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Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures with rich physics and great potential for unconventional computing. Typically, skyrmions form in bulk crystals with reduced symmetry or ultrathin film multilayers involving heavy metals. Here, we…

Magnetic skyrmion, a swirling spin texture, in chiral magnets is characterized by (i) nano-scale size ($\sim$1nm -- 100nm), (ii) topological stability, and (iii) gyro-dynamics. These features are shown to be advantageous for (a)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 W. Koshibae , Y. Kaneko , J. Iwasaki , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura , N. Nagaosa

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

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures with attractive features, such as ultra-small size, solitonic nature, and easy mobility with small electrical currents that make them promising as information-carrying bits in low-power…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Md Golam Morshed , Hamed Vakili , Avik W. Ghosh

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic spin structures exhibiting particle-like behaviour. They are of strong interest from a fundamental viewpoint and for application, where they have potential to act as information carriers in future…

Topological spin textures in frustrated intermetallics hold great promise for spintronics applications. However, understanding their origin and properties remains a significant challenge due to competing and often long-range interactions…

Topological spin configurations, such as soliton-like spin texture and Dirac electron assemblies, have emerged in recent years in both fundamental science and technological applications. Achieving stable topological spin textures at…

Magnetic skyrmion crystals are traditionally associated with non-centrosymmetric crystal structures; however, it has been demonstrated that skyrmion crystals can be stabilized by competing interactions in centrosymmetric crystals. To…

Chiral magnetic textures in ultrathin perpendicularly magnetised multilayer film stacks with an interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction have been the focus of much research recently. The chirality associated with the broken inversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 K. Fallon , S. McVitie , W. Legrand , F. Ajejas , D. Maccariello , S. Collin , V. Cros , N. Reyren

Magnetic skyrmion is a topologically stable particle-like swirling spin texture potentially suitable for high-density information bit, which was first observed in noncentrosymmetric magnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Recently,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-01 N. D. Khanh , T. Nakajima , S. Hayami , S. Gao , Y. Yamasaki , H. Sagayama , H. Nakao , R. Takagi , Y. Motome , Y. Tokura , T. Arima , S. Seki

Skyrmions are spin-swirling textures hosting wonderful properties with potential implications in information technology. Such magnetic particles carry a magnetization, whose amplitude is crucial to establish them as robust magnetic bits,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Imara Lima Fernandes , Samir Lounis

Magnetic skyrmions (or vortices) are spatially inhomogeneous spin textures localized in nanoscale cylindrical regions. Topological protection and small size make skyrmions especially attractive for the study of spin topology and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Alexei N. Bogdanov , Christos Panagopoulos

Topological magnetism has sparked an unprecedented age in quantum technologies. Marked by twisted spin structures with exotic dynamical modes, topological magnets have motivated a new generation of spintronic devices which transcend the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-16 M. E. Henderson , D. G. Cory , D. Sarenac , D. A. Pushin

In this letter, we report the visualization of topologically protected spin textures, in the form of magnetic skyrmions, in recently discovered monoatomic-thin two-dimensional CrI$_3$. By combining density functional theory and atomistic…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-24 Aroop K. Behera , Sugata Chowdhury , Suprem R. Das

We report three-dimensional topological spin configurations including a novel form of skyrmion-antiskyrmion coupling in D2d chiral magnets. The skyrmion-antiskyrmion coupled string, consisting of skyrmions located in the near-surface layers…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-11 Jin Tang , Yaodong Wu , Jialiang Jiang , Lingyao Kong , Wei Liu , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du

Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasiparticles in magnetic field. Until recently, as one of their photonic counterparts, N\'eel-type photonic skyrmion is discovered in surface plasmon polaritons. The deep-subwavelength features of the…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-02 Qiang Zhang , Zhenwei Xie , Luping Du , Peng Shi , Xiaocong Yuan

The creation and annihilation of magnetic skyrmions are mediated by three dimensional topological defects known as Bloch points. Investigation of such dynamical processes is important both for understanding the emergence of exotic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 M. T. Birch , D. Cortés-Ortuño , N. D. Khanh , S. Seki , A. Štefančič , G. Balakrishnan , Y. Tokura , P. D. Hatton

The magnetic skyrmion structure can be formed in the chiral magnets (CMs) with strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. In this work, we propose a way of artificially tailoring the topological details of the skyrmion such as its radial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 Yin-Yan Zhang , Rui Zhu

Skyrmions are topologically protected quantum objects at the nanometre scale. They form perpendicular to an applied magnetic field at a certain temperature and arrange themselves in a typically hexagonal lattice. Using small angle neutron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-07 J. Sauceda Flores , R. Rov , J. O'Brien , S. Yick , Md. F. Pervez , M. Spasovski , J. Vella , N. Booth , E. P. Gilbert , Oleg A. Tretiakov , T. Söhnel , C. Ulrich

Magnetic skyrmion, a topological magnetic domain with complex non-coplanar spin texture, appears a disk-like structure in two dimensions. Exploring three-dimensional spin texture and related chirality switching has drawn enormous interests…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-26 Yuan Yao , Bei Ding , Jinjing Liang , Hang Li , Xi Shen , Richeng Yu , Wenhong Wang