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We investigate the skyrmion formation process in nano-structured FeGe Hall-bar devices by measurements of topological Hall effect, which extracts the winding number of a spin texture as an emergent magnetic field. Step-wise profiles of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 N. Kanazawa , M. Kubota , A. Tsukazaki , Y. Kozuka , K. S. Takahashi , M. Kawasaki , M. Ichikawa , F. Kagawa , Y. Tokura

Skyrmions are nanoscale spin configurations with topological properties that hold great promise for spintronic devices. Here, we establish their N\'eel texture, helicity, and size in Ir/Fe/Co/Pt multilayer films by constructing a multipole…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected nanoscale objects, which are promising building blocks for novel magnetic and spintronic devices. Here, we investigate the dynamics of a skyrmion driven by a spin wave in a magnetic nanowire.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-28 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Dun Xiao , G. P. Zhao , Yaowen Liu , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions are quasiparticles with non-trivial topology, envisioned to play a key role in next-generation data technology while simultaneously attracting fundamental research interest due to their emerging topological charge. In…

High tunability of two dimensional magnetic materials (by strain, gating, heterostructuring or otherwise) provides unique conditions for studying versatile magnetic properties and controlling emergent magnetic phases. Expanding the scope of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Raí M. Menezes , Clécio C. de Souza Silva , Milorad V. Milošević

The evolution of skyrmion crystal encapsulates skyrmion critical behaviors, such as nucleation, deformation and annihilation. Here, we achieve a tunable evolution of artificial skyrmion crystal in nanostructured synthetic antiferromagnet…

Magnetic skyrmion, vortex-like swirling topologically stable spin configurations, is appealing as information carrier for future nanoelectronics, owing to the stability, small size and extremely low driving current density. One of the most…

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

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 skyrmions are promising for building next-generation magnetic memories and spintronic devices due to their stability, small size and the extremely low currents needed to move them. In particular, skyrmion-based racetrack memory is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-14 Xichao Zhang , G. P. Zhao , Hans Fangohr , J. Ping Liu , W. X. Xia , J. Xia , F. J. Morvan

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic spin structures exhibiting particle-like behaviour. They are of strong interest from a fundamental viewpoint and for application, where they have potential to act as information carriers in future…

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 have emerged as promising elements for encoding information towards biomimetic computing applications due to their pseudoparticle nature and efficient coupling to spin currents. A key hindrance for skyrmionic devices is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-13 Xiaoye Chen , Tommy Tai , Hui Ru Tan , Hang Khume Tan , Royston Lim , Pin Ho , Anjan Soumyanarayanan

This paper explores the energy landscape of ferromagnetic multilayer heterostructures that feature magnetic skyrmions -- tiny whirls of spins with non-trivial topology -- in each magnetic layer. Such magnetic heterostructures have been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-03 N. J. Dubicki , V. V. Slastikov , A. Bernand-Mantel , C. B. Muratov

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like chiral spin textures found in a magnetic film with out-of-planeanisotropy and are considered to be potential candidates as information carriers in next generationdata storage devices. Despite intense…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 S. Saha , M. Zelent , S. Finizio , M. Mruczkiewicz , S. Tacchi , A. K. Suszka , S. Wintz , N. S. Bingham , J. Raabe , M. Krawczyk , L. J. Heyderman

A target skyrmion is a flux-closed spin texture that has two-fold degeneracy and is promising as a binary state in next generation universal memories. Although its formation in nanopatterned chiral magnets has been predicted, its…

Skyrmions are topological structures characterized by a winding vectorial configuration that provides a quantized topological charge. In magnetic materials, skyrmions are localized spin textures that exhibit unique stability and mobility…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-28 Xingyu Yang , Ye Mou , Bruno Gallas , Sébastien Bidault , Mathieu Mivelle

Improvements in computing performance have significantly slowed down over the past few years owing to the intrinsic limitations of computing hardware. However, the demand for data computing has increased exponentially. To solve this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Sai Li , Wang Kang , Xichao Zhang , Tianxiao Nie , Yan Zhou , Kang L. Wang , Weisheng Zhao

Skyrmions are important in topological quantum field theory for being soliton solutions of a nonlinear sigma model and in information technology for their attractive applications. Skyrmions are believed to be circular and stripy spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 X. R. Wang , X. C. Hu , H. T. Wu

Diameter-modulated nanowires offer an important paradigm to design the magnetization response of 3D magnetic nanostructures by engineering the domain wall pinning. With the aim to understand its nature and to control the process, we analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 Jose A. Fernandez-Roldan , Rafael P. del Real , Cristina Bran , Manuel Vazquez , Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko

Magnetic skyrmions have attracted great research interest in recent years due to their exotic physical properties, scientific merit and potential applications in modern technology. Here, we apply a quantum computational method to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Zhaosen Liu , Tiantian Huan , Hou Ian