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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…
The evolution of skyrmion crystal encapsulates skyrmion critical behaviors, such as nucleation, deformation and annihilation. Here, we achieve a tunable evolution of artificial skyrmion crystal in nanostructured synthetic antiferromagnet…
Magnetic nano-skyrmions develop quantized helicity excitations, and the quantum tunneling between nano-skyrmions possessing distinct helicities is indicative of the quantum nature of these particles. Experimental methods capable of…
When two magnetic skyrmions - whirl-like, topologically protected quasiparticles - form a bound pair, a biskyrmion state with a topological charge of $N_\mathrm{Sk}=\pm 2$ is constituted. Recently, especially the case of two partially…
Understanding the dynamics of the magnetic skyrmion, a particle-like topologically stable spin texture, and its response dynamics to external fields are indis-pensable for the applications in spintronic devices. In this letter, the Lorentz…
The nontrivial topological spin textures, such as magnetic skyrmions, are of great interest due to their potential use as information carriers in spintronic memory and logic. Here, we theoretically predict an asymmetric antibimeron (AAB) --…
Magnetic Skyrmions belong to the most interesting spin structures for the development of future information technology as they have been predicted to be topologically protected. To quantify their stability, we use an innovative multiscale…
Magnetic skyrmions are localized nanometric spin textures with quantized winding numbers as the topological invariant. Rapidly increasing attention has been paid to the investigations of skyrmions since their experimental discovery in 2009,…
A conventional superconductor with spin-orbit coupling turns into a topological superconductor beyond a critical strength of the Zeeman energy. The spin-expectation values $\mathbf{S}(\mathbf{k})$ in momentum space trace this transition via…
The observation of skyrmions across diverse physical domains suggests that they are universal features of S$^{2}$-valued fields, reflecting the ubiquity of topology in the study of the natural world. In this paper, we develop an abstract…
Topological solitons have been studied for decades in classical field theories, and have started recently to impact condensed matter physics. Among those solitons, magnetic skyrmions are two-dimensional particle-like objects with a…
When spin polarised electrons flow through a magnetic texture a transfer torque is generated. We examine the effect of this torque on skyrmions and skyrmion bags, skyrmionic structures of arbitrary integer topological degree, in thin…
Optical skyrmions, the optical analogue of topological configurations formed by three-dimensional vector fields covering the whole 4{\pi} solid angle but confined in a two-dimensional (2D) domain, have recently attracted growing interest…
Skyrmion nucleation induced by spin-transfer torques at an interface of a topological insulator and a ferromagnetic insulator is investigated. Due to strong spin-orbit coupling on a surface of topological insulators, which enhances the…
Skyrmions, once a hypothesized field-theoretical object believed to describe the nature of elementary particles, became common sightings in recent years among several non-centrosymmetric metallic ferromagnets. For more practical…
The stability of two-dimensional chiral skyrmions in a tilted magnetic field is studied. It is shown that by changing the direction of the field and its magnitude, one can continuously transform chiral skyrmion into a skyrmion with opposite…
Skyrmions refer to small swirling spin structures that emerge in ferromagnetic materials and show promising features to be used as a `bit' of information in future spintronic devices. Our research explores the possibility of nucleating…
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…
The realization of chiral spin textures - comprising myriad distinct, nanoscale arrangements of spins with topological properties - has established pathways for engineering robust, energy-efficient and scalable elements for non-volatile…
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…