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Theoretical investigation demonstrates that the composite bilayer (i.e., chiral-magnetic/ferroelectric bilayer) offers the possibility of electric-induced magnetic Skyrmions [Phys. Rev. B \textbf{94}, 014311 (2016)]. In this Article, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-29 Zidong Wang , Malcolm Grimson

The competition between the ferromagnetic exchange interaction and anti-symmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction can stabilize a helical phase or support the formation of skyrmions. In thin films of chiral magnets, the current density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Jan Masell , Xiuzhen Yu , Naoya Kanazawa , Yoshinori Tokura , Naoto Nagaosa

Magnetic textures can be manipulated by electric currents via the mechanisms of spin-transfer and spin-orbit-torques. We review how these torques can be exploited to create chiral magnetic textures in magnets with broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Jan Masell , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Magnetic devices are a leading contender for implementing memory and logic technologies that are nonvolatile, that can scale to high density and high speed, and that do not suffer wear-out. However, widespread applications of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. R. Mellnik , J. S. Lee , A. Richardella , J. L. Grab , P. J. Mintun , M. H. Fischer , A. Vaezi , A. Manchon , E. -A. Kim , N. Samarth , D. C. Ralph

Curvature is a highly relevant parameter when considering nanostructures, favoring the stability and affecting the dynamics of magnetic textures. In this work, we address the spin-transfer torque phenomenon by deriving an expanded Thiele…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 J. I. Costilla , M. Castro , K. V. Yershov , D. Altbir , V. L. Carvalho-Santos , V. P. Kravchuk

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically nontrivial spin configurations that possess particle-like properties. Earlier research was mainly focused on a specific type of skyrmion with topological charge Q = -1. However, theoretical analyses of…

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…

Noninteracting electrons confined to a corrugated surface are investigated in magnetic field, and the associated effective Pauli equation is given analytically by the thin-layer quantization scheme. Interestingly, the Zeeman splitting gaps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Hao Zhao , Yong-Long Wang , Run Cheng , Guo-Hua Liang , Hua Jiang , Hui Liu , Hong-Shi Zong

Non-interacting particles exhibiting Brownian motion have been observed in many occasions of sciences, such as molecules suspended in liquids, optically trapped microbeads, and spin textures in magnetic materials. In particular, a detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 Le Zhao , Zidong Wang , Xichao Zhang , Xue Liang , Jing Xia , Keyu Wu , Heng-An Zhou , Yiqing Dong , Guoqiang Yu , Kang L. Wang , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou , Wanjun Jiang

In chiral magnets without inversion symmetry, the magnetic structure can form a lattice of magnetic whirl lines, a two-dimensional skyrmion lattice, stabilized by spin-orbit interactions in a small range of temperatures and magnetic fields.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Karin Everschor , Markus Garst , R. A. Duine , Achim Rosch

Skyrmions are spatially localized magnetic swirls which carry a nonzero integer topological charge. We study crystals of skyrmions in a two-dimensional ferromagnet model with chiral interactions induced by the presence of broken inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-22 Sopheak Sorn , Stefan Divic , Arun Paramekanti

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin textures of potential interest for future information storage applications, and for such purposes, the control and understanding of single skyrmion creation is required. A scheme is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Gen Yin , Yufan Li , Lingyao Kong , Roger K. Lake , C. L. Chien , Jiadong Zang

We theoretically study equilibrium and dynamic properties of nanosized magnetic skyrmions in thin magnetic films with broken inversion symmetry, where electric field couples to magnetization via spin-orbit coupling. Based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Pramey Upadhyaya , Guoqiang Yu , Pedram Khalili Amiri , Kang L. Wang

The dynamics of magnetic skyrmion driven by spin-polarized current is theoretically studied in the chiral ferromagnetic film with spatially modulated Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Three cases including linear, sinusoidal, and periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Liping Zhou , Ren Qin , Ya-qing Zheng , Yong Wang

Magnetic vortices and skyrmions represent two fundamental classes of topological spin textures in ferromagnetic systems, distinguished by their unique stabilization mechanisms and degrees of freedom. Vortices, characterized by circular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Haobing Zhang , Xintao Fan , Weiwei Wang

An analytical expression is obtained for the mass of an isolated magnetic skyrmion and its linearized equation of motion. The magnetic skyrmion is viewed as a topologically protected spin-wave soliton in the magnetic ultrathin films…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Yoshishige Suzuki , Soma Miki , Hikaru Nomura , Eiiti Tamura

The interesting physics and potential memory technologies resulting from topologically protected spin textures such as skyrmions, has prompted efforts to discover new material systems that can host these kind of magnetic structures. Here we…

A model for a spin-torque nano-oscillator based on the self-sustained oscillation of a magnetic skyrmion is presented. The system involves a circular nanopillar geometry comprising an ultrathin film free magnetic layer with a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 F. Garcia-Sanchez , J. Sampaio , N. Reyren , V. Cros , J. -V. Kim

The magnetic skyrmion structure can be formed in the chiral magnets (CMs) with strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. In this work, we propose a way of artificially tailoring the topological details of the skyrmion such as its radial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 Yin-Yan Zhang , Rui Zhu

Polarization of light can form skyrmionic textures, akin to nonlinear solitons in condensed matter, yet their disparate physical context has motivated extensive debate regarding their stability. Here we show that the topological charge of…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-16 Nilo Mata-Cervera , Zhenyu Guo , Yijie Shen