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Bloch points are three-dimensional topological singularities in magnetization that play a key role in topological transformations of spin textures, such as skyrmion creation or annihilation. While topology often enforces the existence of…

Superpositions of spin helices can yield topological spin textures, such as two-dimensional vortices and skyrmions, and three-dimensional hedgehogs. Their topological nature and spatial dimensionality depend on the number and relative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-24 Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

In spin-orbit coupled crystals, symmetries can protect multifold degeneracies with large Chern numbers and Brillouin zone spanning topological surface states. In this work, we explore the extent to which the nontrivial topology of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Mao Lin , Iñigo Robredo , Niels B. M. Schröter , Claudia Felser , Maia G. Vergniory , Barry Bradlyn

An electron moving in a magnetically ordered background feels an effective magnetic field that can be both stronger and more rapidly varying than typical externally applied fields. One consequence is that insulating magnetic materials in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joel E. Moore , Ying Ran , Xiao-Gang Wen

Magnetic skyrmions are stable topological solitons with complex non-coplanar spin structures. Their nanoscopic size and the low electric currents required to initiate and control their motion has opened a new field of research, skyrmionics,…

The chiral magnets with topological spin textures provide a rare platform to explore topology and magnetism for potential application implementation. Here, we study the magnetic dynamics of several spin configurations on the monoaxial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-11 Liyuan Li , Haotian Li , Kaiyuan Zhou , Yaoyu Gu , Qingwei Fu , Lina Chen , Lei Zhang , Ronghua Liu

Using atomistic simulations, we examine the dynamics of three-dimensional magnetic hopfions interacting with an array of line defects or posts as a function of defect spacing, defect strength, and current. We find a pinned phase, a sliding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , A. Saxena , N. P. Vizarim , P. A. Venegas

Photoinduced nonequilibrium spin structure is examined in the double-exchange model, in which itinerant electrons couple with localized spins through the ferromagnetic Hund coupling. In particular, we focus on the transient spin structure…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-03 Atsushi Ono , Sumio Ishihara

Topological insulators host topology-linked boundary states, whose spin and charge degrees of freedom could be exploited to design topological devices with enhanced functionality. We experimentally observe that dissipationless chiral edge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Chao Chen , Xing Ding , Jian Qin , Jizhou Wu , Yu He , Chao-Yang Lu , Li Li , Xiong-Jun Liu , Barry C. Sanders , Jian-Wei Pan

Collective dynamics of topological magnetic textures can be thought of as a massive particle moving in a magnetic pinning potential. We demonstrate that inside a cavity resonator this effective mechanical system can feel the electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Igor Proskurin , Alexander S. Ovchinnikov , Jun-ichiro Kishine , Robert L. Stamps

We report three-dimensional topological spin configurations including a novel form of skyrmion-antiskyrmion coupling in D2d chiral magnets. The skyrmion-antiskyrmion coupled string, consisting of skyrmions located in the near-surface layers…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-11 Jin Tang , Yaodong Wu , Jialiang Jiang , Lingyao Kong , Wei Liu , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du

Dynamical topological solitons are studied in classical two-dimensional Heisenberg easy-axis ferromagnets. The properties of such solitons are treated both analytically in the continuum limit and numerically by spin dynamics simulations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis D. Sheka , Christian Schuster , Boris A. Ivanov , Franz G. Mertens

Hopfions, as three-dimensional topologically nontrivial structures described by poloidal and toroidal winding numbers, hold promise as robust information carriers in spintronics, functional materials, and optical communications. Although…

Magnetic hopfions are topologically protected three-dimensional solitons that are constituted by a tube which exhibits a topologically nontrivial spin texture in the cross-section profile and is closed to a torus. Here we show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Börge Göbel , Collins Ashu Akosa , Gen Tatara , Ingrid Mertig

We investigate a long-ranged coupled and non-Hermitian two-dimensional array of nanomagnets, fabricated on a thin magnetic substrate and subjected to an in-plane magnetic field. We predict topology-driven edge and corner skin effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Chengyuan Cai , Dante M. Kennes , Michael A. Sentef , Tao Yu

We present a microscopic electronic description of how antiskyrmions can be stabilized in a Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupled magnetic metal. Furthermore, we show that the antiskyrmions can be tuned into Bloch skyrmions via a change in sign of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-15 Deepak S. Kathyat , Arnob Mukherjee , Sanjeev Kumar

Using a semiclassical Green's function formalism, we discover the emergence of chiral and topological orbital magnetism in two-dimensional chiral spin textures by explicitly finding the corrections to the orbital magnetization, proportional…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-20 Fabian R. Lux , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

Hopfions are an intriguing class of string-like solitons, named according to a classical topological concept classifying three-dimensional direction fields. The search of hopfions in real physical systems is going on for nearly half a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-05 F. N. Rybakov , N. S. Kiselev , A. B. Borisov , L. Döring , C. Melcher , S. Blügel

Surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators exhibit the phenomenon of spin-momentum locking, whereby the orientation of an electron spin is determined by its momentum. Probing the spin texture of these states is of critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Pan He , Steven S. -L. Zhang , Dapeng Zhu , Yang Liu , Yi Wang , Jiawei Yu , Giovanni Vignale , Hyunsoo Yang

3D topological solitons are marvels of mathematical physics that arise in theoretical models in elementary particle and nuclear physics, condensed matter, and cosmology. A particularly interesting type of them is described by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-06 Jung-Shen B. Tai , Jin-Sheng Wu , Ivan I. Smalyukh