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In the present work, using micromagnetic simulation, we show that the magnetic coupling effect plays a very important role in the process of creation of skyrmions in a coupled system of spin-torque nano-oscillators (STNO). First, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 H. Vigo-Cotrina , A. P. Guimarães

Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture stabilized by the protection due to their topology. In most cases they are induced by chiral interactions between atomic spins existing in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-21 Albert Fert , Nicolas Reyren , Vincent Cros

We present the design and experimental realization of a device that acts like a spin-wave lens i.e., it focuses spin waves to a specified location. The structure of the lens does not resemble any conventional lens design, it is a…

Recently spin textures called skyrmions have been discovered in certain chiral magnetic materials without spatial inversion symmetry, and have attracted enormous attention due to their promising application in spintronics since only a low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-18 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

Motivated by the recent experimental observations on the skyrmion creation by cutting chiral stripe domains under a current drive [Jiang {\emph{et al.}}, Science {\bf{349}}, 283 (2015)], we study the mechanism of skyrmion generation by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-13 Shi-Zeng Lin

The magnetic skyrmion is a nanoscale topological object characterized by the winding of the magnetic moments, appearing in magnetic materials with broken inversion symmetry. Because of its low current threshold for driving, the skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Ryo Iguchi , Shinya Kasai , Kazushige Koshikawa , Norimichi Chinone , Shinsuke Suzuki , Ken-ichi Uchida

Magnetic systems are an exciting realm of study that is being explored on smaller and smaller scales. One extremely interesting magnetic state that has gained momentum in recent years is the skyrmionic state. It is characterized by a vortex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Patrick Johnson , A K Gangopadhyay , Ramki Kalyanaraman , Zohar Nussinov

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures with rich physics and great potential for unconventional computing. Typically, skyrmions form in bulk crystals with reduced symmetry or ultrathin film multilayers involving heavy metals. Here, we…

The possibility to generate short spin waves is of great interest in the field of magnonics nowadays. We present an effective and technically affordable way of conversion of long spin waves, which may be generated by conventional microwave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Piotr Graczyk , Mateusz Zelent , Maciej Krawczyk

We theoretically propose that an electric voltage can be generated by thermal gradient with a rotating skyrmion crystal confined in a magnetic disk. We find that the rotation of skyrmion crystal induced by diffusive thermal magnon currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Junnosuke Matsuki , Masahito Mochizuki

Based on atomistic spin dynamics simulations, we report the ultrafast generation of single antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmions in a confined geometry. This process is achieved through an effective magnetic field induced by the athermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Rohollah Khoshlahni , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Anders Bergman , Arne Brataas

Magnetic skyrmions are localized nanometric spin textures with quantized winding numbers as the topological invariant. Rapidly increasing attention has been paid to the investigations of skyrmions since their experimental discovery in 2009,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-31 Ping Huang , Marco Cantoni , Alex Kruchkov , Rajeswari Jayaraman , Arnaud Magrez , Fabrizio Carbone , Henrik M. Ronnow

Recent years have witnessed an enormous rise in research interest in magnetic skyrmions owing to their capability to improve over contemporary spintronic devices. An overview of the various magnetic interactions responsible for the…

This paper reports on a theoretical proposal for electrical creation of magnetic skyrmions on a thin-film specimen of a multiferroic chiral magnet by local application of an electric field, instead of an electric current, via an electrode…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-30 Masahito Mochizuki , Yoshio Watanabe

Searching for low-power-consuming and high-efficient methods for well controllable driving of skyrmion motion is one of the most concerned issues for future spintronic applications, raising high concern with an appreciated choice of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Y. Liu , Z. Jin , T. T. Liu , Z. P. Hou , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu

Magnetic skyrmions hold promise for spintronic devices. To explore the dynamical properties of skyrmions in devices, a nanoscale method to image spin textures in response to a stimulus is essential. Here, we apply a technique for operando…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Albert M. Park , Zhen Chen , Xiyue S. Zhang , Lijun Zhu , David A. Muller , Gregory D. Fuchs

The creation and manipulation of photonic skyrmions provide a novel degree of freedom for light-matter interactions, optical communication and nanometrology. Since the localized vortex within skyrmions arises from the twist and curl of the…

Magnetic skyrmions are textures behaving as quasiparticles which are topologically different from other states. Their discovery in systems with broken inversion symmetry sparked the search for materials containing such magnetic phase at…

We propose a scheme for the creation of skyrmions (coreless vortices) in a Bose-Einstein condensate with hyperfine spin F=1. In this scheme, four traveling-wave laser beams, with Gaussian or Laguerre-Gaussian transverse profiles, induce…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl-Peter Marzlin , Weiping Zhang , Barry C. Sanders

To enable functional skyrmion based spintronic devices, the controllable generation and manipulation of skyrmions is essential. While the generation of skyrmions by using a magnetic geometrical constriction has already been demonstrated,…