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The electric control of quantum spin chains has been an outstanding goal for the few last years due to its potential use in technologies related to quantum information processing. In this work, we show the feasibility of the different steps…

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We present a metaheuristic conditional neural-network-based method aimed at identifying physically interesting metastable states in a potential energy surface of high rugosity. To demonstrate how this method works, we identify and analyze…

Certain nematic liquid crystals, e.g., those formed by banana-shaped molecules, can exhibit a low-temperature twist-bend nematic (Ntb) phase. Upon addition of chiral dopants, a chiral version of the twist-bend phase (N*tb) can be observed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-08 Natalia Kasian , Longin Lisetski , Igor Gvozdovskyy

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

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

We develop a quantum theory of magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions in a spin-1/2 Heisenberg magnet with frustrating next-nearest neighbor interactions. Using exact diagonalization we show numerically that a quantum skyrmion exists as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-01 Vivek Lohani , Ciarán Hickey , Jan Masell , Achim Rosch

In the present work, using micromagnetic simulation, we show that the magnetic coupling effect plays a very important role in the process of creation of skyrmions in a coupled system of spin-torque nano-oscillators (STNO). First, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 H. Vigo-Cotrina , A. P. Guimarães

Symmetry breaking together with strong spin-orbit interaction give rise to many exciting phenomena within condensed matter physics. A recent example is the existence of chiral spin textures, which are observed in magnetic systems lacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Wanjun Jiang , Gong Chen , Kai Liu , Jiadong Zang , Suzanne G. E. te Velthuis , Axel Hoffmann

A key issue for skyrmion dynamics and devices are pinning effects present in real systems. While posing a challenge for the realization of conventional skyrmionics devices, exploiting pinning effects can enable non-conventional computing…

The topologically protected magnetic spin configurations known as skyrmions offer promising applications due to their stability, mobility and localization. In this work, we emphasize how to leverage the thermally driven dynamics of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Daniele Pinna , Flavio Abreu Araujo , Joo-Von Kim , Vincent Cros , Damien Querlioz , Perre Bessiere , Jacques Droulez , Julie Grollier

Magnetic skyrmion motion induced by an electric current has drawn much interest because of its application potential in next-generation magnetic memory devices. Recently, unidirectional skyrmion motion driven by an oscillating magnetic…

The all-optical control of magnetization at room temperature broadens the scope of applications of spin degrees-of-freedom in data storage, spintronics, and quantum computing. Topological magnetic spin structures, such as skyrmions, are of…

Skyrmions are emerging topological spin structures that are potentially revolutionary for future data storage and spintronics applications. The existence and stability of skyrmions in magnetic materials is usually associated to the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 R. L. Novak , F. Garcia , E. R. P. Novais , J. P. Sinnecker , A. P. Guimarães

Topological surface states are a class of novel electronic states that are of potential interest in quantum computing or spintronic applications. Unlike conventional two-dimensional electron states, these surface states are expected to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-16 Jungpil Seo , Pedram Roushan , Haim Beidenkopf , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , Ali Yazdani

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

The rotational and hyperfine spectrum of the $X^1\Sigma^+ \rightarrow B^3\Pi_1$ transition in TlF molecules was measured using laser-induced fluorescence from both a thermal and a cryogenic molecular beam. Rotational and hyperfine constants…

Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasi particles of great interest for data storage applications because of their small size, high stability, and ease of manipulation via electric current. Theoretically, however, skyrmions are poorly…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-20 Felix Büttner , Ivan Lemesh , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

A new topological excitation called skyrmion has been observed experimentally in chiral magnets without spatial inversion symmetry. The dynamics of a skyrmion is equivalent to an electron moving in a strong magnetic field. As a skyrmion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-14 Shi-Zeng Lin , Lev N. Bulaevskii

Skyrmions are localized, topologically non-trivial spin structures which have raised high hopes for future spintronic applications. A key issue is skyrmion stability with respect to annihilation into the ferromagnetic state. Energy barriers…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 S. von Malottki , B. Dupé , P. F. Bessarab , A. Delin , S. Heinze

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures with potential applications in memory and logic devices. Skyrmions have been commonly observed in systems with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction due to broken inversion symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Jyotirish Das , Muhammad Akram , Onur Erten