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Skyrmions can be driven by spin-orbit torques as a result of the spin Hall effect. Here we model an additional contribution in ultra-thin multilayers, arising from the spin accumulation at heavy metal / ferromagnetic interfaces and observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 C. R. MacKinnon , S. Lepadatu , T. Mercer , P. Bissell

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures in ferromagnetic materials that hold great promise for both classical information storage and processing, as well as for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Realizing practical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 N. I. Simchuck , I. S. Burmistrov , S. S. Apostoloff

We study the stabilization and electrical manipulation of skyrmions in magnetic ultrathin films in the absence of an applied magnetic field. We show that this requires an increased magnetic anisotropy, controlled by the sample thickness, as…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-06 Sougata Mallick , Sujit Panigrahy , Gajanan Pradhan , Stanislas Rohart

We investigate topological Hall effects in a metallic antiferromagnetic (AFM) thin film and/or at the interface of an AFM insulator-normal metal bilayer with a single skyrmion in the diffusive regime. To determine the spin and charge Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Amir N. Zarezad , Józef Barnaś , Anna Dyrdał , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Micromagnetic simulations have been performed to investigate the suppression of the skyrmion Hall effect in nanotracks with their magnetic properties strategically modified. In particular, we study two categories of magnetically modified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-27 D. Toscano , J. P. A. Mendonça , A. L. S. Miranda , C. I. L. de Araujo , F. Sato , P. Z. Coura , S. A. Leonel

We present a comprehensive study of current-driven dynamics, transformations, and instabilities of skyrmioniums in chiral magnetic films, considering both isolated objects and collective states forming skyrmionium-based meta-matter. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Kaito Nakamura , Yuka Kotorii , Andrey O. Leonov

Magnetic skyrmions are highly promising candidates for future spintronic applications such as skyrmion racetrack memories and logic devices. They exhibit exotic and complex dynamics governed by topology and are less influenced by defects,…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmions are envisioned as ideal localized topological magnetic bits in future information technologies. In contrast to ferromagnetic (FM) skyrmions, they are immune to the skyrmion Hall effect, might offer…

Exotic spin textures viz. chiral domain wall, vortices, skyrmion, skyrmionium, etc. have recently emerged as active field of research because of their potential applications in high density data storage technology and logic gate computing.…

Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy is used to identify the magnetic state of different thin films on a Re(0001) substrate, which becomes superconducting below 1.7 K. All magnetic films contain an Fe/Ir interface, which is known to…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-12 André Kubetzka , Jan M. Bürger , Roland Wiesendanger , Kirsten von Bergmann

Materials hosting magnetic skyrmions at room temperature could enable new computing architectures as well as compact and energetically efficient magnetic storage such as racetrack memories. In a racetrack device, information is coded by the…

Electrical detection of topological magnetic textures such as skyrmions is currently limited to conducting materials. While magnetic insulators offer key advantages for skyrmion technologies with high speed and low loss, they have not yet…

It is widely believed that the skyrmion Hall effect is absent in antiferromagnets because of the vanishing topological charge. However, the Aharonov-Casher theory indicates the possibility of topological effects for neutral particles. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 Zhejunyu Jin , Zhaozhuo Zeng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Recent advances in the physics of current-driven antiferromagnetic skyrmions have observed the absence of a Magnus force. We outline the symmetry reasons for this phenomenon, and show that this cancellation will fail in the case of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Matthew W. Daniels , Weichao Yu , Ran Cheng , Jiang Xiao , Di Xiao

A theoretical study of the current-driven dynamics of magnetic skyrmions in disordered perpendicularly-magnetized ultrathin films is presented. The disorder is simulated as a granular structure in which the local anisotropy varies randomly…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-22 Joo-Von Kim , Myoung-Woo Yoo

Magnetic bimerons are potential information carriers in spintronic devices. Bimerons, topologically equivalent to skyrmions, manifest in chiral magnetic systems with in-plane magnetization due to anisotropies or external magnetic fields.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Mario Castro , David Gálvez , Sebastián Castillo , Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos , Álvaro S. Núñez , Sebastián Allende

To realize future spintronic applications with magnetic skyrmions -- topologically nontrivial swirling spin structures -- it is essential to achieve efficient writing and deleting capabilities of these quasi-particles. Electric-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-29 Souvik Paul , Stefan Heinze

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic textures that hold great promise as nanoscale bits of information in memory and logic devices. Although room-temperature ferromagnetic skyrmions and their current-induced manipulation have been…

We consider current-driven motion of magnetic skyrmions in granular magnetic films. The study uses micromagnetic modeling and phenomenological analysis based on the Thiele formalism. Remarkably, disorder enhances the effective skyrmion Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 A. Salimath , A. Abbout , A. Brataas , A. Manchon

Magnetic skyrmions are promising building blocks for future spintronic devices. However, the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE) remains an obstacle for practical applications based on the in-line transport of skyrmions. Here, we numerically study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Lan Bo , Xichao Zhang , Masahito Mochizuki , Xuefeng Zhang