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A combined approach using first-principles calculations and spin dynamics simulations is applied to study Ni/Ir$_{n}$/Pt(111) ($n=0,1,2$) films. The lowest-energy states are predicted to be spin-spirals but with a minute (of the order of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-23 P. C. Carvalho , I. P. Miranda , A. B. Klautau , A. Bergman , H. M. Petrilli

Skyrmions are twirling magnetic textures whose non-trivial topology leads to particle-like properties promising for information technology applications. Perhaps the most important aspect of interacting particles is their ability to form…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-17 Ping Huang , Marco Cantoni , Arnaud Magrez , Fabrizio Carbone , Henrik M. Rønnow

Magnetic skyrmions are nanometric swirling spin textures that exhibit remarkable stability at finite temperatures, making them promising candidates for spintronic applications. Achieving controllable stability and transitions between…

We predict the occurrence of metastable skyrmionic spin structures such as antiskyrmions and higher-order skyrmions in ultra-thin transition-metal films at surfaces using Monte Carlo simulations based on a spin Hamiltonian parametrized from…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-22 Bertrand Dupé , Christian N. Kruse , Tobias Dornheim , Stefan Heinze

Magnetic skyrmions form in chiral multilayers from the shrinking or fission of elongated stripe textures. Here we report an experimental and theoretical study of the temperature dependence of this stripe-to-skyrmion transition in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Xiaoye Chen , Edwin Chue , Jian Feng Kong , Hui Ru Tan , Hang Khume Tan , Anjan Soumyanarayanan

We study theoretically the dynamics of the spin textures, i.e., Skyrmion crystal (SkX) and spiral structure (SS), in two-dimensional helical magnets under external current. By numerically solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, it is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-15 Junichi Iwasaki , Masahito Mochizuki , Naoto Nagaosa

The recent experimental confirmation of a transformation between meron and skyrmion topological spin textures in the chiral magnet Co$_8$Zn$_9$Mn$_3$ [S.-Z. Lin et al., Phys. Rev. B 91, 224407 (2015); X. Z. Yu et al., Nature 564, 95 (2018)]…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-05 Zhentao Wang , Ying Su , Shi-Zeng Lin , Cristian D. Batista

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in chiral magnets in the presence of a spin polarized current. The motion of skyrmions in the ferromagnetic background excites spin waves and contributes to additional damping. At a large current, the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-15 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

In the present research, we demonstrate the usage of plasmonic effects in thin film structures to control magnetic topological textures, specifically skyrmions and skyrmioniums. We investigate numerically the generation and alteration of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 W. Al Saidi , R. Sbiaa , Y. Dusch , N. Tiercelin

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-sized topologically protected spin textures with particle-like properties. They can form lattices perpendicular to the magnetic field and the orientation of these skyrmion lattices with respect to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 L. J. Bannenberg , F. Qian , R. M. Dalgliesh , N. Martin , G. Chaboussant , M. Schmidt , D. L. Schlagel , T. A. Lograsso , H. Wilhelm , C. Pappas

External magnetic field, temperature, and spin-polarized current are usually employed to create and control nanoscale vortex-like spin configurations such as magnetic skyrmions. Although these methods have proven successful, they are not…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-25 Phuong-Vu Ong , Tae-Hoon Kim , Haijun Zhao , Brandt A. Jensen , Lin Zhou , Liqin Ke

The all-optical control of magnetization at room temperature broadens the scope of applications of spin degrees-of-freedom in data storage, spintronics, and quantum computing. Topological magnetic spin structures, such as skyrmions, are of…

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like topological excitations recently discovered in chiral magnets. Their small size, topological protection and the ease with which they can be manipulated by electric currents generated much interest in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 A. O. Leonov , M. Mostovoy

The nature of the skyrmion-crystal (SkX) formation and various multiple-$q$ phases encompassing the SkX phase are investigated by extensive Monte Carlo simulations on the frustrated $J_1$-$J_3$ triangular-lattice Heisenberg model with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-26 Hikaru Kawamura

Topologically nontrivial magnetic textures such as skyrmions offer promising opportunities for spintronic applications. In recent years, it has been shown that the magnetic properties of layered materials can be affected by depositing…

The tensile strain is a promising tool for creation and manipulation of magnetic solitonic textures in the chiral helimagnets via tunable control of magnetic anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Here, by using the in-situ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Victor Ukleev , Yuichi Yamasaki , Oleg Utesov , Kiyou Shibata , Naoya Kanazawa , Nicolas Jaouen , Yoshinori Tokura , Taka-hisa Arima

Skyrmions, topologically stable spin textures, are of great interest for new generations of spintronic devices. In general, the stabilization of skyrmions has been achieved in systems with broken inversion symmetry, where the asymmetric…

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…

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…

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