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Magnetic skyrmions are nano-sized topologically protected spin textures with particle-like properties. They can form lattices perpendicular to the magnetic field and the orientation of these skyrmion lattices with respect to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 L. J. Bannenberg , F. Qian , R. M. Dalgliesh , N. Martin , G. Chaboussant , M. Schmidt , D. L. Schlagel , T. A. Lograsso , H. Wilhelm , C. Pappas

Magnetic materials can host skyrmions, which are topologically non-trivial spin textures. In chiral magnets with cubic lattice symmetry, all previously-observed skyrmion phases require thermal fluctuations to become thermodynamically stable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-06 A. Chacon , L. Heinen , M. Halder , A. Bauer , W. Simeth , S. Mühlbauer , H. Berger , M. Garst , A. Rosch , C. Pfleiderer

We theoretically investigate the stability of a square skyrmion crystal (SkX) in a centrosymmetric tetragonal lattice structure with the emphasis on the role of the magnetic anisotropy arising from the absence of vertical mirror symmetry.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-01 Satoru Hayami , Ryota Yambe

Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasiparticles of great interest for data storage applications because of their small size, high stability, and ease of manipulation via electric current. Antiferromagnetic (AF) skyrmions, with new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-09 M. Mohylna , F. A. Gómez Albarracín , M. Žukovič , H. D. Rosales

We propose an alternative route to stabilize magnetic skyrmion textures which does not require Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction, magnetic anisotropy, or an external Zeeman field. Instead, it solely relies on the emergence of flux in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Yun-Peng Huang , Panagiotis Kotetes

We characterize the magnetic properties and domain structure of Pt/Ni/Co asymmetric superlattices in comparison to the more established Pt/Co/Ni structure. This reversal in stacking sequence leads to a marked drop in interfacial magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-12 Nisrit Pandey , Maxwell Li , Marc De Graef , Vincent Sokalski

Magnetic monopoles, despite their ongoing experimental search as elementary particles, have inspired the discovery of analogous excitations in condensed matter systems. In chiral condensed matter systems, emergent monopoles are responsible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-11 Jung-Shen B. Tai , Andrew J. Hess , Jin-Sheng Wu , Ivan I. Smalyukh

We have utilised a high spatial resolution imaging method, Differential Phase Contrast (DPC) performed in a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), for precise measurement of the magnetic induction distribution in skyrmion states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 D. McGrouther , R. J. Lamb , M. Krajnak , S. McFadzean , S. McVitie , R. L. Stamps , A. O. Leonov , A. N. Bogdanov , Y. Togawa

We report the emergence of a square-shaped skyrmion lattice in multi-orbital $f$-electron systems with easy-axis magnetic anisotropy on a centrosymmetric square lattice. By performing mean-field calculations for an effective localized model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-01 Yan Zha , Satoru Hayami

The tensile strain is a promising tool for creation and manipulation of magnetic solitonic textures in the chiral helimagnets via tunable control of magnetic anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Here, by using the in-situ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Victor Ukleev , Yuichi Yamasaki , Oleg Utesov , Kiyou Shibata , Naoya Kanazawa , Nicolas Jaouen , Yoshinori Tokura , Taka-hisa Arima

A skyrmion state in a non-centrosymmetric helimagnet displays topologically protected spin textures with profound technological implications for high density information storage, ultrafast spintronics, and effective microwave devices.…

Noncoplanar magnetic structures, such as magnetic skyrmions, are characterized by spin chirality and usually favored by antisymmetric exchange interactions in noncentrosymmetric magnets. Here, we show that a linearly polarized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-29 Atsushi Ono , Yutaka Akagi

The hedgehog lattice (HL) is a three-dimensional topological spin texture hosting a periodic array of magnetic monopoles and antimonopoles. It has been studied theoretically for noncentrosymmetric systems with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-17 Shun Okumura , Satoru Hayami , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Stabilization of skyrmions in a magnetic material without the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange interaction requires using of an inhomogeneous magnetic field, such as a demagnetization field or an Oersted field. To control and tune the local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Julia Kharlan , Mateusz Zelent , Konstantin Guslienko , Vladimir O. Golub , Jaroslaw W. Klos

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

The effects of disorder on the robustness of topological magnon states of two-dimensional ferromagnetic skyrmions is investigated. It is diagnosed by evaluating a real space topological invariant, the bosonic Bott index (BI). The disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 H. Diego Rosales , Roberto E. Troncoso

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

Topological swirling spin textures, such as skyrmions and merons, have recently attracted much attention as a unique building block for high-density magnetic information devices. The controlled transformation among different types of such…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-05 H. Yoshimochi , R. Takagi , J. Ju , N. D. Khanh , H. Saito , H. Sagayama , H. Nakao , S. Itoh , Y. Tokura , T. Arima , S. Hayami , T. Nakajima , S. Seki

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

Exchange anisotropy provides a direction dependent mechanism for the stability of the skyrmion lattice phase in noncentrosymmetric bulk chiral magnets. Based on the Fourier representation of the skyrmion lattice, we explain the direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 Yangfan Hu