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Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected nanoscale spin textures exhibiting fascinating physical behaviors. Recent observations of room temperature N\'eel-type skyrmions in magnetic multilayer films are an important step towards their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Senfu Zhang , Junwei Zhang , Yan Wen , Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Xixiang Zhang

Under the correct conditions, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI) can lead to topologically protected spin textures such as skyrmions. The application of DMI for spin-based computation and memory technologies is promising and requires…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-02 Javier F. Pulecio , Aleš Hrabec , Katharina Zeissler , Yimei Zhu , Christopher H. Marrows

Understanding the role of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) for the formation of helimagnetic order, as well as the emergence of skyrmions in magnetic systems that lack inversion symmetry, has found increasing interest due to the…

Magnetic skyrmions are nanometric spin textures of outstanding potential for spintronic applications due to unique features governed by their non-trivial topology. It is well known that skyrmions of definite chirality are stabilized by the…

We experimentally demonstrate the formation of room-temperature skyrmions with radii of about 25\,nm in easy-plane anisotropy multilayers with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We detect the formation of individual…

Quantum collapse of a small skyrmion in a thin magnetic film with Dzyalishinskii-Moriya (DMI) interaction has been studied. The energy of the skyrmion and the stability threshold determined by the DMI, the external magnetic field, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Amel Derras-Chouk , Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Dmitry A. Garanin

The coarse-grained interactions between N\'eel skyrmions, stabilized by interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya coupling (iDMI), are studied through the properties of their hexagonal lattices by micromagnetic simulations. The interactions with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Ioanna Karagianni , Ioannis Panagiotopoulos

Chiral magnets are an emerging class of topological matter harbouring localized and topologically protected vortex-like magnetic textures called skyrmions, which are currently under intense scrutiny as a new entity for information storage…

We consider the interplay between magnetic skyrmions in an insulating thin film and the Dirac surface states of a 3D topological insulator (TI), coupled by proximity effect. The magnetic texture of skyrmions can lead to confinement of Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-28 Hilary M. Hurst , Dmitry K. Efimkin , Jiadong Zang , Victor Galitski

We study the behaviour of the magnetization vector field in a thin ferromagnetic film in the presence of an external in-plane constant magnetic field. We work on a specific thin-film regime where boundary vortices dominate the energy and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Khalida Awashra , Matthias Kurzke

We study the emergence and dynamics of in-plane skyrmions in collinear ferromagnetic heterostructures. We present a minimal energy model for this class of magnetic textures, determine the crystal symmetries compatible with it and propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Ricardo Zarzuela , Venkata Krishna Bharadwaj , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Jairo Sinova , Karin Everschor-Sitte

To realize future spintronic applications with magnetic skyrmions -- topologically nontrivial swirling spin structures -- it is essential to achieve efficient writing and deleting capabilities of these quasi-particles. Electric-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-29 Souvik Paul , Stefan Heinze

We present an analytical theory to describe three-dimensional magnetic textures in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic multilayers that arise in the presence of magnetostatic interactions and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-06 Ivan Lemesh , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

We study a variational problem for the Landau--Lifshitz energy with Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya interactions arising in 2D micromagnetics, focusing on the Bogomol'nyi regime. We first determine the minimal energy for arbitrary topological…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Slim Ibrahim , Tatsuya Miura , Carlos Román , Ikkei Shimizu

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI) is attracting great interests for spintronics. An iDMI constant larger than 3 mJ/m^2 is expected to minimize the size of skyrmions and to optimize the DW dynamics. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Anni Cao , Runze Chen , Xueying Zhang , Xinran Wang , Shiyang Lu , Shishen Yan , Bert Koopmans , Weisheng Zhao

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) has attracted considerable recent attention owing to the intriguing physics behind and the fundamental role it played in stabilizing magnetic solitons, such as magnetic skyrmions and chiral domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Zhenyu Wang , Beining Zhang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

The current driven motion of skyrmions in MnSi and FeGe thinned single crystals could be initiated at current densities of the order of $10^6$ A/m, five orders of magnitude smaller than for magnetic domain walls. The technologically crucial…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-07 Mirko Baćani , Miguel A. Marioni , Johannes Schwenk , Hans J. Hug

We formulate and study the general boundary conditions dictating the magnetization profile in the vicinity of an interface between magnets with dissimilar properties. Boundary twists in the vicinity of an edge due to Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 Aldo Raeliarijaona , Rabindra Nepal , Alexey A. Kovalev

Ferromagnetic materials are governed by a variational principle which is nonlocal, nonconvex and multiscale. The main object is given by a unit-length three-dimensional vector field, the magnetization, that corresponds to the stable states…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Radu Ignat , Matthias Kurzke

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is intimately related to the prospect of superior domain-wall dynamics and the formation of magnetic skyrmions. Although some experimental efforts have been recently proposed to…