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When a magnon passes through two-dimensional magnetic textures, it will experience a fictitious magnetic field originating from the $3\times 3$ skew-symmetric gauge fields. To date, only one of the three independent components of the gauge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Zhejunyu Jin , Xianglong Yao , Zhenyu Wang , H. Y. Yuan , Zhaozhuo Zeng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Electron transport combined with magnetism has gained more attention to the spintronics community in the last few decades. Among them, the topological Hall effect (THE), which arises due to the emergent magnetic field of a non-trivial…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-22 Brindaban Ojha , Shaktiranjan Mohanty , Bhuvneshwari Sharma , Subhankar Bedanta

Magnetic skyrmions have attracted enormous research interest since their discovery a decade ago. The non-trivial real-space topology of these nano-whirls leads to fundamentally interesting and technologically relevant consequences - the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig , Oleg A. Tretiakov

We investigate the skyrmion formation process in nano-structured FeGe Hall-bar devices by measurements of topological Hall effect, which extracts the winding number of a spin texture as an emergent magnetic field. Step-wise profiles of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 N. Kanazawa , M. Kubota , A. Tsukazaki , Y. Kozuka , K. S. Takahashi , M. Kawasaki , M. Ichikawa , F. Kagawa , Y. Tokura

It is well known that skyrmions can be driven using spin-orbit torques due to the spin-Hall effect. Here we show an additional contribution in multilayered stacks arises from vertical spin currents due to inter-layer diffusion of a spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-25 Serban Lepadatu

Magnetic skyrmions are quasiparticle configurations in a magnetic film that can act as information carrying bits for ultrasmall, all-electronic nonvolatile memory. The skyrmions can be nucleated and driven by spin-orbit torque from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Hamed Vakili , Yunkun Xie , Avik W. Ghosh

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin textures touted as next-generation computing elements. When subjected to lateral currents, skyrmions move at considerable speeds. Their topological charge results in an additional transverse deflection…

Magnetic skyrmions, as a whirling spin texture with axisymmetry, cannot be propelled by a uniform magnetic field. Therefore, reported skyrmion motions have been induced using other sorts of stimuli; typically, electric currents in magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Xiangjun Xing , Yan Zhou

B20 phase magnetic materials, such as FeGe, have been of significant interests in recent years because they enable magnetic skyrmions, which can potentially lead to low energy cost spintronic applications. One major effort in this emerging…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-18 J. C. Gallagher , K. Y. Meng , J. T. Brangham , H. L. Wang , B. D. Esser , D. W. McComb , F. Y. Yang

A moving magnetic skyrmion exhibits transverse deflection. This so-called skyrmion Hall effect has been explained by the Thiele equation. Here, we provide an alternative interpretation of the skyrmion Hall effect based on the dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Kyoung-Woong Moon , Jungbum Yoon , Changsoo Kim , Jae-Hun Sim , Se Kwon Kim , Soong-Geun Je , Chanyong Hwang

Synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) skyrmions have emerged as promising candidates for next-generation high-speed and highly integrated spintronic devices, owing to their exceptional properties such as high driving velocity, nanoscale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Xinbao Geng , Guanqi Li , Zhongxiang Zhang , Wenjing Hu , Wenjing Zhong , Xiaoming Xiong , Yongbing Xu , Zhendong Chen , Junlin Wang , Xiangyu Zheng , Jing Wu

Magnetic skyrmions can be driven by an applied spin-polarized electron current which exerts a spin-transfer torque on the localized spins constituting the skyrmion. However, the longitudinal dynamics is plagued by the skyrmion Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 J. Plettenberg , M. Stier , M. Thorwart

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable spin swirling particle like entities which are appealing for next generation spintronic devices. The expected low critical current density for the motion of skyrmions makes them potential…

The topological Hall effect is a hallmark of topologically non-trivial magnetic textures such as magnetic skyrmions. It quantifies the transverse electric current that is generated once an electric field is applied and occurs as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Börge Göbel , Lennart Schimpf , Ingrid Mertig

Magnetic skyrmionium is a skyrmion-like spin texture with nanoscale size and high mobility. It is a topologically trivial but dynamically stable structure, which can be used as a non-volatile information carrier for next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Xue Liang , Xichao Zhang , Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Motohiko Ezawa , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions, topologically stabilized chiral magnetic textures with particle-like properties have so far primarily been studied statically. Here, we experimentally investigate the dynamics of skyrmion ensembles in metallic thin film…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Klaus Raab , Maurice Schmitt , Maarten A. Brems , Jan Rothörl , Fabian Kammerbauer , Sachin Krishnia , Mathias Kläui , Peter Virnau

Despite significant advances in the last decade regarding the room temperature stabilization of skyrmions or their current induced dynamics, the impact of local material inhomogeneities still remains an important issue that impedes to reach…

Current-driven dynamics of spin textures plays a pivotal role in potential applications for electronic devices. While two-dimensional magnetic skyrmions with topologically nontrivial spin textures have garnered significant interest, their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-25 Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Spin Hall effect plays an essential role in generating spin current from the injected charge current, following the Dyakonov-Perel rule that the directions of charge flow, spin flow and spin polarization are mutually perpendicular to each…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Po-Hung Lin , Po-Wei Lee , Yu-Hsuan Lin , Bo-Yuan Yang , Vinod Kumar , Hsiu-Hau Lin , Chih-Huang Lai

Domain-wall skyrmions are magnetic solitons embedded in a domain wall that are topologically equivalent to skyrmions. Here, we theoretically study antiferromagnetic domain-wall skyrmions and their current-driven motion within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Wooyon Kim , Jun Seok Seo , Se Kwon Kim