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Magnetic skyrmions, as a whirling spin texture with axisymmetry, cannot be propelled by a uniform magnetic field. Therefore, reported skyrmion motions have been induced using other sorts of stimuli; typically, electric currents in magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Xiangjun Xing , Yan Zhou

Noncollinear spin textures in ferromagnetic ultrathin films are currently the subject of renewed interest since the discovery of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). This antisymmetric exchange interaction selects a…

We elucidate magnetic effects in the skyrmion system to probe into the dense nuclear matter. We find a deformed $\pi^0$ dipole structure of a baryon induced by a magnetic field. We then extend our scope to stacked Skyrme crystal layers to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-07 Shi Chen , Kenji Fukushima , Zebin Qiu

The profile and energy of chiral skyrmions, found in magnetic materials with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, can be approximated by formulae obtained through asymptotic analysis in the limits of small and large skyrmion radius. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Stavros Komineas , Christof Melcher , Stephanos Venakides

Symmetry breaking together with strong spin-orbit interaction give rise to many exciting phenomena within condensed matter physics. A recent example is the existence of chiral spin textures, which are observed in magnetic systems lacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Wanjun Jiang , Gong Chen , Kai Liu , Jiadong Zang , Suzanne G. E. te Velthuis , Axel Hoffmann

We study skyrmions in magnetic thin films with structural inversion asymmetry perpendicular to the film plane. We determine the magnetization texture of a single skyrmion and its dependence on the strength of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 M. E. Knoester , Jairo Sinova , R. A. Duine

Magnetic skyrmions are localized swirls of magnetization with a non-trivial topological winding number. This winding increases their robustness to superparamagnetism and gives rise to a myriad of novel dynamical properties, making them…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Richard Brearton , Gerrit van der Laan , Thorsten Hesjedal

Magnetic skyrmions are intriguing topological spin textures that have attracted great attention due to their potential for future spintronic devices. Skyrmions have so far been explored in different magnetic materials, such as ferromagnets,…

This paper delves into the origins and specificity of the unique stable spin textures (360{\deg} closed loop domain walls and skyrmions) observed in exchange-biased systems, with either in-plane or out-of-plane magnetic anisotropy. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Bernard Dieny , Olivier Fruchart , Ernesto E. Marinero

Using a general framework, interaction potentials between chiral magnetic solitons in a planar system with a tilted external magnetic field are calculated analytically in the limit of large separation. The results are compared to previous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Bruno Barton-Singer , Bernd J. Schroers

Structural symmetry breaking in magnetic materials is responsible for a variety of outstanding physical phenomena. Examples range from the existence of multiferroics, to current induced spin orbit torques (SOT) and the formation of…

When magnetic skyrmions move under spin orbit torque in magnetic nanowires, they experience a skyrmion Hall effect, which pushes them towards the nanowire edge where they risk being annihilated; this puts an upper limit on how fast they can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Xiangjun Xing , Johan Åkerman , Yan Zhou

We show that interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in combination with non-local Gilbert damping gives rise to unidirectional magnetic coupling. That is, the coupling between two magnetic layers -- say the left and right layer -- is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 H. Y. Yuan , R. Lavrijsen , R. A. Duine

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) between spins is induced by spin-orbit coupling in magnetic materials lacking inversion symmetry. DMI is recognized to play a crucial role at the interface between ferromagnetic (FM) and heavy…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-31 Hongxin Yang , André Thiaville , Stanislas Rohart , Albert Fert , Mairbek Chshiev

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that appear in magnets with broken spatial inversion symmetry via competition between the (anti)ferromagnetic exchange interactions and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Yuto Ohki , Masahito Mochizuki

We study untwisted heterobilayers of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic van der Waals materials, with in particular a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the ferromagnetic layer. A continuum low energy field theory is utilized to study…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-15 Kasra Hejazi , Zhu-Xi Luo , Leon Balents

The influence of in-plane and canted magnetic fields on spin spirals and skyrmions in atomic bilayer islands of palladium and iron on an Ir(111) substrate is investigated by scanning tunnelling microscopy at low temperatures. It is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Lorenz Schmidt , Julian Hagemeister , Pin-Jui Hsu , André Kubetzka , Kirsten von Bergmann , Roland Wiesendanger

Magnetic skyrmions with topologically nontrivial spin textures form a variety of periodic structures depending on microscopic interactions and lattice symmetry. We theoretically investigate a transformation between triangular and square…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-06 Satoru Hayami

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in a metallic chiral magnet. First we show that skyrmions can be created dynamically by destabilizing the ferromagnetic background state through a spin polarized current. We then treat skyrmions as rigid…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-14 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

Skyrmions dynamics in the approximation of point-particle skyrmions is considered in the multiferroic insulators, where the spiral magnetic structure is accompanied by finite electric dipole moment. The skyrmion motion is studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Pavel A. Andreev , Mariya Iv. Trukhanova