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To enable functional skyrmion based spintronic devices, the controllable generation and manipulation of skyrmions is essential. While the generation of skyrmions by using a magnetic geometrical constriction has already been demonstrated,…

We examine the dynamics of skyrmions in systems with a region of strong pinning coexisting with a pin free region, where the equilibrium state has a uniform skyrmion density. Under an applied drive, skyrmions accumulate in the pin free…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Monolayer graphene under a strong perpendicular field exhibit quantum Hall ferromagnetism with spontaneously broken spin and valley symmetry. The approximate SU(4) spin/valley symmetry is broken by small lattice scale effects in the central…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-18 Thierry Jolicoeur , Bradraj Pandey

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures that have recently been observed at room temperature (RT) in multilayer thin films. Their topological stability should enable high scalability in confined geometries - a sought-after attribute…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Pin Ho , Anthony K. C. Tan , S. Goolaup , A. L. Gonzalez Oyarce , M. Raju , L. S. Huang , Anjan Soumyanarayanan , C. Panagopoulos

Introducing topologically protected skyrmions in graphene holds significant importance for developing high-speed, low-energy spintronic devices. Here, we present a centrosymmetric ferromagnetic graphene/trilayer Cr2Ge2Te6/graphene…

Reliable transport of magnetic skyrmions is required for any future skyrmion-based information processing devices. Here we present a micromagnetic study of the in-plane current-driven motion of a skyrmion in a ferromagnetic nanotrack with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , G. P. Zhao , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

It is widely believed that the skyrmion Hall effect, often disruptive for device applications, vanishes for overall topologically trivial structures such as (synthetic) antiferromagnetic skyrmions and skyrmioniums due to a compensation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 Robin Msiska , Davi R. Rodrigues , Jonathan Leliaert , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Magnetic materials hosting topological spin textures like magnetic skyrmion exhibit nontrivial Hall effect, namely, topological Hall effect (THE). In this study, we demonstrate the emergence of THE in thin films of half-metallic perovskite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-03 M. Nakamura , D. Morikawa , X. Z. Yu , F. Kagawa , T. Arima , Y. Tokura , M. Kawasaki

We demonstrate that the spin Hall effect in a thin film with strong spin-orbit scattering can excite magnetic precession in an adjacent ferromagnetic film. The flow of alternating current through a Pt/NiFe bilayer generates an oscillating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Luqiao Liu , Takahiro Moriyama , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Magnetic skyrmions are fascinating topological particle-like textures promoted by a trade-off among interfacial properties (perpendicular anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI)) and dipolar interactions. Depending on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 R. Tomasello , Z. Wang , E. Raimondo , S. Je , M. Im , M. Carpentieri , W. Jiang , G. Finocchio

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-sized topologically non-trivial spin textures that can be moved by external stimuli such as spin currents and internal stimuli such as spatial gradients of a material parameter. Since the total energy of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Ismael Ribeiro de Assis , Ingrid Mertig , Börge Göbel

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-scale magnetic states that could be used in various spintronics devices. A central issue is the mechanism and rate of various possible annihilation processes and the lifetime of metastable skyrmions. While most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Sergei M. Vlasov , Pavel F. Bessarab , Igor S. Lobanov , Mariia N. Potkina , Valery M. Uzdin , Hannes Jónsson

Achieving control over magnon spin currents in insulating magnets - where dissipation due to Joule heating is highly suppressed - is an active area of research that could lead to energy-efficient spintronics applications. However, magnon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-04 Sebastian A. Diaz , Tomoki Hirosawa , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) and ferromagnetic (FM) skyrmions possess unique advantages for spintronic applications. AFM skyrmions eliminate the skyrmion Hall effect and exhibit fast dynamics, whereas FM skyrmions are easier to nucleate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-03 Xinyang Jiang , Jian Wu , Weiyi Pan

We study the collective dynamics of the Skyrmion crystal (SkX) in thin films of ferromagnetic metals resulting from the nontrivial Skyrmion topology. We show that the current-driven motion of the crystal reduces the topological Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jiadong Zang , Maxim Mostovoy , Jung Hoon Han , Naoto Nagaosa

We determined the parameters of a classical spin Hamiltonian describing an Fe monolayer on Pd(111) surface with a Pt_{1-x}Ir_{x} alloy overlayer from ab initio calculations. While the ground state of the system is ferromagnetic for x=0.00,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Levente Rózsa , András Deák , Eszter Simon , Rocio Yanes , László Udvardi , László Szunyogh , Ulrich Nowak

We investigate a mechanical method to manipulate magnetic Bloch Skyrmions by applying an electric field in a composite chiral-magnetic (CM)/ferroelectric (FE) bilayer. The magnetoelectric coupling at the interface allows the electric field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Zidong Wang , Malcolm Grimson

Semiclassical chiral fermions manifest the anomalous spin-Hall effect: when put into a pure electric field they suffer a side jump, analogous to what happens to their massive counterparts in non-commutative mechanics. The transverse shift…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-16 P. -M. Zhang , P. A. Horváthy

Curvilinear nanomagnets can support magnetic skyrmions stabilized at a local curvature without any intrinsic chiral interactions. Here, we propose a new mechanism to stabilize chiral N\'{e}el skyrmion states relying on the \textit{gradient}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi , Denys Makarov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Yuri Gaididei , Avadh Saxena , Denis D. Sheka

Magnetic skyrmions are whirl-like nano-objects with topological protection. When driven by direct currents (DC), skyrmions move but experience a transverse deflection. This so-called skyrmion Hall effect is often regarded a drawback for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig