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Recent developments in the magnetization dynamics in spin textures, particularly skyrmions, offer promising new directions for magnetic storage technologies and spintronics. Skyrmions, characterized by their topological protection and…

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In the present research, we demonstrate the usage of plasmonic effects in thin film structures to control magnetic topological textures, specifically skyrmions and skyrmioniums. We investigate numerically the generation and alteration of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 W. Al Saidi , R. Sbiaa , Y. Dusch , N. Tiercelin

Skyrmions are topological defects belonging to nontrivial homotopy classes in particle theory. Their remarkably stable topology has recently been observed in electromagnetic waves. For the evanescent fields near a surface, this has been…

Topologically nontrivial field configurations called "baby skyrmions" behave like particles and give origins to the field of skyrmionics that promises racetrack memory and other technological applications. Unraveling the non-equilibrium…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-30 Paul J. Ackerman , Timothy Boyle , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Using both atomistic and particle-based simulations, we investigate the current-driven dynamics of skyrmions on two-dimensional periodic substrates when there are multiple skyrmions per substrate minimum. At zero drive, the system forms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , N. P. Vizarim , P. A. Venegas

Room-temperature polar skyrmion bubbles that are recently found in oxide superlattice, have received enormous interests for their potential applications in nanoelectronics due to the nanometer size, emergent chirality, and negative…

Light beams, with their rich degrees of freedom, including polarization and phase, along with their flexible tunability, have emerged as an ideal tool for generating magnetic topological textures.However, how to precisely control the light…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-03 Qifan Zhang , Shirong Lin , Wu Zhang

The creation and manipulation of photonic skyrmions provide a novel degree of freedom for light-matter interactions, optical communication and nanometrology. Since the localized vortex within skyrmions arises from the twist and curl of the…

Magnetic skyrmions are mesmerizing spin textures with peculiar topological and dynamical properties, typically the product of competing interactions in ferromagnets, and with great technological potential [1-5]. Researchers have long…

We theoretically study equilibrium and dynamic properties of nanosized magnetic skyrmions in thin magnetic films with broken inversion symmetry, where electric field couples to magnetization via spin-orbit coupling. Based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Pramey Upadhyaya , Guoqiang Yu , Pedram Khalili Amiri , Kang L. Wang

Skyrmions, as quasiparticles with topological spin textures, has recently garnered great attention for both condensed matter and structured wave communities, promising next-generation large-density robust information technologies. However,…

Exotic magnetic textures emerging from the subtle interplay between thermodynamic and topological fluctuation have attracted intense interest due to their potential applications in spintronic devices. Recent advances in electron microscopy…

Twistronics, the study of moir\'e superlattices of twisted bilayer 2D materials creating nontrivial physical effects, has recently revolutionized diverse subjects from materials to optoelectronics, nanophotonics, and beyond. Here, breaking…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-11 Vasu Dev , Yijie Shen

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral quasiparticles that show promise for future spintronic applications such as skyrmion racetrack memories and logic devices because of their topological stability, small size (typically $\sim3-500$ nm), and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-02 Wenrui Yang , Huanhuan Yang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Current-driven dynamics of spin textures plays a pivotal role in potential applications for electronic devices. While two-dimensional magnetic skyrmions with topologically nontrivial spin textures have garnered significant interest, their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-25 Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Twisted light carries orbital angular momentum (OAM) and can drive excitations of confined, interacting electrons that are dark to uniform dipolar probes. Here we show how this ``beyond-Kohn's-Theorem'' optical channel can become a concrete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Ferney J. Rodriguez , Luis Quiroga , Neil F. Johnson

The dynamic control of skyrmion properties such as polarity, vorticity, and topological charge is crucial for their implementation in spintronic applications. In this work, we investigate the periodic inversion of the topological charge in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 R. L. Silva , R. C. Silva

In photonics, twisted bi-layer systems have demonstrated unprecedented control over light-matter interactions, primarily through the modulation of photonic band structures and the formation of Moir\'e patterns. Meanwhile, magnetic photonic…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-10 You-Ming Liu , Shi-Kai Lin , Pei-Shi Li , Yi-Ran Hao , Biao Yang

Ultrathin bismuth exhibits rich physics including strong spin-orbit coupling, ferroelectricity, nontrivial topology, and light-induced structural dynamics. We use \textit{ab initio} calculations to show that light can induce structural…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-18 Bo Peng , Gunnar F. Lange , Daniel Bennett , Kang Wang , Robert-Jan Slager , Bartomeu Monserrat

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