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Magnetic skyrmion is a promising building block for developing information storage and computing devices. It can be stabilized in a ferromagnetic thin film with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). The moving ferromagnetic skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Qiming Shao , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

The Shastry-Sutherland model and its generalizations have been shown to capture emergent complex magnetic properties from geometric frustration in several quasi-two-dimensional quantum magnets. Using an $sd$ exchange model, we show here…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-30 N. Swain , M. Shahzad , G. V. Paradezhenko , A. A. Pervishko , D. Yudin , P. Sengupta

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically-protected spin textures that exhibit fascinating physical behaviors and large potential in highly energy efficient spintronic device applications. The main obstacles so far are that skyrmions have been…

We study the Skyrmion dynamics in thin films under a temperature gradient. Our numerical simulations show that both single and multiple Skyrmions in a crystal move towards the high temperature region, which is contrary to particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lingyao Kong , Jiadong Zang

The thermal Hall effect has emerged as a fundamental tool for probing exotic quasiparticles and topological order, particularly in magnetic insulators where electronic conduction is suppressed. Much like skyrmions, which are characterized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ferenc Márkus , Katalin Gambár

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures with a nontrivial topology that offer a potential for future magnetic memory and storage devices. The controlled formation and adjustment of size and density of magnetic skyrmions in Ta/CoFeB/MgO…

Understanding skyrmion-skyrmion interactions is crucial for effectively manipulating the motion of multiple skyrmions in racetrack and logic devices. However, the fundamental nature and microscopic origins of these interactions remain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Xuchong Hu , Huaiyang Yuan , Xiangrong Wang

Using both atomistic and particle-based simulations, we investigate the current-driven dynamics of skyrmions on two-dimensional periodic substrates when there are multiple skyrmions per substrate minimum. At zero drive, the system forms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , N. P. Vizarim , P. A. Venegas

Skyrmions are vortex-like textures of magnetic moments found in some magnetically ordered materials. Here we describe the origin of the skyrmion and discuss the experimental realization of skyrmions in magnetic materials, the dynamic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-23 Tom Lancaster

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable whirlpool-like spin textures that offer great promise as information carriers for future ultra-dense memory and logic devices1-4. To enable such applications, particular attention has been focused…

Exotic spin textures viz. chiral domain wall, vortices, skyrmion, skyrmionium, etc. have recently emerged as active field of research because of their potential applications in high density data storage technology and logic gate computing.…

Skyrmions are topologically protected, two-dimensional, localized hedgehogs and whorls of spin. Originally invented as a concept in field theory for nuclear interactions, skyrmions are central to a wide range of phenomena in condensed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 M. Raju , A. Yagil , Anjan Soumyanarayanan , Anthony K. C. Tan , A. Almoalem , O. M. Auslaender , C. Panagopoulos

We theoretically study equilibrium and dynamic properties of nanosized magnetic skyrmions in thin magnetic films with broken inversion symmetry, where electric field couples to magnetization via spin-orbit coupling. Based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Pramey Upadhyaya , Guoqiang Yu , Pedram Khalili Amiri , Kang L. Wang

Motivated by the recent observation [Zeissler et al, Nature Comm. 11, 428 (2020)] of enigmatic radius-independent skyrmion Hall angle in chiral magnets, we derive skyrmion Hall angle based on the recent solution of skyrmions characterized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Sandip Bera , Sudhansu S. Mandal

Magnetic skyrmions stabilized by interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI) are promising candidates for applications in memory, logic, and neuromorphic computing. Beyond planar films, theoretical studies predict that curvature…

A microscopic description of (baby)skyrmions in quantum Hall ferromagnets is derived from a scattering theory of collective (neutral) spin modes by a bare quasiparticle. We start by mapping the low lying spectrum of spin waves in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. H. Oaknin , B. Paredes , C. Tejedor

Skyrmions are topological magnetic textures, mostly treated classically, studied extensively due to their potential spintronics applications due to their topological stability. However, it remains unclear what physical phenomena…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-16 Dhiman Bhowmick , Andreas Haller , Deepak S. Kathyat , Thomas L. Schmidt , Pinaki Sengupta

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya materials with easy-axis anisotropy. An important link between topology and dynamics is established through the construction of unambiguous conservation laws obtained earlier in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

Recent experiments have reported on controlled nucleation of individual skyrmions in chiral magnets. Here we show that in magnetic ultra-thin films with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, single skyrmions of different radii can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-14 Sebastian A. Diaz , Daniel P. Arovas

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures known for their robustness against perturbations. Their topological stability makes them robust information carriers, ideal for tackling a key challenge in quantum computing:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Haowen Yang , Gerald Bissell , Han Zhong , Peter Van Kirk , Tiger Cao , Pengcheng Lu , Yingying Wu