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We investigate, using experiments and numerical simulations, the distortions and the alignment of skyrmions in the liquid crystal under external flows for a range of average flow velocities. The simulations are based on the Landau-de Gennes…

In this work, we study the microscopic dynamics of distorted skyrmions in strained chiral magnets [K. Shibata et al., Nat. Nanotech. 10, 589 (2015)] under gradient magnetic field or electric current by Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert simulations of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 J. Chen , J. J. Liang , J. H. Yu , M. H. Qin , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , S. Dong , J. -M. Liu

Thin-film sub-5 nm magnetic skyrmions constitute an ultimate scaling alternative for future digital data storage. Skyrmions are robust non-collinear spin-textures that can be moved and manipulated by small electrical currents. We show here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 Dax M. Crum , Mohammed Bouhassoune , Juba Bouaziz , Benedikt Schweflinghaus , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis

Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasi particles of great interest for data storage applications because of their small size, high stability, and ease of manipulation via electric current. Theoretically, however, skyrmions are poorly…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-20 Felix Büttner , Ivan Lemesh , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

Inspired by holographic Wilsonian renormalization, we consider coarse graining a quantum system divided between short distance and long distance degrees of freedom, coupled via the Hamiltonian. Observations using purely long distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Cesar Agon , Vijay Balasubramanian , Skyler Kasko , Albion Lawrence

The skyrmion, which is characterised by a topological integer, is a structure that is topologically stable against local disturbances. The huge potential of skyrmions for use in magnetic storage systems has drawn considerable research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Jie Zhu , Sheng Liu , Yong-Sheng Zhang

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…

Light provides a powerful means of controlling physical behavior of materials but is rarely used to power and guide active matter systems. We demonstrate optical control of liquid crystalline topological solitons dubbed "skyrmions", which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-22 Hayley R. O. Sohn , Changda D. Liu , Robert Voinescu , Zezhang Chen , Ivan I. Smalyukh

The motion of skyrmions along ferromagnetic strips driven by current pulses is theoretically analyzed by means of micromagnetic simulations. Analytical expressions describing the skyrmion dynamics during and after the current pulse are…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-19 Victor Raposo , Ricardo Francisco Luis Martinez , Eduardo Martinez

Skyrmions are highly stable chiral magnetic spin textures with non-trivial topology. They can act as quasi-particles that can be generated, manipulated and annihilated, and hold promise for future memory and logic devices. As of now,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 M. G. van der Schans , W. P. M. de Kleijne , M. A. Brozius , B. Koopmans

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like objects with topologically-protected stability which can be set into motion with an applied current. Using a particle-based model we simulate current-driven magnetic skyrmions interacting with random…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-09 Sebastian A. Diaz , C. J. O. Reichhardt , Daniel P. Arovas , Avadh Saxena , C. Reichhardt

In recent papers, we have argued that kinetically constrained coarse grained models can be applied to understand dynamic properties of glass forming materials, and we have used this approach in various applications that appear to validate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 David Chandler , Juan P. Garrahan

Diffusion of particles has wide repercussions ranging from particle-based soft matter systems to solid state systems with particular electronic properties. Recently, in the field of magnetism, diffusion of magnetic skyrmions, topologically…

Recently, there has been substantial interest in realizations of skyrmions, in particular in 2D systems due to increased stability resulting from reduced dimensionality. A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Utkan Güngördü , Rabindra Nepal , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Kirill Belashchenko , Alexey A. Kovalev

Topologically stable field configurations appear in many fields of physics, from elementary particles to condensed matter and cosmology. During the last decade, chiral liquid crystals and chiral magnets took on the role of model objects for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Andrey O. Leonov , Catherine Pappas , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Skyrmions with topologically stable configurations have shown a promising route toward magnetic and photonic materials for information processing due to their defect-immune and low-driven energy. However, the practical application of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Liyun Cao , Sheng Wan , Yi Zeng , Yifan Zhu , Badreddine Assouar

We study the geometrical conditions for stabilizing magnetic skyrmions in cylindrical nanostrips and nanotubes of ferromagnetic materials with chiral interactions. We obtain the low-temperature equilibrium state of the system implementing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-28 Dimitris Kechrakos , Lida Tzannetou , Aristotelis Patsopoulos

Optical skyrmions, which are topological protection quasi-particles with nontrivial textures, hold a pivotal focus in current structured light research for their potential in diverse applications. In this work, the angular spectrum theory…

Skyrmions are chiral swirling magnetization structures with nanoscale size. These structures have attracted considerable attention due to their topological stability and promising applicability in nanodevices, since they can be displaced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Swapneel Amit Pathak , Riccardo Hertel

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya materials with easy-axis anisotropy. An important link between topology and dynamics is established through the construction of unambiguous conservation laws obtained earlier in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou