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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

Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture stabilized by the protection due to their topology. In most cases they are induced by chiral interactions between atomic spins existing in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-21 Albert Fert , Nicolas Reyren , Vincent Cros

We report the discovery of a thermodynamically stable skyrmion-antiskyrmion lattice in two-dimensional heterostructures, a novel state exhibiting a net-zero global topological charge owing to an equal population of skyrmions and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Sayan Banik , Ashis K. Nandy

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures with potential applications in memory and logic devices. Skyrmions have been commonly observed in systems with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction due to broken inversion symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Jyotirish Das , Muhammad Akram , Onur Erten

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

Synthetic antiferromagnets have great potential as skyrmion carriers in which new properties are expected for these spin textures, owing to changed magnetostatics and the absence of net topological charge. Here we numerically simulate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Eloi Haltz , Christopher E. A. Barker , Christopher H. Marrows

Skyrmions are spatially localized magnetic swirls which carry a nonzero integer topological charge. We study crystals of skyrmions in a two-dimensional ferromagnet model with chiral interactions induced by the presence of broken inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-22 Sopheak Sorn , Stefan Divic , Arun Paramekanti

Nontrivial topological structures offer rich playground in condensed matter physics including fluid dynamics, superconductivity, and ferromagnetism, and they promise alternative device configurations for post-Moore spintronics and…

The ground states of square lattice two-dimensional antiferromagnets with anisotropy in an external magnetic field are determined using Monte Carlo simulations and compared to theoretical analysis. We find a new phase in between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Rick Keesman , Mark Raaijmakers , A. E. Baerends , G. T. Barkema , R. A. Duine

Topological magnetic textures are particle-like spin configurations stabilized by competing interactions. Their formation is commonly attributed to fluctuation-driven, first-order nucleation processes requiring activation over a topological…

Recent studies show superconductivity provides new perspectives on spintronics. We study a heterostructure composed of an s-wave superconductor and a cubic chiral-magnet that can stabilize a topological spin texture, a skyrmion. We propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Rina Takashima , Satoshi Fujimoto

We propose a general framework for designing a two-dimensional (2D) topological superconductor (TSC) using a magnet-superconductor hybrid system. This setup involves a monolayer of CrInTe$_3$, which hosts noncoplanar magnetic textures, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-12 Arnob Mukherjee , Fengyi Zhou , Soheil Ershadrad , Tanay Nag , Duo Wang , Biplab Sanyal

We consider a magnetic skyrmion crystal formed at the surface of a topological insulator. Incorporating the exchange interaction between the helical Dirac surface states and the periodic N\'eel or Bloch skyrmion texture, we obtain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Stefan Divic , Henry Ling , T. Pereg-Barnea , Arun Paramekanti

We present a comprehensive study of current-driven dynamics, transformations, and instabilities of skyrmioniums in chiral magnetic films, considering both isolated objects and collective states forming skyrmionium-based meta-matter. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Kaito Nakamura , Yuka Kotorii , Andrey O. Leonov

We present a detailed investigation of the topological phases and Majorana fermion (MF) excitations that arise from the bulk interplay between (un)conventional one/two-band spin-singlet superconductivity and a number of magnetic texture…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-28 Daniel Steffensen , Morten H. Christensen , Brian M. Andersen , Panagiotis Kotetes

The combination of a superconductor (SC) and a topological insulator (TI) nanowire was proposed as a potential candidate for realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs). In this study, we adopt the Schr\"odinger-Poisson formalism to incorporate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Li Chen , Xiao-Hong Pan , Zhan Cao , Dong E. Liu , Xin Liu

We theoretically demonstrate that sufficiently strong magnetoelastic coupling can change the ground state of otherwise uniform spin systems to chiral spin configurations. More specifically, we show that, a periodic array of chiral spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Gyungchoon Go , Se Kwon Kim

We study topological transitions in one dimensional superconductors that can harbor multiple edge Majorana bound states protected by chiral symmetry. The chiral symmetry arises due to the structure of the internal spin degrees of freedom of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-05 Kristian Løvås Svalland , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco

We study the dynamics of skyrmions under spin-transfer torque in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya materials with easy-axis anisotropy. In particular, we study the motion of a topological skyrmion with skyrmion number $Q=1$ and a non-topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

Magnetic skyrmions have the potential to provide solutions for low-power, high-density data storage and processing. One of the major challenges in developing skyrmion-based devices is the skyrmions' magnetic stability in confined…