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An integer winding, i.e., topological charge, is a characteristic of skyrmions, which are topologically nontrivial spin patterns in magnets. They emerge when smooth two-dimensional spin configurations are stabilized by conflicting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Hillol Biswas

Multiple-$Q$ spin textures, such as magnetic bubble and skyrmion lattices, can be driven into motion by external stimuli. The motion of spin textures affects the electronic states. Here we show that to describe correctly the electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-19 Ying Su , Satoru Hayami , Shi-Zeng Lin

Merons are nontrivial topological spin textures highly relevant for many phenomena in solid state physics. Despite their importance, direct observation of such vortex quasiparticles is scarce and has been limited to a few complex materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-28 Mathias Augustin , Sarah Jenkins , Richard F. L. Evans , Kostya S. Novoselov , Elton J. G. Santos

The realization of topological antiferromagnetic (AFM) solitons in real materials is a major goal towards their use in information technology. While they bear various advantages with respect to their ferromagnetic cousins, their observation…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-09 Amal Aldarawsheh , Moritz Sallermann , Muayad Abusaa , Samir Lounis

Topological defects embedded in or combined with domain walls have been proposed in various systems, some of which are referred to as domain wall skyrmions or domain wall bimerons. However, the experimental observation of such topological…

Skyrmions are topological solitons that emerge in many physical contexts. In magnetism, they appear as textures of the spin-density field stabilized by different competing interactions and characterized by a topological charge that counts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Hector Ochoa , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We present topological features of the magnetic response (orbital and spin) of a two-dimensional degenerate and non interacting electron gas due to inhomogeneous applied magnetic fields. These issues are analysed from the point of view of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Akkermans , R. Narevich

We develop a field theory of quantum magnets and magnetic (semi)metals, which is suitable for the analysis of their universal and topological properties. The systems of interest include collinear, coplanar and general non-coplanar magnets.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Predrag Nikolić

Skyrmions with the topological number $Q$ equal an integer larger than 1 are called high-topological-number skyrmions or high-$Q$ skyrmions. In this work, we theoretically study the topological Hall effect in square-lattice high-$Q$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-14 Rui Zhu , Weinan Liu

We investigate the emergence of a topological magnon phase in a two-dimensional kagome ferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) and scalar spin chirality. By incorporating a chiral interaction term proportional to the scalar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Seif Alwan , Jonas Fransson

We demonstrate numerically on large spin lattices that one can write skyrmions in a thin magnetic film with a magnetic dipole of a few tens of nanometer in size. Nucleation of non-chiral skyrmions as well as chiral skyrmions formed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Dmitry A. Garanin , Daniel Capic , Senfu Zhang , Xixiang Zhang , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Half-integer topological defects in polariton condensates can be regarded as magnetic charges, with respect to built-in effective magnetic fields present in microcavities. We show how an integer topological defect can be separated into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 H. Flayac , D. Solnyshkov , G. Malpuech

Skyrmions are topologically protected entities in magnetic materials which have the potential to be used in spintronics for information storage and processing. However, Skyrmions in ferromagnets have some intrinsic difficulties which must…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Joseph Barker , Oleg A. Tretiakov

Skyrmions are small magnetic quasiparticles, which are uniquely characterized by their topological charge and their helicity. In this Rapid Communication, we show via calculations how both properties can be determined without relying on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Börge Göbel , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

Controlling electric and magnetic properties of matter by laser beams is actively explored in the broad region of condensed matter physics, including spintronics and magneto-optics. Here we theoretically propose an application of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Hiroyuki Fujita , Masahiro Sato

By examining rotating ferromagnetic spinor condensates through the perspective of large spin, we identify a novel type of topological point defects in the magnetization texture. These defects are not predicted by conventional homotopy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-27 Roy Rabaglia , Ryan Barnett , Ari M. Turner

We discuss in details the electron scattering pattern on skyrmion-like magnetic textures in two-dimensional geometry. The special attention is focused on analyzing the scattering asymmetry, which is a precursor of the topological Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 K. S. Denisov

Topological defects in ordered states with spontaneously broken symmetry often have unusual physical properties, such as fractional electric charge or a quantised magnetic field-flux, originating from their non-trivial topology. Coupled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-10 Sergey Artyukhin , Kris T. Delaney , Nicola A. Spaldin , Maxim Mostovoy

Fermion-number fractionalization without breaking of time-reversal symmetry was recently demonstrated for a field theory in $(2+1)$-dimensional space and time that describes the couplings between massive Dirac fermions, a complex-valued…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-07 Claudio Chamon , Chang-Yu Hou , Roman Jackiw , Christopher Mudry , So-Young Pi , Gordon Semenoff

Exploring the synergy between topological physics and nonlinear dynamics unveils profound insights into emergent states of matter. Inspired by recent experimental demonstrations of topological frequency combs in photonics, we theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Zhixiong Li , Xuejuan Liu , Zhejunyu Jin , Guanghua Guo , Xingen Zheng , Peng Yan