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Magnetic chiral skyrmions are vortex like spin structures that appear as stable or meta-stable states in magnetic materials due to the interplay between the symmetric and antisymmetric exchange interactions, applied magnetic field and/or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-01 Changhoon Heo , Nikolai S. Kiselev , Ashis Kumar Nandy , Stefan Blügel , Theo Rasing

We demonstrate numerically on large spin lattices that one can write skyrmions in a thin magnetic film with a magnetic dipole of a few tens of nanometer in size. Nucleation of non-chiral skyrmions as well as chiral skyrmions formed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Dmitry A. Garanin , Daniel Capic , Senfu Zhang , Xixiang Zhang , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Skyrmions are topologically protected field configurations with particle-like properties that play important roles in various fields of science. Recently, skyrmions have been directly observed in chiral magnets. Here, we investigate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-15 R. L. Silva , L. D. Secchin , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira , R. L. Stamps

The chiral plasmon modes of relativistic matter in background magnetic and strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields are studied in detail using the consistent chiral kinetic theory. The results reveal a number of anomalous features of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Skyrmions are disk-like objects that typically form triangular crystals in two dimensional systems. This situation is analogous to the so-called "pancake vortices" of quasi-two dimensional superconductors. The way in which skyrmion disks or…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-15 Shi-Zeng Lin , Cristian D. Batista

Skyrmions are topologically-protected spin textures thought to nucleate and annihilate on points of vanishing magnetization, called Bloch points. However, owing to a lack of bulk techniques, experimental visualizations of skyrmion lattices…

We unveil a new topological quasiparticle of light in 3D space, named the photonic Shankar skyrmion. We show that an elliptically polarized field can be described by an SO(3) order parameter and it can form a texture in 3D space classified…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 Haiwen Wang , Shanhui Fan

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-scale magnetic whirls that can be driven by currents via spin torques. They are promising candidates for spintronic devices such as the racetrack memory, where a motion along the uniform current is typically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ismael Ribeiro de Assis , Ingrid Mertig , Börge Göbel

We report three-dimensional topological spin configurations including a novel form of skyrmion-antiskyrmion coupling in D2d chiral magnets. The skyrmion-antiskyrmion coupled string, consisting of skyrmions located in the near-surface layers…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-11 Jin Tang , Yaodong Wu , Jialiang Jiang , Lingyao Kong , Wei Liu , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du

Magnetic skyrmions, topologically stabilized chiral magnetic textures with particle-like properties have so far primarily been studied statically. Here, we experimentally investigate the dynamics of skyrmion ensembles in metallic thin film…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Klaus Raab , Maurice Schmitt , Maarten A. Brems , Jan Rothörl , Fabian Kammerbauer , Sachin Krishnia , Mathias Kläui , Peter Virnau

The realization of magnetic skyrmions in two-dimensional (2D) magnets holds great promise for both fundamental research and device applications. Despite recent progress, two-dimensional skyrmion hosts are still limited, due to the fact that…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Jingman Pang , Xiaohang Niu , Hong Jian Zhao , Yun Zhang , Laurent Bellaiche

Optical skyrmions have attracted significant attention across diverse physical systems for their promising scenarios in ultra-precise metrology, optical information processing, and quantum technologies. However, the lack of effective method…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-13 Lvjin He , Shanshan Chen , Ziyang Chen , Lan Zhang , Lipeng Wan , Weimin Deng , Tianbao Yu

Magnetic Skyrmions and multiferroics are the most interesting objects in nanostructure science that have great potential in future spin-electronic technology. The study of multiferroic Skyrmions has attracted much interest in recent years.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Zidong Wang , Malcolm J. Grimson

The topological Hall effect is used extensively to study chiral spin textures in various materials. However, the factors controlling its magnitude in technologically-relevant thin films remain uncertain. Using variable temperature…

Magnetic skyrmions and skyrmion bags are nano-scale spin textures whose stability, size and ease of manipulation make them strong contenders for next generation data and logic applications. Skyrmion bags are composite skyrmions of any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-18 Charles Kind , David Foster

Skyrmionic patterns of optical fields have recently emerged across diverse photonic platforms. Here, we show that such textures also arise in the polarization eigenstates of light propagation through flat dielectric devices with an…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-13 Francesco Di Colandrea , Lorenzo Marrucci , Filippo Cardano

Chiral crystals are materials whose lattice structure has a well-defined handedness due to the lack of inversion, mirror, or other roto-inversion symmetries. These crystals represent a broad, important class of quantum materials; their…

Magnetic skyrmions offer promising prospects for constructing future energy-efficient and high-density information technology, leading to extensive explorations of new skyrmionic materials recently. The topological Hall effect has been…

Skyrmions represent topologically stable field configurations with particle-like properties. We used neutron scattering to observe the spontaneous formation of a two-dimensional lattice of skyrmion lines, a type of magnetic vortices, in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Mühlbauer , B. Binz , F. Jonietz , C. Pfleiderer , A. Rosch , A. Neubauer , R. Georgii , P. Böni

Magnetic skyrmion, a swirling spin texture, in chiral magnets is characterized by (i) nano-scale size ($\sim$1nm -- 100nm), (ii) topological stability, and (iii) gyro-dynamics. These features are shown to be advantageous for (a)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 W. Koshibae , Y. Kaneko , J. Iwasaki , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura , N. Nagaosa