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We study the melting of skyrmions in a two-dimensional Heisenberg chiral magnet with bi-axial Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya interactions. These topological excitations may form at zero temperature a triangular crystal with long-range positional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-26 Yoshihiko Nishikawa , Koji Hukushima , Werner Krauth

Spin transfer torque (STT) affords magnetic nanodevices the potential to act as memory, computing, and microwave elements operating at ultra-low currents and at a low energy cost. Spin transfer torque is not only effective in manipulating…

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We explore spatially localized solitonic configurations of a director field, generated using optical realignment and laser-induced heating, in frustrated chiral nematic liquid crystals confined between substrates with perpendicular surface…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-30 Paul J. Ackerman , Rahul P. Trivedi , Bohdan Senyuk , Jao van de Lagemaat , Ivan I. Smalyukh

We demonstrate numerically on large spin lattices that one can write skyrmions in a thin magnetic film with a magnetic dipole of a few tens of nanometer in size. Nucleation of non-chiral skyrmions as well as chiral skyrmions formed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Dmitry A. Garanin , Daniel Capic , Senfu Zhang , Xixiang Zhang , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Recent developments in the magnetization dynamics in spin textures, particularly skyrmions, offer promising new directions for magnetic storage technologies and spintronics. Skyrmions, characterized by their topological protection and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-21 Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Seung-Cheol Lee

Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture stabilized by the protection due to their topology. In most cases they are induced by chiral interactions between atomic spins existing in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-21 Albert Fert , Nicolas Reyren , Vincent Cros

Magnetic skyrmions, the topological states possessing chiral magnetic structure with nontrivial topology, have been widely investigated as a promising candidate for spintronic devices. They can also couple with superconducting vortices to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-22 Yong-Jie Xie , Ang Qian , Bin He , Yu-Biao Wu , Sheng Wang , Bing Xu , Guoqiang Yu , Xiufeng Han , X. G. Qiu

N\'eel-type magnetic skyrmions in multilayer films have attracted significant amount of attention recently for their stability at room temperature and capability of motion driven by a low-density electrical current, which can be potentially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Senfu Zhang , Junwei Zhang , Yan Wen , Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Xixiang Zhang

Recently proposed spintronic devices use magnetic skyrmions as bits of information. The reliable detection of those chiral magnetic objects is an indispensable requirement. Yet, the high mobility of magnetic skyrmions leads to their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Tim Matthies , Alexander F. Schäffer , Thore Posske , Roland Wiesendanger , Elena Y. Vedmedenko

In bulk non-centrosymmetric magnets the chiral Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange stabilizes tubular skyrmions with a reversed magnetization in their centers. While the double-twist is favorable in the center of a skyrmion, it gives rise to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-11 A. O. Leonov , U. K. Rößler , M. Mostovoy

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin textures that their thermal stability originates from the nontrivial topology in nature. Recently, a plethora of topological spin textures have been theoretically predicted or experimentally observed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Yu Li , Yuzhe Zang , Runze Chen , Christoforos Moutafis

We propose an alternative route to stabilize magnetic skyrmion textures which does not require Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction, magnetic anisotropy, or an external Zeeman field. Instead, it solely relies on the emergence of flux in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Yun-Peng Huang , Panagiotis Kotetes

Skyrmion lines in metallic chiral magnets carry an emergent magnetic field experienced by the conduction electrons. The inflow and outflow of this field across a closed surface is not necessarily equal, thus it allows for the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-11 Shi-Zeng Lin , Avadh Saxena

Chiral symmetry breaking in magnetic thin films stabilizes new families of topological solitons that are absent in conventional anisotropic ferromagnets. Beyond the classical chiral skyrmion, which arises in uniaxial systems through the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Glal Bacho , Christof Melcher

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…

Magnetic skyrmions form in chiral multilayers from the shrinking or fission of elongated stripe textures. Here we report an experimental and theoretical study of the temperature dependence of this stripe-to-skyrmion transition in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Xiaoye Chen , Edwin Chue , Jian Feng Kong , Hui Ru Tan , Hang Khume Tan , Anjan Soumyanarayanan

A magnetic skyrmion is a spin whirl with topological protection and high mobility to electric current. Intrinsic magnetoelastic coupling in chiral magnets permits manipulation of magnetic skyrmions and their lattice using mechanical loads,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Yangfan Hu , Biao Wang

Magnetic skyrmions are swirling spin textures with topologically protected noncoplanarity. Recently, skyrmions with the topological number of unity have been extensively studied in both experiment and theory. We here show that a skyrmion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-24 Ryo Ozawa , Satoru Hayami , Yukitoshi Motome

We study theoretically, via Monte Carlo simulations on lattices containing up to 1000 x 1000 spins, thermal creation of skyrmion lattices in a 2D ferromagnetic film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-17 Dmitry A. Garanin , Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Senfu Zhang , Xixiang Zhang

We formulate a theory of skyrmion and antiskyrmion generation using magnetic field and charge current pulses. We show that the topological defect can be created at an edge of a system with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-19 Shane Sandhoefner , Aldo Raeliarijaona , Rabindra Nepal , Dalton Snyder-Tinoco , Alexey A. Kovalev