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We examine the dynamics, Hall angle, and pinning for N{\'e}el skyrmions in an altermagnet. Using an atomistic model, we show that skyrmion velocity and Hall angle dependence is anisotropic with respect to the direction of the drive, due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. J. O. Reichhardt , A. Saxena , C. Reichhardt

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…

Magnetic skyrmion motion induced by an electric current has drawn much interest because of its application potential in next-generation magnetic memory devices. Recently, unidirectional skyrmion motion driven by an oscillating magnetic…

Taking all the magnon modes into account, we derive the skyrmion dynamics in response to a weak external drive. A skyrmion has rotational symmetry and the magnon modes can be characterized by an angular momentum. For a weak distortion of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-20 Shi-Zeng Lin

Magnetic skyrmions have great potential for developing novel spintronic devices. The electrical manipulation of skyrmions has mainly relied on current-induced spin-orbit torques. A recent theoretical model suggested that the skyrmions could…

We investigate skyrmion configuration and dynamics in antiferromagnetic thin disks. It is shown that the skyrmion acquires oscillatory dynamics with well-defined amplitude and frequency which may be controlled on demand by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 R. L. Silva , R. C. Silva , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like topological excitations in ferromagnets, which have the topological number $Q=\pm 1$, and hence show the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE) due to the Magnus force effect originating from the topology. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-25 Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Motohiko Ezawa

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 protected nanoscale objects, which are promising building blocks for novel magnetic and spintronic devices. Here, we investigate the dynamics of a skyrmion driven by a spin wave in a magnetic nanowire.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-28 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Dun Xiao , G. P. Zhao , Yaowen Liu , Yan Zhou

We theoretically study a ferrimagnetic domain-wall motion driven by a rotating magnetic field. We find that, depending on the magnitude and the frequency of the rotating field, the dynamics of a ferrimagnetic domain wall can be classified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Munsu Jin , Ik-Sun Hong , Duck-Ho Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee , Se Kwon Kim

Recent advances in the physics of current-driven antiferromagnetic skyrmions have observed the absence of a Magnus force. We outline the symmetry reasons for this phenomenon, and show that this cancellation will fail in the case of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Matthew W. Daniels , Weichao Yu , Ran Cheng , Jiang Xiao , Di Xiao

We study speed and skew deflection-angle dependence on skyrmion deformations of a tightly bound two-skyrmion state in a synthetic ferrimagnet. We condsider here, an in-plane uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy-term in order to induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 P. E. Roy , Ruben M. Otxoa , C. Moutafis

Skyrmions can be driven by spin-orbit torques as a result of the spin Hall effect. Here we model an additional contribution in ultra-thin multilayers, arising from the spin accumulation at heavy metal / ferromagnetic interfaces and observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 C. R. MacKinnon , S. Lepadatu , T. Mercer , P. Bissell

Controlled movement of nano-scale stable magnetic objects has been proposed as the foundation for a new generation of magnetic storage devices. Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like spin textures stabilized by their topology are particularly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-27 Yongkang Luo , Shizeng Lin , M. Leroux , N. Wakeham , D. M. Fobes , E. D. Bauer , J. B. Betts , J. D. Thompson , A. Migliori , M. Janoschek , Boris Maiorov

Magnetic skyrmions are highly promising candidates for future spintronic applications such as skyrmion racetrack memories and logic devices. They exhibit exotic and complex dynamics governed by topology and are less influenced by defects,…

Deformations of skyrmions arising from the presence of more than one magnetic sublattice lead to their massive dynamics in ferrimagnets as compared to the massless dynamics in 2D ferromagnets. This results in the gyroscopic motion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Dmitry A. Garanin , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

We predict a mechanism to controllably manipulate domain walls in kagome antiferromagnets via a single linearly polarized spin-wave source. We show by means of atomistic spin dynamics simulations of antiferromagnets with kagome structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Davi R. Rodrigues , Akshaykumar Salimath , Karin Everschor-Sitte , Kjetil M. D. Hals

We propose a new method to generate magnetic skyrmions through spin-wave focusing in chiral ferromagnets.A lens is constructed to focus spin waves by a curved interface between two ferromagnetic thin films with different perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Zhenyu Wang , Z. -X. Li , Ruifang Wang , Bo Liu , Hao Meng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

The dynamics of antiferromagnets is a current hot topic in condensed matter physics and spintronics. However, the dynamics of insulating antiferromagnets cannot be excited by an electric current, which is a method usually used to manipulate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Guoping Zhao , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

A lens, a device transforming propagation directions in an organized fashion, is one of the fundamental tools for wave manipulation. Spin wave, the collective excitation of ordered magnetizations, stands out as a promising candidate for…

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