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The dynamics and stability of magnetic skyrmions within a nano-track with multiple confinements are investigated. Firstly, the motion of a single skyrmion under spin transfer torque (STT) is studied. By accurately adjusting the current…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 W. Al Saidi , R. Sbiaa , S. Al Risi , F. Al Shanfari , N. Tiercelin , Y. Dusch

We show that skyrmions on the surface of a magnetic topological insulator may experience an attractive interaction that leads to the formation of a skyrmion-skyrmion bound state. This is in contrast to the case of skyrmions in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Kunal L. Tiwari , J. Lavoie , T. Pereg-Barnea , W. A. Coish

We construct discrete analogs of Skyrmions in nonlinear dynamical lattices. The Skyrmion is built as a vortex soliton of a complex field, coupled to a dark radial soliton of a real field. Adjusting the Skyrmion ansatz to the lattice setting…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-05-11 P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , D. J. Frantzeskakis , B. A. Malomed , F. K. Diakonos

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures with rich physics and great potential for unconventional computing. Typically, skyrmions form in bulk crystals with reduced symmetry or ultrathin film multilayers involving heavy metals. Here, we…

A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic texture, could be an ideal element for ultra-dense magnetic memories. Here, we review recent progress in the field of skyrmionics, which is concerned with studies of tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Alexey A. Kovalev , Shane Sandhoefner

The quantum anomalous Hall effect has been theoretically predicted and experimentally verified in magnetic topological insulators. In addition, the surface states of these materials exhibit a hedgehog-like "spin" texture in momentum space.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Narayan Mohanta , Arno P. Kampf , Thilo Kopp

We unveil novel spin textures in an itinerant fermion model on a frustrated triangular lattice in the limit of low electronic density. Using hybrid Monte Carlo simulations on finite clusters we identify two type of nanoscale spin textures…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-04 Sahinur Reja , Jeroen van den Brink , Sanjeev Kumar

Magnetic solitons have recently attracted significant attention due to their intricate physical properties and potential applications in information processing. The majority of the studies in this field, however, are focused on a particular…

Magnetic skyrmions emerge as promising quasi-particles for encoding information in nextgeneration spintronic devices. Their innate flexibility in shape is essential for the applications although they were often ideally treated as rigid…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-09 Zhen-Yu Tan , Ji-Pei Chen , Yu-Ke Shi , Yuan Chen , Ming-Hui Qin , Xing-Sen Gao , Jun-Ming Liu

Magnetic bimerons are topologically nontrivial spin textures in in-plane easy-axis magnets, which can be used as particle-like information carriers. Here, we report a theoretical study on the nonreciprocal dynamics of asymmetrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Zehan Chen , Xiaoguang Li , Xichao Zhang , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Qiming Shao , Guoping Zhao , Xiaoxi Liu , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

The prediction of magnetic skyrmions being used to change the way we store and process data has led to materials with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction coming into the focus of intensive research. So far, studies have looked mostly at…

The intrinsic magnetism observed in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials provides a unique opportunity for exploring the 2D topological magnetic textures, in particular skyrmionic magnetic textures (SMTs) including skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Xiaoyan Yao , Di Hu , Shuai Dong

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-scale magnetic whirls that can be driven by currents via spin torques. They are promising candidates for spintronic devices such as the racetrack memory, where a motion along the uniform current is typically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ismael Ribeiro de Assis , Ingrid Mertig , Börge Göbel

Skyrmions--topologically protected nanoscale spin textures with vortex-like configurations--hold transformative potential for ultra-dense data storage, spintronics and quantum computing. However, their practical utility is challenged by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Lei Liu , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Using both atomistic and particle-based simulations, we investigate the current-driven dynamics of skyrmions on two-dimensional periodic substrates when there are multiple skyrmions per substrate minimum. At zero drive, the system forms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , N. P. Vizarim , P. A. Venegas

The recent discovery of materials hosting persistent spin texture (PST) opens an avenue for the realization of energy-saving spintronics since they support an extraordinarily long spin lifetime. However, the stability of the PST is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-21 Moh. Adhib Ulil Absor , Iman Santoso

We predict from first-principles calculations a novel structure of stanene with dumbbell units (DB), and show that it is a two-dimensional topological insulator with inverted band gap which can be tuned by compressive strain. Furthermore,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Peizhe Tang , Pengcheng Chen , Wendong Cao , Huaqing Huang , Seymur Cahangirov , Lede Xian , Yong Xu , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Wenhui Duan , Angel Rubio

Synthetic antiferromagnets have great potential as skyrmion carriers in which new properties are expected for these spin textures, owing to changed magnetostatics and the absence of net topological charge. Here we numerically simulate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Eloi Haltz , Christopher E. A. Barker , Christopher H. Marrows

Three-dimensional (3D) topological spin textures emerge as promising quasi-particles for encoding information in future spintronic devices. The third dimension provides more malleability regarding their magnetic properties as well as more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Matthieu Grelier , Florian Godel , Aymeric Vecchiola , Sophie Collin , Karim Bouzehouane , Albert Fert , Vincent Cros , Nicolas Reyren

Magnetic skyrmion, a topological magnetic domain with complex non-coplanar spin texture, appears a disk-like structure in two dimensions. Exploring three-dimensional spin texture and related chirality switching has drawn enormous interests…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-26 Yuan Yao , Bei Ding , Jinjing Liang , Hang Li , Xi Shen , Richeng Yu , Wenhong Wang