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Recently intrinsic ferromagnetism in two-dimensional(2D) van der Waals materials was discovered [1, 2, 3]. A monolayer of Chromiun triiodide(CrI3) is ferromagnetic while a bilayer structure was reported to be anti-ferro magnetic, moreover…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-30 E. Suarez Morell , Andrea León , R. Hiroki Miwa , P. Vargas

This study investigates the stability of skyrmions and biskyrmions in perpendicular magnetic tunneling junctions with a thick CoFeB/Ta/CoFeB free layer. The samples showed a magnetoresistance of ~ 41% when annealed at 230 {\deg}C. Magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 W. Al Saidi , S. Amara , M. T. Zar Myint , S. Al Harthi , G. Setti , R. Sbiaa

We describe the dynamics of magnetic skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets (SAF), with a finite interlayer coupling. Due to the opposite gyrovector of the skyrmions in the two SAF layers, the coupled skyrmions reach a stationary regime…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-06 Sujit Panigrahy , Sougata Mallick , Joao Sampaio , Stanislas Rohart

The recent discovery of antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulator (TI) MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ has triggered great research efforts on exploring novel magnetic topological physics. Based on first-principles calculations, we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Jiaheng Li , Chong Wang , Zetao Zhang , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Moir\'e systems have emerged in recent years as a rich platform to study strong correlations. Here, we will discuss a simple, experimentally feasible setup based on periodically strained graphene that reproduces several key aspects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Qiang Gao , Junkai Dong , Patrick Ledwith , Daniel Parker , Eslam Khalaf

The dynamics of antiferromagnets is a current hot topic in condensed matter physics and spintronics. However, the dynamics of insulating antiferromagnets cannot be excited by an electric current, which is a method usually used to manipulate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Guoping Zhao , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

We study speed and skew deflection-angle dependence on skyrmion deformations of a tightly bound two-skyrmion state in a synthetic ferrimagnet. We condsider here, an in-plane uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy-term in order to induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 P. E. Roy , Ruben M. Otxoa , C. Moutafis

We introduce a topologically distinct skyrmion, termed a spin-flux skyrmion, which shares the same real-space magnetization profile as a conventional skyrmion but differs fundamentally in its underlying topological structure. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Sandip Bera , Sajeev John

We investigate the instability toward a skyrmion crystal under an in-plane magnetic field in centrosymmetric tetragonal magnets. By performing the simulated annealing for a spin model on the square lattice, we find that the interplay among…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-06 Satoru Hayami

Topologically protected magnetic states in condensed matter physics, particularly antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmions (Sks) and bimerons (Bms), offer promising prospects for terahertz dynamics and sustained current-induced motion, thanks to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-30 Coline Thevenard , Miina Leiviskä , Richard F. L. Evans , Daria Gusakova , Vincent Baltz

We consider the interplay between magnetic skyrmions in an insulating thin film and the Dirac surface states of a 3D topological insulator (TI), coupled by proximity effect. The magnetic texture of skyrmions can lead to confinement of Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-28 Hilary M. Hurst , Dmitry K. Efimkin , Jiadong Zang , Victor Galitski

Magnetic skyrmions are regarded as promising information candidates in future spintronic devices, which have been investigated theoretically and experimentally in isotropic system. Recently, the sta- bilization of antiskyrmions in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Chengkun Song , Chendong Jin , Haiyan Xia , Jinshuai Wang , Yunxu Ma , Jianbo Wang , Qingfang Liu

We investigate skyrmion configuration and dynamics in antiferromagnetic thin disks. It is shown that the skyrmion acquires oscillatory dynamics with well-defined amplitude and frequency which may be controlled on demand by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 R. L. Silva , R. C. Silva , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

The commonly believed absence of skyrmion Hall effect for topologically trivial magnetic skyrmions is reconsidered for bilayer skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets driven by spin-transfer and spin-orbit torques. Using a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Mu-Kun Lee , Javier A. Vélez , Rubén M. Otxoa , Masahito Mochizuki

We report simulation results of skyrmions on fluctuating 2D lattices, where the vertices ${\bf r}_i (\in {\bf R}^3)$ are treated as a dynamical variable and, hence, there is no crystalline structure. On the fluctuating surfaces, an external…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-07 Sahbi EL Hog , Fumitake Kato , Hiroshi Koibuchi , Hung T. Diep

Spin-orbit torque (SOT)-induced magnetization switching shows promise for realizing ultrafast and reliable spintronics devices. Bipolar switching of perpendicular magnetization via SOT is achieved under an in-plane magnetic field collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 Shunsuke Fukami , Chaoliang Zhang , Samik DuttaGupta , Hideo Ohno

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin textures that their thermal stability originates from the nontrivial topology in nature. Recently, a plethora of topological spin textures have been theoretically predicted or experimentally observed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Yu Li , Yuzhe Zang , Runze Chen , Christoforos Moutafis

Achieving control over magnon spin currents in insulating magnets - where dissipation due to Joule heating is highly suppressed - is an active area of research that could lead to energy-efficient spintronics applications. However, magnon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-04 Sebastian A. Diaz , Tomoki Hirosawa , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Topologically protected whirling magnetic textures could emerge as data carriers in next-generation post-Moore computing. Such textures are abundantly observed in ferromagnets (FMs); however, their antiferromagnetic (AFM) counterparts are…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-13 Jack Harrison , Hariom Jani , Paolo G. Radaelli

The evolution of skyrmion crystal encapsulates skyrmion critical behaviors, such as nucleation, deformation and annihilation. Here, we achieve a tunable evolution of artificial skyrmion crystal in nanostructured synthetic antiferromagnet…