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Topologically protected magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, half-skyrmions (merons) and their antiparticles, constitute tiny whirls in the magnetic order. They are promising candidates for information carriers in next-generation memory…

A new spin based logic device is proposed. It is comprised of a common free ferromagnetic layer separated by a tunnel junction from three inputs and one output with separate fixed layers. It has the functionality of a majority gate and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Dmitri E. Nikonov , George I. Bourianoff , Tahir Ghani

In the quest for post-CMOS technologies, ferromagnetic skyrmions and their anti-particles have shown great promise as topologically protected solitonic information carriers in memory-in-logic or neuromorphic devices. However, the presence…

In magnetic materials nontrivial spin textures may emerge owing to the competition among different types of magnetic interactions. Among such spin textures, chiral magnetic solitons represent topologically protected spin configurations with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Konstantinos Koumpouras , Dmitry Yudin , Christoph Adelmann , Anders Bergman , Olle Eriksson , Manuel Pereiro

Magnetic skyrmions, which are topological particle-like excitations in ferromagnets, have attracted a lot of attention recently. Skyrmionics is an attempt to use magnetic skyrmions as information carriers in next generation spintronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

It is shown here that a Kagom\'e magnet, with Heisenberg and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions causes non trivial topological and chiral magnetic properties. Chirality---that is, left or right handedness---is a very important concept in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-18 Manuel Pereiro , Dmitry Yudin , Jonathan Chico , Corina Etz , Olle Eriksson , Anders Bergman

Topological swirling spin textures, such as skyrmions and merons, have recently attracted much attention as a unique building block for high-density magnetic information devices. The controlled transformation among different types of such…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-05 H. Yoshimochi , R. Takagi , J. Ju , N. D. Khanh , H. Saito , H. Sagayama , H. Nakao , S. Itoh , Y. Tokura , T. Arima , S. Hayami , T. Nakajima , S. Seki

Topological magnon is a vibrant research field gaining more and more attention in the past few years. Among many theoretical proposals and limited experimental studies, ferromagnetic Kagome lattice emerges as one of the most elucidating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-16 H. Zhang , X. Feng , T. Heitmann , A. I. Kolesnikov , M. B. Stone , Y. -M. Lu , X. Ke

Antiferromagnets are promising materials for future spintronic applications due to their unique properties including zero stray fields, robustness versus external magnetic fields and ultrafast dynamics, which have attracted extensive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Xue Liang , Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Xiaoxi Liu , Lei Qiu , Guoping Zhao , Yan Zhou

Merons and skyrmions are classical topological solitons. However, they will become quantum mechanical objects when their sizes are of the order of nanometers. Recently, quantum computation based on nanoscale skyrmions was proposed. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-18 Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou , Motohiko Ezawa

We study topological defects in anisotropic ferromagnets with competing interactions near the Lifshitz point. We show that skyrmions and bi-merons are stable in a large part of the phase diagram. We calculate skyrmion-skyrmion and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Y. A. Kharkov , O. P. Sushkov , M. Mostovoy

The generation of topologically non-trivial magnetic configurations has been a pivotal topic in both basic and applied nanomagnetism research. Localized non-coplanar magnetic defects such as skyrmions or merons were found to interact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Reiner Brüning , Levente Rózsa , Roberto Lo Conte , André Kubetzka , Roland Wiesendanger , Kirsten von Bergmann

Soliton-based computing architectures have recently emerged as a promising avenue to overcome fundamental limitations of conventional information technologies, the von Neumann bottleneck. In this context, magnetic skyrmions have been widely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Moritz A. Goerzen , Tim Drevelow , Soumyajyoti Haldar , Hendrik Schrautzer , Stefan Heinze , Dongzhe Li

We point out certain symmetry induced constraints on topological order in Mott Insulators (quantum magnets with an odd number of spin $\tfrac{1}{2}$ per unit cell). We show, for example, that the double semion topological order is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-21 Michael P. Zaletel , Ashvin Vishwanath

Spin torque majority gates are modeled and several regimes of magnetization switching (some leading to failure) are discovered. The switching speed and noise margins are determined for STMGs and an adder based on it. With switching time of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Dmitri E. Nikonov , George I. Bourianoff , Tahir Ghani , Ian A. Young

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) interconnected via a continuous ferromagnetic free layer were fabricated for Spin Torque Majority Gate (STMG) logic. The MTJs are biased independently and show magnetoelectric response under spin transfer…

Magnetic bimeron composed of two merons is a topological counterpart of magnetic skyrmion in in-plane magnets, which can be used as the nonvolatile information carrier in spintronic devices. Here we analytically and numerically study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Laichuan Shen , Xiaoguang Li , Jing Xia , Lei Qiu , Xichao Zhang , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

We propose a realization of an antisymmetric spin-split band structure through magnetic phase transitions without spin-orbit coupling. It enables us to utilize for a variety of magnetic-order-driven cross-correlated and nonreciprocal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Satoru Hayami , Yuki Yanagi , Hiroaki Kusunose

Skyrmions are topologically protected entities in magnetic materials which have the potential to be used in spintronics for information storage and processing. However, Skyrmions in ferromagnets have some intrinsic difficulties which must…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Joseph Barker , Oleg A. Tretiakov

Nontrivial topological spin-textures, such as skyrmions, merons, bimerons, and skyrmioniums, are envisioned as robust building blocks for future memory and logic devices. Controllable transformations between these states require a…

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