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Skyrmions can be stabilized in magnetic systems with broken inversion symmetry and chiral interactions, such as Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI). Further, compensation of magnetic moments in ferrimagnetic materials can significantly…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-05 Y. Quessab , J. -W. Xu , C. T. Ma , W. Zhou , G. A. Riley , J. M. Shaw , H. T. Nembach , S. J. Poon , A. D. Kent

Magnetic skyrmions are fascinating topological particle-like textures promoted by a trade-off among interfacial properties (perpendicular anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI)) and dipolar interactions. Depending on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 R. Tomasello , Z. Wang , E. Raimondo , S. Je , M. Im , M. Carpentieri , W. Jiang , G. Finocchio

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin swirling vertices, which are promising in device applications due to their particle-like nature and excellent controlability. Magnetic skyrmions have been extensively studied in a variety…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-10 Fawei Zheng

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Tamali Mukherjee , Banasree Sadhukhan , V Satya Narayana Murthy

PdFe/Ir(111) has attracted tremendous attention for next-generation spintronics devices due to existence of magnetic skyrmions with the external magnetic field. Our density functional theoretical calculations in combination with spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-17 Banasree Sadhukhan , Anders Bergman , Johan Hellsvik , Patrik Thunström , Anna Delin

Magnetic skyrmions, topological spin textures observed in chiral magnets, have attracted huge interest due to their applications in the field of spintronics. In this work we study the stability of circular isolated skyrmions in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-06 S. A. Osorio , M. B. Sturla , H. D. Rosales , D. C. Cabra

Magnetic skyrmions are promising spin textures for building next-generation magnetic memories and spintronic devices. Nevertheless, one of the major challenges in realizing skyrmion-based devices is the stabilization of ordered arrays of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-02 E. Iroulart , H. D. Rosales

We report on the stabilization of ferromagnetic skyrmions in zero external magnetic fields, in exchange-biased systems composed of ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic (FM-AFM) bilayers. By performing atomistic spin dynamics simulations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-05 M. Pankratova , O. Eriksson , A. Bergman

The quest for electric-field control of nanoscale magnetic states such as skyrmions, which would impact the field of spintronics, has led to a challenging search for multiferroic materials or structures with strong magnetoelectric coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-24 Xin Jin , Andrew O'Hara , Yu-Yang Zhang , Shixuan Du , Sokrates T. Pantelides

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

Skyrmions have been proposed as new information carriers in racetrack memory devices. To realise such devices, a small size; high speed of propagation; and minimal skyrmion Hall angle are required. Synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Christopher E. A. Barker , Charles Parton-Barr , Christopher H. Marrows , Olga Kazakova , Craig Barton

Skyrmions are magnetic bubbles with nontrivial topology envisioned as data bits for ultrafast and power-efficient spintronic memory and logic devices. They may be stabilized in heavy-metal/ferromagnetic/oxide trilayer systems. The skyrmion…

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale, topologically protected spin textures with exceptional potential for high density data storage and energy efficient computing. Among various skyrmion hosting systems, rare earth transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Saroj Kumar Mishra , Y. K. Takahashi , C. Malavika , Karthik V. Raman , Jyoti Ranjan Mohanty

Thin magnetic films with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions are known to host skyrmion crystals, which typically have a hexagonal lattice structure. We investigate skyrmion-lattice configurations in synthetic antiferromagnets, i.e., a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Etienne van Walsem , Rembert A. Duine , Juriaan Lucassen , Reinoud Lavrijsen , Henk J. M. Swagten

Magnetic skyrmions, topologically stable spin textures, have attracted significant interest due to their potential applications in information storage and processing. They are typically stabilized by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-05 A. Vela Wac , F. A. Gómez Albarracín , D. C. Cabra

Topologically protected magnetic skyrmions in magnetic materials are stabilized by interfacial or bulk Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Interfacial DMI decays with increase of the magnetic layer thickness in just a few nanometers…

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…

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

We propose an alternative route to stabilize magnetic skyrmion textures which does not require Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction, magnetic anisotropy, or an external Zeeman field. Instead, it solely relies on the emergence of flux in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Yun-Peng Huang , Panagiotis Kotetes

Two-dimensional (2D) multiferroic materials with coexisting ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism have garnered substantial attention for their intriguing physical properties and diverse promising applications in spintronics. For example,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-27 Zuxin Fu , Kuanrong Hao , Min Guo , Jingjing He , Xiaohong Yan , Yangbo Zhou , Lei Shen , Jiaren Yuan