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The quest for electric-field control of nanoscale magnetic states such as skyrmions, which would impact the field of spintronics, has led to a challenging search for multiferroic materials or structures with strong magnetoelectric coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-24 Xin Jin , Andrew O'Hara , Yu-Yang Zhang , Shixuan Du , Sokrates T. Pantelides

Chiral magnetic textures in ultrathin perpendicularly magnetised multilayer film stacks with an interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction have been the focus of much research recently. The chirality associated with the broken inversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 K. Fallon , S. McVitie , W. Legrand , F. Ajejas , D. Maccariello , S. Collin , V. Cros , N. Reyren

Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions have interesting static and transport properties that make them candidates for future spintronic devices. Control and manipulation of the size and behavior of skyrmions is thus of crucial importance. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Steven S. -L. Zhang , C. Phatak , A. K. Petford-Long , O. G. Heinonen

In this work we propose a new route to describe topological excitations in magnetic systems through a single real scalar field. We show here that spherically symmetric structures in two spatial dimensions, which map helical excitations in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 D. Bazeia , M. M. Doria , E. I. B. Rodrigues

We theoretically investigate field-induced switching of magnetic topology in a nanodisk-shaped sample of noncentrosymmetric dipolar magnet in which the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction that stabilizes an antiskyrmion with $N_{\rm sk}$=+1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Tatsuki Muto , Masahito Mochizuki

We theoretically propose that magnetic skyrmion, nanometric spin vortex characterized by a quantized topological number, can be electrically created on a thin-film specimen of chiral-lattice magnetic insulator within a few nanoseconds by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-24 Masahito Mochizuki

Skyrmions are topological magnetic textures that can arise in non-centrosymmetric ferromagnetic materials. In most systems experimentally investigated to date, skyrmions emerge as classical objects. However, the discovery of skyrmions with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-07 Andreas Haller , Solofo Groenendijk , Alireza Habibi , Andreas Michels , Thomas L. Schmidt

To effectively track and manipulate topological solitons (e.g. skyrmions) are the key challenge before their applications. Inspired by the idea of sliding ferroelectricity, here a general strategy is proposed to print magnetic skyrmions to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-19 Zhong Shen , Xiaoyan Yao , Shuai Dong

In this work, we investigate the emergence of topological spin textures in a ferromagnetically coupled bilayer chiral magnet by means of Monte Carlo simulations of a classical spin model including exchange interaction, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-13 Gülşen Doğan , Ümit Akıncı

High tunability of two dimensional magnetic materials (by strain, gating, heterostructuring or otherwise) provides unique conditions for studying versatile magnetic properties and controlling emergent magnetic phases. Expanding the scope of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Raí M. Menezes , Clécio C. de Souza Silva , Milorad V. Milošević

In multiferroic materials, the microscopic magnetic and electric textures are strongly correlated with each other by magnetoelectric (ME) coupling. Therefore, topological electric dipole textures, such as ferroelectric (FE) dipole skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Zhosen Liu

Solid state theory, density functional theory and its generalizations for correlated systems together with numerical simulations on supercomputers allow nowadays to model magnetic systems realistically and in detail and can be even used to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-16 Vladislav Borisov

Skyrmions in ultrathin ferromagnetic metal (FM)/heavy metal (HM) multilayer systems produced by conventional sputtering methods have recently generated huge interest due to their applications in the field of spintronics. The sandwich…

Magnetic textures such as skyrmions in thin films grown on substrates possess significant technological potential. Inhomogeneous magnetic structures can be described as homogeneous ferromagnetic order in the presence of anisotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Zachary Llewellyn , Eric Mascot , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Stephan Rachel

It has been proposed that topological insulators can be best characterized not as surface conductors, but as bulk magnetoelectrics that -- under the right conditions-- have a universal quantized magnetoelectric response coefficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 N. P. Armitage , Liang Wu

Non-Hermitian systems have been discussed mostly in the context of open systems and nonequilibrium. Recent experimental progress is much from optical, cold-atomic, and classical platforms due to the vast tunability and clear identification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected solitons observed in various classes of real magnets. In two-dimensional systems, where the target space of local magnetization values is the two-sphere $S^2$, skyrmion textures are classified…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-30 Fletcher Williams , David Dahlbom , Hao Zhang , Shruti Agarwal , Kipton Barros , Cristian D. Batista

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin structure, and their existence in ferromagnetically coupled multilayers has been reported with disordered arrangement. In these multilayers, the heavy metal spacing layers provide an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-30 Yong Li , Qiyuan Feng , Sihua Li , Ke Huang , Weiliang Gan , Haibiao Zhou , Xiangjun Jin , Xiao Renshaw Wang , Fusheng Ma , Qingyou Lu , Wen Siang Lew

The magnetic skyrmion structure can be formed in the chiral magnets (CMs) with strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. In this work, we propose a way of artificially tailoring the topological details of the skyrmion such as its radial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 Yin-Yan Zhang , Rui Zhu

Skyrmions are topological spin textures of interest for fundamental science and applications. Previous theoretical studies have focused on systems with broken bulk inversion symmetry, where skyrmions are stabilized by easy-axis anisotropy.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-16 James Rowland , Sumilan Banerjee , Mohit Randeria