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Skyrmions are emerging topological spin structures that are potentially revolutionary for future data storage and spintronics applications. The existence and stability of skyrmions in magnetic materials is usually associated to the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 R. L. Novak , F. Garcia , E. R. P. Novais , J. P. Sinnecker , A. P. Guimarães

Magnetic skyrmions, which are topological particle-like excitations in ferromagnets, have attracted a lot of attention recently. Skyrmionics is an attempt to use magnetic skyrmions as information carriers in next generation spintronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that hold great promise as nanoscale information carriers in non-volatile memory and logic devices. While room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-induced manipulation were…

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

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures with a whirling configuration. Their topological properties, nanometer size and the fact that they can be moved by small current densities have opened a new paradigm for the manipulation of…

Magnetic skyrmions are key candidates for novel memory, logic, and neuromorphic computing. An essential property is their topological protection caused by the whirling spin texture as described by a robust integer winding number. However,…

Skyrmions are topologically protected entities in magnetic materials which have the potential to be used in spintronics for information storage and processing. However, Skyrmions in ferromagnets have some intrinsic difficulties which must…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Joseph Barker , Oleg A. Tretiakov

With the characteristics of ultrasmall, ultrafast and topological protection, optical skyrmions has great prospects in application of high intensity data stroage, high resolution microscopic imaging and polarization sensing. The flexible…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-27 Ni Zhang , Xinrui Lei , Jiachen Liu , Qiwen Zhan

Optical skyrmion beams, which encompass two-dimensional topology in their spatial structures, are promising for ultra-dense optical communications and advanced matter manipulation. Generating such light beams via a chip-based approach will…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-18 Wenbo Lin , Yasutomo Ota , Yasuhiko Arakawa , Satoshi Iwamoto

Skyrmions are chiral swirling magnetization structures with nanoscale size. These structures have attracted considerable attention due to their topological stability and promising applicability in nanodevices, since they can be displaced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Swapneel Amit Pathak , Riccardo Hertel

Recent advances reveal that light propagation in free space supports many exotic topological textures, such as skyrmions. Their unique space-time topologies make them promising candidates as next-generation robust information carriers.…

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…

Magnetic skyrmions are nontrivial spin textures which resist external perturbations, being promising candidates for the next generation recording devices. Nevertheless, a major challenge in realizing skyrmion-based devices is the…

Magnetic skyrmion, i.e. a topologically stable swirling spin texture, appears as a particle-like object in the two-dimensional (2D) systems, and has recently attracted attention as a candidate of novel information carrier. In the real…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 S. Seki , M. Suzuki , M. Ishibashi , R. Takagi , N. D. Khanh , Y. Shiota , W. Koshibae , Y. Tokura , T. Ono

In this paper, we propose a novel free-space optical (FSO) communication system utilizing optical skyrmions. We introduce a scheme referred to as skyrmion number modulation (SkM), which employs index modulation by encoding information onto…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Ryosuke Hara , Satoshi Iwamoto , Shinya Sugiura

Magnetic skyrmions present interesting physics due to their topological nature and hold significant promise for future information technologies. A key barrier to realizing skyrmion devices has been stabilizing these spin structures under…

Optical skyrmions offer a robust vectorial information degree of freedom for free-space communication, but practical deployment requires a compact platform capable of active topological reconfiguration. Here, we propose a silicon…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zili Cai , Tian Zhang , Qi Chen , Zheng Wang , Jian Dai , Kun Xu

Precise control of elastic waves in modes and coherences is of great use in reinforcing nowadays elastic energy harvesting/storage, nondestructive testing, wave-mater interaction, high sensitivity sensing and information processing, etc.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Si-Yuan Yu , Cheng He , Zhen Wang , Fu-Kang Liu , Xiao-Chen Sun , Zheng Li , Ming-Hui Lu , Xiao-Ping Liu , Yan-Feng Chen

The notion of non-trivial topological winding in condensed matter systems represents a major area of present-day theoretical and experimental research. Magnetic materials offer a versatile platform that is particularly amenable for the…