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In the Kerr rotation geometry, magneto optic memory devices typically suffer from low figure-of-merit (FOM) and long write times. We show that skyrmions formed at the interface of a thin-film multiferroic and a topological insulator can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Tonmoy K. Bhowmick , Amrit De , Roger K. Lake

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…

Recent developments in the magnetization dynamics in spin textures, particularly skyrmions, offer promising new directions for magnetic storage technologies and spintronics. Skyrmions, characterized by their topological protection and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-21 Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Seung-Cheol Lee

Strong electronic correlations can produce remarkable phenomena such as metal-insulator transitions and greatly enhance superconductivity, thermoelectricity, or optical non-linearity. In correlated systems, spatially varying charge textures…

Magnetic skyrmions are promising spin textures for building next-generation magnetic memories and spintronic devices. Nevertheless, one of the major challenges in realizing skyrmion-based devices is the stabilization of ordered arrays of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-02 E. Iroulart , H. D. Rosales

Magnetic skyrmions present interesting physics due to their topological nature and hold significant promise for future information technologies. A key barrier to realizing skyrmion devices has been stabilizing these spin structures under…

Magnetic skyrmions are intriguing topological spin textures that have attracted great attention due to their potential for future spintronic devices. Skyrmions have so far been explored in different magnetic materials, such as ferromagnets,…

Here we consider an interplay between the topology of the magnetization texture (which is a topological soliton, or Skyrmion) in a planar magnetic nano-element and the topology of the element itself (its connectivity). We establish the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Andrei B. Bogatyrëv , Konstantin L. Metlov

Magnetic textures such as skyrmions in thin films grown on substrates possess significant technological potential. Inhomogeneous magnetic structures can be described as homogeneous ferromagnetic order in the presence of anisotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Zachary Llewellyn , Eric Mascot , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Stephan Rachel

Magnetic skyrmions have attracted enormous research interest since their discovery a decade ago. The non-trivial real-space topology of these nano-whirls leads to fundamentally interesting and technologically relevant consequences - the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig , Oleg A. Tretiakov

In multiferroic materials, the microscopic magnetic and electric textures are strongly correlated with each other by magnetoelectric (ME) coupling. Therefore, topological electric dipole textures, such as ferroelectric (FE) dipole skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Zhosen Liu

The skyrmion number density, $q\equiv\vec{n}\cdot\left(\partial_x\vec{n}\times\partial_y\vec{n}\right)/(4\pi)$, is one of the key quantities that characterizes the topological properties of a magnetic skyrmion. In this work, we propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Emir Syahreza Fadhilla , M Shoufie Ukhtary , Ardian Nata Atmaja , Bobby Eka Gunara

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

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected local magnetic solitons that are promising for storage, logic or general computing applications. In this work, we demonstrate that we can use a skyrmion device based on [W/CoFeB/MgO] 1 0…

Magnetic skyrmion holds promise as information carriers in the next-generation memory and logic devices, owing to the topological stability, small size and extremely low current needed to drive it. One of the most potential applications of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Wang Kang , Chentian Zheng , Yangqi Huang , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Weifeng Lv , Weisheng Zhao

When spin polarised electrons flow through a magnetic texture a transfer torque is generated. We examine the effect of this torque on skyrmions and skyrmion bags, skyrmionic structures of arbitrary integer topological degree, in thin…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-07 Charles Kind , David Foster

Magnetic spin topological textures recently found their electrical counterparts in polar topologies emerging from the condensation of inhomogeneous polar atomic distortions. Here, we further extend the concept to other non-polar atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-10 Fernando Gómez-Ortiz , Louis Bastogne , Philippe Ghosez

Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like swirling spin textures characterized by a quantized topological invariant, realized in chiral-lattice magnets are currently attracting intense research interest. In particular, their dynamics under external…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-20 Masahito Mochizuki , Shinichiro Seki

Multiband superconductors have a sufficient number of degrees of freedom to allow topological excitations characterized by Skyrmionic topological invariants. In the most common, clean s-wave multiband, systems the interband magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-04 Thomas Winyard , Mihail Silaev , Egor Babaev

Topologically distinct magnetic structures like skyrmions, domain walls, and the uniformly magnetized state have multiple applications in logic devices, sensors, and as bits of information. One of the most promising concepts for applying…