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Skyrmions refer to small swirling spin structures that emerge in ferromagnetic materials and show promising features to be used as a `bit' of information in future spintronic devices. Our research explores the possibility of nucleating…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Tamali Mukherjee , Banasree Sadhukhan , V Satya Narayana Murthy

The manipulation and sorting of chiral nanoparticles are of fundamental importance in multidisciplinary fields ranging from biochemistry to nanophotonics. In this study, we propose a novel and controllable chirality sorting mechanism for…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-10 Hao Zhang , Xi Xie , Yijie Shen

Spontaneously emergent chirality is an issue of fundamental importance across the natural sciences. It has been argued that a unidirectional (chiral) rotation of a mechanical ratchet is forbidden in thermal equilibrium, but becomes possible…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-23 M. Mochizuki , X. Z. Yu , S. Seki , N. Kanazawa , W. Koshibae , J. Zang , M. Mostovoy , Y. Tokura , N. Nagaosa

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-sized topologically non-trivial spin textures that can be moved by external stimuli such as spin currents and internal stimuli such as spatial gradients of a material parameter. Since the total energy of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Ismael Ribeiro de Assis , Ingrid Mertig , Börge Göbel

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

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

Chirality is an intriguing property of certain molecules, materials or artificial nanostructures, which allows them to interact with the spin angular momentum of the impinging light field. Due to their chiral geometry, they can distinguish…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-03 Peter Banzer , Pawel Wozniak , Uwe Mick , Israel De Leon , Robert W. Boyd

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 solitons, such as skyrmions, arise in field theories of systems ranging from Bose-Einstein condensates to optics, particle physics, and cosmology, but they are rarely accessible experimentally. Chiral nematic liquid crystals…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Hayley R. O. Sohn , Changda D. Liu , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Controlled creation of localized magnetic textures beyond conventional $\pi$-skyrmions is an important problem in the field of magnetism. Here by means of spin dynamics simulations, Monte Carlo simulations and harmonic transition state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-22 Vladyslav M. Kuchkin , Pavel F. Bessarab , Nikolai S. Kiselev

Magnetic skyrmions, renowned for their fascinating electromagnetic properties, hold potential for next-generation topological spintronic devices. Recent advancements have unveiled a rich tapestry of 3D topological magnetism. Nevertheless,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Yaodong Wu , Jialiang Jiang , Weiwei Wang , Lingyao Kong , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du , Jin Tang

Non-volatile memory and computing technology rely on efficient read and write of ultra-tiny information carriers that do not wear out. Magnetic skyrmions are emerging as a potential carrier since they are topologically robust nanoscale spin…

The presence of chirality in the main molecules of life may well be not just a structural artifact, but of pure biological advantage. The possibility of the existence of a phenomenon of a special mode of interaction, labeled as "chiral…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gilat

Magnetic textures can be manipulated by electric currents via the mechanisms of spin-transfer and spin-orbit-torques. We review how these torques can be exploited to create chiral magnetic textures in magnets with broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Jan Masell , Karin Everschor-Sitte

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

Skyrmions and skyrmion crystal (SkX) discovered in chiral magnets show unique physical properties due to their nontrivial topology such as the stability against the annihilation and the motion driven by the ultralow current density, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Shintaro Hoshino , Naoto Nagaosa

Skyrmions in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction are expected to exist for essentially the same reasons as in DM ferromagnets (FM). It is shown that skyrmions in antiferromagnets with the DM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-10 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

We report the discovery and direct visualization of skyrmion clusters with mutually-orthogonal orientations of constituent isolated skyrmions in chiral liquid crystals and ferromagnets. We show that the nascent conical state underlies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Hayley. R. O. Sohn , Sergei M. Vlasov , Valeriy M. Uzdin , Andrey O. Leonov , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically-protected spin textures existing in helimagentic materials, which can be utilized as information carriers for non-volatile memories and logic circuits in spintronics. Searching simple and controllable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ya-qing Zheng , Yong Wang

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