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Selective control of individual spin qubits is needed for scalable quantum computing based on spin states. Achieving high-fidelity in both single and two-qubit gates, essential components of universal quantum computers, necessitates highly…

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We develop a quantum theory of magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions in a spin-1/2 Heisenberg magnet with frustrating next-nearest neighbor interactions. Using exact diagonalization we show numerically that a quantum skyrmion exists as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-01 Vivek Lohani , Ciarán Hickey , Jan Masell , Achim Rosch

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

We propose a new scalable platform for quantum computing (QC) -- an array of optically trapped symmetric-top molecules (STMs) of the alkaline earth monomethoxide (MOCH$_3$) family. Individual STMs form qubits, and the system is readily…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Phelan Yu , Lawrence W. Cheuk , Ivan Kozyryev , John M. Doyle

Controlled movement of nano-scale stable magnetic objects has been proposed as the foundation for a new generation of magnetic storage devices. Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like spin textures stabilized by their topology are particularly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-27 Yongkang Luo , Shizeng Lin , M. Leroux , N. Wakeham , D. M. Fobes , E. D. Bauer , J. B. Betts , J. D. Thompson , A. Migliori , M. Janoschek , Boris Maiorov

Magnetic skyrmions, due to their topological stability and high mobility, are strong candidates for information carriers in spintronic devices. To advance their practical applications, a detailed understanding of their nucleation and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Tamali Mukherjee , V Satya Narayana Murthy , Banasree Sadhukhan

Quantum computers have the potential to efficiently solve problems in logistics, drug and material design, finance, and cybersecurity. However, millions of qubits will be necessary for correcting inevitable errors in quantum operations. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Andre Saraiva , Wee Han Lim , Chih Hwan Yang , Christopher C. Escott , Arne Laucht , Andrew S. Dzurak

Inspired by the human brain, there is a strong effort to find alternative models of information processing capable of imitating the high energy efficiency of neuromorphic information processing. One possible realization of cognitive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-07 Diana Prychynenko , Matthias Sitte , Kai Litzius , Benjamin Krüger , George Bourianoff , Mathias Kläui , Jairo Sinova , Karin Everschor-Sitte

We study the creation of quantum skyrmions in quadratic nanoscopic lattices of quantum spins coupled by Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya and exchange interactions. We numerically show that different kinds of quantum skyrmions, characterized by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Pia Siegl , Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Martin Stier , Michael Thorwart , Thore Posske

Magnetic skyrmions are exciting candidates for energy-efficient computing due to their non-volatility, detectability,and mobility. A recent proposal within the paradigm of reversible computing enables large-scale circuits composed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Benjamin W. Walker , Can Cui , Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Jean Anne C. Incorvia , Xuan Hu , Joseph S. Friedman

Using atomistic simulations, we show that new types of skyrmion states called skyrmion molecular crystals and skyrmion superlattices can be realized on triangular substrates when there are two or three skyrmions per substrate minimum. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas , C. Reichhardt

Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture stabilized by the protection due to their topology. In most cases they are induced by chiral interactions between atomic spins existing in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-21 Albert Fert , Nicolas Reyren , Vincent Cros

We present a blueprint for building a fault-tolerant quantum computer using the spin states of electrons on the surface of liquid helium. We propose to use ferromagnetic micropillars to trap single electrons on top of them and to generate a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Erika Kawakami , Jiabao Chen , Mónica Benito , Denis Konstantinov

Many problems intractable on classical devices could be solved by algorithms explicitly based on quantum mechanical laws, i.e. exploiting quantum information processing. As a result, increasing efforts from different fields are nowadays…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Alessandro Chiesa , Emilio Macaluso , Stefano Carretta

The implementation of a spin qubit in a quantum ring occupied by one or a few electrons is proposed. Quantum bit involves the Zeeman sublevels of the highest occupied orbital. Such a qubit can be initialized, addressed, manipulated, read…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-07 Elzbieta Zipper , Marcin Kurpas , Janusz Sadowski , Maciej M. Maska

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

Logic gates based on magnetic elements are promising candidates for the logic-in-memory applications with nonvolatile data retention, near-zero leakage and scalability. In such spin-based logic device, however, the multi-strip structure and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-24 Dongxing Yu , Hongxin Yang , Mairbek Chshiev , Albert Fert

Particle-like chiral magnetic skyrmions can flow in nanotracks and behave like chiral fluids. Using interacting flows to perform logical operations is an important topic in microfluidics and nanofluidics. Here, we report a basic nanofluidic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Yan Zhou , Guoping Zhao , Xiaoxi Liu , Yongbing Xu , Masahito Mochizuki

Traditionally, skyrmions are treated as continuum magnetic textures of classical spins with a well-defined topological skyrmion number. Owing to their topological protection, skyrmions have attracted great interest as building blocks in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-24 Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø

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