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We investigate the formation and stability of the skyrmion crystal phase in antiferromagnetic thin films subjected to fieldlike torques such as, e.g., those induced by an electric current in CuMnAs and Mn$_{2}$Au via the inverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Ricardo Zarzuela , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Non-centrosymmetric magnetic materials are a promising platform for stabilizing chiral spin textures, such as skyrmions and cycloidal magnetic states. This is particularly true in epitaxial thin film geometries, where strain and interface…

We theoretically investigate the effects of time-dependent electromagnetic fields on frustrated magnets with the spatial inversion symmetry. Two types of external-field setups are considered: One is a circularly polarized electromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-18 Tatsuya Shirato , Ryota Yambe , Satoru Hayami

A skyrmion crystal (SkX) has attracted much attention in condensed matter physics, since topologically nontrivial structures induce fascinating physical phenomena. The SkXs have been experimentally observed in a variety of materials, where…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-12 Ryota Yambe , Satoru Hayami

Understanding the spin-wave excitations of chiral magnetic order, such as the skyrmion crystal (SkX), is of fundamental interest to confirm such exotic magnetic order. The SkX is realized by competing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-14 Narayan Mohanta , Andrew D. Christianson , Satoshi Okamoto , Elbio Dagotto

We have calculated the phase diagrams of one--component fluids made of five types of biaxial particles differing in their cross sections. The orientation of the principal particle axis is fixed in space, while the second axis is allowed to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuri Martinez-Raton , Szabolcs Varga , Enrique Velasco

Dispersions of rodlike colloidal particles exhibit a plethora of liquid crystalline states, including nematic, smectic A, smectic B, and columnar phases. This phase behavior can be explained by presuming the predominance of hard-core volume…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-01 Andrii Repula , Mariana Oshima Menegon , Cheng Wu , Paul van der Schoot , Eric Grelet

We study inter-skyrmion interactions and stable spin configurations in a 2D chiral magnet with in-plane anisotropies of a tilted magnetic field and the magneto-crystalline anisotropy on a (011) thin film. We find that in both cases a small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Mai Kameda , Rio Koyama , Takuro Nakajima , Yuki Kawaguchi

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically-protected spin textures with attractive properties suitable for high-density and low-power spintronic device applications. Much effort has been dedicated to understanding the dynamical behaviours of the…

Magnetic skyrmions, topologically stable spin textures, have attracted significant interest due to their potential applications in information storage and processing. They are typically stabilized by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-05 A. Vela Wac , F. A. Gómez Albarracín , D. C. Cabra

Magnetic skyrmions, topological spin textures observed in chiral magnets, have attracted huge interest due to their applications in the field of spintronics. In this work we study the stability of circular isolated skyrmions in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-06 S. A. Osorio , M. B. Sturla , H. D. Rosales , D. C. Cabra

Skyrmions are topological structures defined by a winding vector configuration that yields a quantized topological charge. In magnetic materials, skyrmions manifest as stable, mobile spin textures, positioning them at the forefront of…

In the present work, using micromagnetic simulation, we show that the magnetic coupling effect plays a very important role in the process of creation of skyrmions in a coupled system of spin-torque nano-oscillators (STNO). First, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 H. Vigo-Cotrina , A. P. Guimarães

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures which have attracted intense research for their fundamentally novel physics and potential applications as spintronic information carriers. The stability which makes them so potentially useful is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-07 William S. Parker , Jacques A. Reddinger , Benjamin J. McMorran

We investigate theoretically the equilibrium configurations of many magnetic skyrmions interacting with many superconducting vortices in a superconductor-chiral magnet bilayer. We show that miscible mixtures of vortices and skyrmions in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-04 José F. Neto , Clécio C. de Souza Silva

Nanoscale chiral skyrmions in noncentrosymmetric helimagnets are promising binary state variables in high-density, low-energy nonvolatile memory. Skyrmions are ubiquitous as an ordered, single-domain lattice phase, which makes it difficult…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 S. L. Zhang , A. Bauer , H. Berger , C. Pfleiderer , G. van der Laan , T. Hesjedal

Spin current offers a promising route toward energy-efficient and high-speed information processing. Developing efficient methods for their generation remains a central challenge in spintronics. Here, we investigate spin current generation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Aoi Kajihara , Shun Okumura , Yukitoshi Motome

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…

Since the 1950s Heisenberg and others have attempted to explain the appearance of countable particles in quantum field theory in terms of stable localized field configurations. As an exception Skyrme's model succeeded to describe nuclear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 U. K. Roessler , A. N. Bogdanov , C. Pfleiderer

Topological particle-like excitations such as skyrmions and hopfions offer rich opportunities for spintronic and photonic applications. While skyrmions have been extensively studied, the stabilization mechanisms and phase behavior of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Andrey O. Leonov , Takayuki Shigenaga