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Skyrmions are topologically nontrivial, magnetic quasi-particles, that are characterized by a topological charge. A regular array of skyrmions - a skyrmion crystal (SkX) - features the topological Hall effect (THE) of electrons, that, in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-16 Börge Göbel , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

The quantum anomalous Hall effect has been theoretically predicted and experimentally verified in magnetic topological insulators. In addition, the surface states of these materials exhibit a hedgehog-like "spin" texture in momentum space.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Narayan Mohanta , Arno P. Kampf , Thilo Kopp

The well-known Hall effect describes the transverse deflection of charged particles (electrons or holes) in an electric-current carrying conductor under the influence of perpendicular magnetic fields, as a result of the Lorentz force.…

When an electron moves in a smoothly varying non-collinear magnetic structure, its spin-orientation adapts constantly, thereby inducing forces that act on both the magnetic structure and the electron. These forces may be described by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Schulz , R. Ritz , A. Bauer , M. Halder , M. Wagner , C. Franz , C. Pfleiderer , K. Everschor , M. Garst , A. Rosch

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically wound nanoscale textures of spins whose ambient stability and electrical manipulation in multilayer films have led to an explosion of research activities. While past efforts focused predominantly on…

Magnetic skyrmions are textures behaving as quasiparticles which are topologically different from other states. Their discovery in systems with broken inversion symmetry sparked the search for materials containing such magnetic phase at…

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like objects with topologically-protected stability which can be set into motion with an applied current. Using a particle-based model we simulate current-driven magnetic skyrmions interacting with random…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-09 Sebastian A. Diaz , C. J. O. Reichhardt , Daniel P. Arovas , Avadh Saxena , C. Reichhardt

Magnetic skyrmions are promising building blocks for future spintronic devices. However, the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE) remains an obstacle for practical applications based on the in-line transport of skyrmions. Here, we numerically study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Lan Bo , Xichao Zhang , Masahito Mochizuki , Xuefeng Zhang

Due to their non-trivial topology, skyrmions describe deflected trajectories, which hinders their straight propagation in nanotracks and can lead to their annihilation at the track edges. This deflection is caused by a gyrotropic force…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-06 L. Berges , R. Weil , A. Mougin , J. Sampaio

Non-interacting particles exhibiting Brownian motion have been observed in many occasions of sciences, such as molecules suspended in liquids, optically trapped microbeads, and spin textures in magnetic materials. In particular, a detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 Le Zhao , Zidong Wang , Xichao Zhang , Xue Liang , Jing Xia , Keyu Wu , Heng-An Zhou , Yiqing Dong , Guoqiang Yu , Kang L. Wang , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou , Wanjun Jiang

It is predicted magnetic skyrmions can be controllably moved on surfaces using a focused laser beam. Here an absorbed power of the order 1 mW, focused to a spot-size of the order 10 $\mu$m, results in a local temperature increase of around…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Serban Lepadatu

A theoretical study on the interplay of frustrated skyrmion and magnons is useful for revealing new physics and future experiments design. In this work, we investigated the magnon-driven dynamics of frustrated skyrmion in synthetic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Z. Jin , Y. F. Hu , T. T. Liu , Y. Liu , Z. P. Hou , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu

The thermal Hall effect has emerged as a fundamental tool for probing exotic quasiparticles and topological order, particularly in magnetic insulators where electronic conduction is suppressed. Much like skyrmions, which are characterized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ferenc Márkus , Katalin Gambár

We demonstrate that the nontrivial magnetic texture of antiferromagnetic skyrmions (AFM-Sks) promotes a non-vanishing topological spin Hall effect (TSHE) on the flowing electrons. This results in a substantial enhancement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 C. A. Akosa , O. A. Tretiakov , G. Tatara , A. Manchon

We present a consistent theory of the topological Hall effect (THE) in 2D magnetic systems with disordered array of chiral spin textures, such as magnetic skyrmions. We focus on the scattering regime when the mean-free path of itinerant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 K. S. Denisov , I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Averkiev , E. Lahderanta

Synthetic ferrimagnetic (SFiM) multilayers offer a versatile platform for hosting skyrmions with tunable magnetic properties, combining the advantages of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Unlike synthetic antiferromagnets, SFiMs retain a…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures in ferromagnetic materials that hold great promise for both classical information storage and processing, as well as for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Realizing practical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 N. I. Simchuck , I. S. Burmistrov , S. S. Apostoloff

The coupling of electron spin to real-space magnetic textures leads to a variety of interesting magnetotransport effects. The skyrmionic spin textures often found in chiral B20-lattice magnets give rise, via real-space Berry phases, to the…

Skyrmions, topologically protected textures, have been observed in different fields of nanotechnology and have emerged as promising candidates for different applications due to their topological stability, low-power operation, and dynamic…

Magnetic skyrmions are quasiparticles with non-trivial topology, envisioned to play a key role in next-generation data technology while simultaneously attracting fundamental research interest due to their emerging topological charge. In…