optics. Here we theoretically propose an application of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Hiroyuki Fujita , Masahiro Sato

Magnetic skyrmions are nanometric spin textures characterized by a quantized topological invariant in magnets and often emerge in a crystallized form called skyrmion crystal in an external magnetic field. We propose that magnets hosting a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Mu-Kun Lee , Masahito Mochizuki

Skyrmion bags are composed of an outer skyrmion and arbitrary inner skyrmions, which have recently been observed in bulk chiral magnets, but still remain elusive in magnetic films. Here, we propose a method of creating skyrmion bags in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Lan Bo , Rongzhi Zhao , Chenglong Hu , Xichao Zhang , Xuefeng Zhang , Masahito Mochizuki

Skyrmions are topological structures characterized by a winding vectorial configuration that provides a quantized topological charge. In magnetic materials, skyrmions are localized spin textures that exhibit unique stability and mobility…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-28 Xingyu Yang , Ye Mou , Bruno Gallas , Sébastien Bidault , Mathieu Mivelle

Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like swirling spin structures with quantized topological number, observed in chiral magnets, are appealing for potential applications in spintronics because it is possible to control their motion with ultralow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Junichi Iwasaki , Masahito Mochizuki , Naoto Nagaosa

We study theoretically the dynamics of magnons in the presence of a single skyrmion in chiral magnets featuring Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We show by micromagnetic simulations that the scattering process of magnons by a skyrmion can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-18 Junichi Iwasaki , Aron J. Beekman , Naoto Nagaosa

Optical skyrmions are structured vector fields with nontrivial polarization topology and subwavelength-scale features. One common approach to generating optical skyrmions is the superposition of a zeroth-order Bessel beam and a higher-order…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-26 Donghyun Park , Alex Song , Haejun Chung , Sejeong Kim

Skyrmions, topologically stable magnetic solitons characterized by whirling magnetization in nanoscale magnetic elements, show promise information carriers in spintronics and spin-based quantum computing due to their unique properties:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Suyeong Jeong , Dae-Han Jung , Hee-Sung Han , Ganghwi Kim , Myeonghwan Kang , Mi-Young Im , Younggun Park , Ki-Suk Lee