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Implementation of skyrmion based energy efficient and high-density data storage devices requires aggressive scaling of skyrmion size. Ferrimagnetic materials are considered to be a suitable platform for this purpose due to their low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Md Mahadi Rajib , Walid Al Misba , Dhritiman Bhattacharya , Jayasimha Atulasimha

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures that have recently been observed at room temperature (RT) in multilayer thin films. Their topological stability should enable high scalability in confined geometries - a sought-after attribute…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Pin Ho , Anthony K. C. Tan , S. Goolaup , A. L. Gonzalez Oyarce , M. Raju , L. S. Huang , Anjan Soumyanarayanan , C. Panagopoulos

Skyrmions are emerging topological spin structures that are potentially revolutionary for future data storage and spintronics applications. The existence and stability of skyrmions in magnetic materials is usually associated to the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 R. L. Novak , F. Garcia , E. R. P. Novais , J. P. Sinnecker , A. P. Guimarães

The potential for application of magnetic skyrmions in high density storage devices provides a strong drive to investigate and exploit their stability and manipulability. Through a three-dimensional micromagnetic hysteresis study, we…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected stable magnetization configurations, which are expected to be a promising candidate as information carrier, while defect is inevitable and plays an important role on the stabilization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-11 Chengkun Song , Chendong Jin , Haiyan Xia , Yunxu Ma , Jianing Wang , Jianbo Wang , Qingfang Liu

We study the geometrical conditions for stabilizing magnetic skyrmions in cylindrical nanostrips and nanotubes of ferromagnetic materials with chiral interactions. We obtain the low-temperature equilibrium state of the system implementing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-28 Dimitris Kechrakos , Lida Tzannetou , Aristotelis Patsopoulos

Skyrmions are nanometric spin whirls that can be stabilized in magnets lacking inversion symmetry. The properties of isolated skyrmions embedded in a ferromagnetic background have been intensively studied. We show that single skyrmions and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-02 Jan Müller , Jayaraman Rajeswari , Ping Huang , Yoshie Murooka , Henrik M. Rønnow , Fabrizio Carbone , Achim Rosch

Chiral magnets are an emerging class of topological matter harbouring localized and topologically protected vortex-like magnetic textures called skyrmions, which are currently under intense scrutiny as a new entity for information storage…

Magnetic skyrmions are nanometric spin textures of outstanding potential for spintronic applications due to unique features governed by their non-trivial topology. It is well known that skyrmions of definite chirality are stabilized by the…

Controlled movement of nano-scale stable magnetic objects has been proposed as the foundation for a new generation of magnetic storage devices. Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like spin textures stabilized by their topology are particularly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-27 Yongkang Luo , Shizeng Lin , M. Leroux , N. Wakeham , D. M. Fobes , E. D. Bauer , J. B. Betts , J. D. Thompson , A. Migliori , M. Janoschek , Boris Maiorov

Skyrmions, topologically protected vortex-like nanometric spin textures in magnets, have been attracting increasing attention for emergent electromagnetic responses and possible technological applications for spintronics. In particular,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Y. Tokunaga , X. Z. Yu , J. S. White , H. M. Rønnow , D. Morikawa , Y. Taguchi , Y. Tokura

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…

Magnetic skyrmions have garnered attention for their potential roles in spintronic applications, such as information carriers in computation, data storage, and nano-oscillators due to their small size, topological stability, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Rajgowrav Cheenikundil , Zhiwei Lu , Manuel Pereiro , Anna Delin , Danny Thonig

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…

The dynamical properties of skyrmions can be exploited to build devices with new functionalities. Here, we first investigate a skyrmion-based ring-shaped device by means of micromagnetic simulations and Thiele equation. We subsequently show…

We investigate the interplay of geometric symmetry, size, and external magnetic fields in regulating individual skyrmion states within magnetic nanostructures. By analyzing nanodisks, nanosquares, and nanorectangles, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 J. Y. Wang , C. X. Zhao , Y. F. Duan , H. M. Dong

Magnetic skyrmions are stable topological solitons with complex non-coplanar spin structures. Their nanoscopic size and the low electric currents required to initiate and control their motion has opened a new field of research, skyrmionics,…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stabilized quasi-particles and are promising candidates for energy-efficient applications, such as storage but also logic and sensing. Here we present a new concept for a multi-turn sensor-counter device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Kilian Leutner , Thomas Brian Winkler , Johannes Güttinger , Hans Fangohr , Mathias Kläui

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale windings of the spin configuration that hold great promise for technology due to their topology-related properties and extremely reduced sizes. After the recent observation at room temperature of sub-100 nm…

Solitonic magnetic excitations such as domain walls and, specifically, skyrmionics enable the possibility of compact, high density, ultrafast,all-electronic, low-energy devices, which is the basis for the emerging area of skyrmionics. The…