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We observe metastable localized spin configurations with topological charges ranging from $Q=-3$ to $Q=2$ in a (Pt$_{0.95}$Ir$_{0.05}$)/Fe bilayer on Pd$(111)$ surface by performing spin dynamics simulations, using a classical Hamiltonian…

The skyrmion is a topologically stable spin texture, in which the spin direction wraps a sphere. The topological nature gives rise to emergent electromagnetic phenomena such as topological Hall effect. Recently, the crystallization of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 Y. Onose , Y. Okamura , S. Seki , S. Ishiwata , Y. Tokura

Topological magnetic skyrmions in centrosymmetric systems exhibit a higher degrees of freedom in their helicity, hence possess a great potential in the advanced spintronics including skyrmion based quantum computation. However, the…

Skyrmion crystals have been primarily discovered under a magnetic field for materials with non-centrosymmetric interactions. More recent developments have investigated the stability of skyrmion crystals in itinerant magnets without magnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-21 H. Bocquet , C. J. Ganahl , M. Scheurer , P. M. Derlet , A. M. Läuchli

Topological spin structures, such as magnetic skyrmions, hold great promises for data storage applications, thanks to their inherent stability. In most cases, skyrmions are stabilized by magnetic fields in non-centrosymmetric systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Danila Amoroso , Paolo Barone , Silvia Picozzi

Two-dimensional chiral magnets are known to host a variety of skyrmions, characterized by an integer topological charge. However, these systems typically favor uniform lattices as a thermodynamically stable phase composed of either…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Sayan Banik , Nikolai S. Kiselev , Ashis K. Nandy

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

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

Topological particle-like excitations such as skyrmions and hopfions offer rich opportunities for spintronic and photonic applications. While skyrmions have been extensively studied, the stabilization mechanisms and phase behavior of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Andrey O. Leonov , Takayuki Shigenaga

Magnetic vortices and skyrmions represent two fundamental classes of topological spin textures in ferromagnetic systems, distinguished by their unique stabilization mechanisms and degrees of freedom. Vortices, characterized by circular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Haobing Zhang , Xintao Fan , Weiwei Wang

A spin texture called skyrmion has been recently observed in certain chiral magnets without inversion symmetry. The observed skyrmions are extended objects with typical linear sizes of 10 nm to 100 nm that contain $10^3$ to $10^5$ spins and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-24 Shi-Zeng Lin , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

I revisit the well-known phase transition between the hexagonal skyrmion lattice and the homogeneous state within the phenomenological Dzyaloshinskii theory for chiral magnets which includes only the exchange, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Andrey O. Leonov

We study the emergence of spontaneous skyrmion lattices in an Fe monolayer in fcc and hcp stacking on the Ir(111) surface using density functional theory (DFT). For fcc-Fe/Ir(111) we find the well-known square nanoskyrmion lattice. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-07 Mara Gutzeit , Tim Drevelow , Moritz A. Goerzen , Soumyajyoti Haldar , Stefan Heinze

The static and dynamic states of N\'eel skyrmions in ultrathin ferromagnetic films with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) have been micromagnetically simulated as functions of the interfacial DMI strength and applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-02 Vanessa Li Zhang , Chen Guang Hou , Kai Di , Hock Siah Lim , Ser Choon Ng , Shawn David Pollard , Hyunsoo Yang , Meng Hau Kuok

Chiral magnets are an emerging class of topological matter harbouring localized and topologically protected vortex-like magnetic textures called skyrmions, which are currently under intense scrutiny as a new entity for information storage…

Skyrmions are spatially localized magnetic swirls which carry a nonzero integer topological charge. We study crystals of skyrmions in a two-dimensional ferromagnet model with chiral interactions induced by the presence of broken inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-22 Sopheak Sorn , Stefan Divic , Arun Paramekanti

The successful realization of skyrmion-based spintronic devices depends on the easy manipulation of underlying magnetic interactions in the skyrmion-hosting materials. Although the mechanism of skyrmion formation in non-centrosymmetric…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-28 Dola Chakrabartty , Sk Jamaluddin , Subhendu K. Manna , Ajaya K. Nayak

Magnetic skyrmions are nanometric swirling spin textures that exhibit remarkable stability at finite temperatures, making them promising candidates for spintronic applications. Achieving controllable stability and transitions between…

Topological spin textures, like skyrmions, have significant potential for spintronics applications. The main purpose of this work is to study further the topological spin textures on the discrete lattice with magnetic fields. In this work,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Lipeng Jin , Bin Xi , Yongjun Liu
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