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We present the results of transverse-field muon-spin rotation measurements on an epitaxially grown 40 nm-thick film of MnSi on Si(111) in the region of the field-temperature phase diagram where a skyrmion phase has been observed in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-04 T. Lancaster , F. Xiao , Z. Salman , I. O. Thomas , S. J. Blundell , F. L. Pratt , S. J. Clark , T. Prokscha , A. Suter , S. L. Zhang , A. A. Baker , T. Hesjedal

Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates as information carriers in logic or storage devices thanks to their robustness, guaranteed by the topological protection, and their nanometric size. Currently, little is known about the influence…

Skyrmions, which are topologically stable magnetic structures, have manifested promising features to be used as an information carrier in new-age, non-volatile data storage devices. In this article, Co/Pt square nano-structure with Co-free…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-23 Tamali Mukherjee , V Satya Narayana Murthy

We show by micromagnetic simulations that spontaneous skyrmion ground state can exist in Co/Ru/Co nanodisks without the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction (DMI), which can remain stable in the applied magnetic field along +z direction even up…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-14 Yingying Dai , Han Wang , Peng Tao , Teng Yang , Weijun Ren , Zhidong Zhang

The formation of a skyrmion crystal and its phase transition are studied taking into account the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction at the interface between a ferroelectric layer and a magnetic layer in a superlattice. The frustration…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 Ildus F. Sharafullin , H. T. Diep

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 topologically protected quasiparticles and have drawn much attention because of their potential applications in next-generation spintronics devices. Their inherent topological stability, nanoscale size, and efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Hind Prakash , Himanshu Fulara

Magnetic skyrmion crystals are topological magnetic textures arising in the chiral ferromagnetic materials with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. The magnetostatic fields generated by magnetic skyrmion crystals are first studied by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-21 Ren Qin , Yong Wang

We model quantum Hall skyrmions in graphene monolayer at quarter filling by a theory of CP3 fields and study the energy minimizing skyrmions in presence of valley pseudospin anisotropy and Zeeman coupling. We present a diagram of all types…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-05 Yunlong Lian , Mark O. Goerbig

The influence of in-plane and canted magnetic fields on spin spirals and skyrmions in atomic bilayer islands of palladium and iron on an Ir(111) substrate is investigated by scanning tunnelling microscopy at low temperatures. It is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Lorenz Schmidt , Julian Hagemeister , Pin-Jui Hsu , André Kubetzka , Kirsten von Bergmann , Roland Wiesendanger

Non-collinear magnets exhibit a rich array of dynamic properties at microwave frequencies. They can host nanometre-scale topological textures known as skyrmions, whose spin resonances are expected to be highly sensitive to their local…

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin structures recently discovered at room temperature (RT) in multilayer films. Employing their novel topological properties towards exciting technological prospects requires a mechanistic understanding of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Bhartendu Satywali , Fusheng Ma , Shikun He , M. Raju , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Markus Garst , Anjan Soumyanarayanan , C. Panagopoulos

The advancement of next-generation magnetic devices depends on fast manipulating magnetic microstructures on the nanoscale. A universal method is presented for rapidly and reliably generating, controlling, and driving nano-scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Haiming Dong , Panpan Fu , Yifeng Duan , Kai Chang

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 are topologically non-trivial spin textures of potential interest for future information storage applications, and for such purposes, the control and understanding of single skyrmion creation is required. A scheme is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Gen Yin , Yufan Li , Lingyao Kong , Roger K. Lake , C. L. Chien , Jiadong Zang

Skyrmions, topologically protected vortex-like nanometric spin textures in magnets, have been attracting increasing attention for emergent electromagnetic responses and possible technological applications for spintronics. In particular,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Y. Tokunaga , X. Z. Yu , J. S. White , H. M. Rønnow , D. Morikawa , Y. Taguchi , Y. Tokura

Magnetic chiral skyrmions are vortex like spin structures that appear as stable or meta-stable states in magnetic materials due to the interplay between the symmetric and antisymmetric exchange interactions, applied magnetic field and/or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-01 Changhoon Heo , Nikolai S. Kiselev , Ashis Kumar Nandy , Stefan Blügel , Theo Rasing

A mutual interplay between the charge and spin degrees of freedom in itinerant magnets leads to a plethora of topological spin textures, such as magnetic skyrmion and vortex crystals, in both centrosymmetric and noncentrosymmetric hosts.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-15 Kaito Kobayashi , Satoru Hayami

Incommensurate magnetic phases in chiral cubic crystals are an established source of topological spin textures such as skyrmion and hedgehog lattices, with potential applications in spintronics and information storage. We report a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Victor Ukleev , Tapas Samanta , Oleg I. Utesov , Jonathan S. White , Luana Caron

We report that in cylindrical nanorods skyrmion chains, i.e., three-dimensional spin textures, emerge dynamically, as revealed by micromagnetic simulations. The skyrmion-chain state occurs when the diameter of the rod is larger than the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Michalis Charilaou , Jörg F. Löffler