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Skyrmions dynamics in the approximation of point-particle skyrmions is considered in the multiferroic insulators, where the spiral magnetic structure is accompanied by finite electric dipole moment. The skyrmion motion is studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Pavel A. Andreev , Mariya Iv. Trukhanova

Magnetic skyrmionium is a novel magnetization configuration with zero skyrmion number, which is composed by two skyrmions with opposite skyrmion number. Here, we study the dynamics of skyrmionium under an anisotropy gradient. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Chengkun Song , Chendong Jin , Yunxu Ma , Jinshuai Wang , Haiyan Xia , Jianbo Wang , Qingfang Liu

Antiferromagnetic(AFM) skyrmions have been in the spotlight as ideal topological magnetic bits. Although they are topologically protected, they do not exhibit the skyrmion Hall effect unlike the ferromagnetic ones. Thus, AFM skyrmions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Jemin Park , HaRu K. Park , SungBin Lee

We find numerically skyrmionic textures with skyrmion number Q=0 in ferromagnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and perpendicular anisotropy. These have the form of a skyrmion-antiskyrmion pair and may be called chiral droplets.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Naveen Sisodia , Pranaba Kishor Muduli , Nikos Papanicolaou , Stavros Komineas

The skyrmion racetrack is a promising concept for future information technology. There, binary bits are carried by nanoscale spin swirls -- skyrmions -- driven along magnetic strips. Stability of the skyrmions is a critical issue for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 P. F. Bessarab , G. P. Müller , I. S. Lobanov , F. N. Rybakov , N. S. Kiselev , H. Jónsson , V. M. Uzdin , S. Blügel , L. Bergqvist , A. Delin

It is shown that the collective spin rotation of a single Skyrmion in quantum Hall ferromagnet can be regarded as precession of the entire spin texture in the external magnetic field, with an effective moment of inertia which becomes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Maniv , Yu. A. Bychkov , I. D. Vagner

One of the key technologies in spintronics is to tame spin-orbit coupling (SOC) that links spin and motion of electrons, giving rise to intriguing magneto-transport properties in itinerant magnets. Prominent examples of such SOC-based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-22 Yuki Ohuchi , Jobu Matsuno , Naoki Ogawa , Yusuke Kozuka , Masaki Uchida , Yoshinori Tokura , Masashi Kawasaki

In this article we use chiral domain walls to manipulate and trap magnetic skyrmion quasi-particles in chiral magnetic materials such as ultrathin Co/Pt films. The magnetic skyrmions can be orientated such that their interaction with domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Paul Leask

Magnetic skyrmions are compact chiral spin textures that exhibit a rich variety of topological phenomena and hold potential for developing high-density memory devices and novel computing schemes driven by spin currents. Here, we demonstrate…

In three-dimensional chiral magnets, skyrmions are line-like objects oriented parallel to the applied magnetic field. The efficient coupling of magnetic skyrmion lattices to spin currents and magnetic fields permits their dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-03 Felix Rucker , Alla Bezvershenko , Denis Mettus , Andreas Bauer , Markus Garst , Achim Rosch , Christian Pfleiderer

Magnetic skyrmions with a well-defined spin texture have shown unprecedented potential for various spintronic applications owning to their topologically non-trivial and quasiparticle properties. To put skyrmions into practical technology,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-16 Ruyi Chen , Chong Chen , Lei Han , Peisen Liu , Rongxuan Su , Wenxuan Zhu , Yongjian Zhou , Feng Pan , Cheng Song

Magnetic skyrmion is a topologically protected domain-wall structure at nanoscale, which could serve as a basic building block for advanced spintronic devices. Here, we propose a microwave field-driven skyrmionic device with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-18 Jing Xia , Yangqi Huang , Xichao Zhang , Wang Kang , Chentian Zheng , Xiaoxi Liu , Weisheng Zhao , Yan Zhou

We study Dirac fermions in the presence of a space-dependent chiral gauge field and thermodynamic gradients, establishing a connection to the inverse spin Hall effect. The chiral gauge field induces a chiral magnetic field, resulting in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hung-Hsuan Teh , Tokiro Numasawa , Shun Okumura , Takashi Oka

We demonstrate room-temperature stabilization of dipolar magnetic skyrmions with diameters in the range of $100$ nm in a single ultrathin layer of the Heusler alloy Co$_2$FeAl (CFA) under moderate magnetic fields. Current-induced skyrmion…

Topological spin textures can serve as non-volatile information carriers. Here we study the current-induced dynamics of an isolated magnetic skyrmion on a nanoscale square-grid pinning pattern formed by orthogonal defect lines with reduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Keiichiro Shirai , Hiroshi Fujiwara , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou , Xiaoxi Liu

Topological defects in magnetism have attracted great attention due to fundamental research interests and potential novel spintronics applications. Rich examples of topological defects can be found in nanoscale non-uniform spin textures,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-11 Siying Huang , Chao Zhou , Gong Chen , Hongyi Shen , Andreas K. Schmid , Kai Liu , Yizheng Wu

Synthetic antiferromagnetic skyrmions (SAFsk) are nanoscale, topologically protected spin textures with strong potential for spintronic technologies because of their high stability and the absence of the skyrmion Hall effect. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Emily Darwin , Riccardo Tomasello , Reshma Peremadathil Pradeep , Mario Carpentieri , Giovanni Finocchio , Hans J. Hug

We show that magnetic skyrmions can be stabilized at room temperature in continuous Ir/Co/Pt multilayers on SiO2/Si substrate without prior application of electric current or magnetic field. While decreasing the Co thickness, tuning of the…

In the cubic chiral magnet Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$Si a metastable state comprising of topologically nontrivial spin whirls, so-called skyrmions, may be preserved down to low temperatures by means of field cooling the sample. This metastable…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-24 Peter Milde , Erik Neuber , Andreas Bauer , Christian Pfleiderer , Lukas M. Eng

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale windings of the spin configuration that hold great promise for technology due to their topology-related properties and extremely reduced sizes. After the recent observation at room temperature of sub-100 nm…