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Skyrmions, topologically-protected nanometric spin vortices, are being investigated extensively in various magnets. Among them, many of structurally-chiral cubic magnets host the triangular-lattice skyrmion crystal (SkX) as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-19 K. Karube , J. S. White , N. Reynolds , J. L. Gavilano , H. Oike , A. Kikkawa , F. Kagawa , Y. Tokunaga , H. M. Rønnow , Y. Tokura , Y. Taguchi

The melting and magnetic disordering of the skyrmion lattice in the quantum Hall system at filling factor $\nu\approx 1$ are studied. A Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless renormalization group theory is employed to describe the coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Carsten Timm , S. M. Girvin , H. A. Fertig

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

Skyrmions are spatially localized magnetic swirls which carry a nonzero integer topological charge. We study crystals of skyrmions in a two-dimensional ferromagnet model with chiral interactions induced by the presence of broken inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-22 Sopheak Sorn , Stefan Divic , Arun Paramekanti

Skyrmions in condensed matter physics appear as classical topological spin structures. This nontrivial state can be obtained solving the corresponding micromagnetic model, where the magnetization is treated as a continuous classical vector…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-28 O. M. Sotnikov , V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois , F. Mila , M. I. Katsnelson , E. A. Stepanov

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

Skyrmions--topologically protected nanoscale spin textures with vortex-like configurations--hold transformative potential for ultra-dense data storage, spintronics and quantum computing. However, their practical utility is challenged by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Lei Liu , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

The Quantum Hall ground state away from $\nu = 1$ can be described by a collection of interacting skyrmions. We show within the context of a nonlinear sigma model, that the classical ground state away from $\nu = 1$ is a skyrmion crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Madan Rao , Surajit Sengupta , R. Shankar

The skyrmion crystal is a periodic array of a swirling topological spin texture. Since it is regarded as an interference pattern by multiple helical spin density waves, the texture changes with the relative phases among the constituent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-15 Satoru Hayami , Tsuyoshi Okubo , Yukitoshi Motome

Quantum skyrmionic phase is modelled in a 2D helical spin lattice. This topological skyrmionic phase retains its nature in a large parameter space before moving to a ferromagnetic phase. Next nearest-neighbour interaction improves the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-18 Vipin Vijayan , L. Chotorlishvili , A. Ernst , S. S. P. Parkin , M. I. Katsnelson , S. K. Mishra

Using a self consistent approximation for the spin distribution of Skyrmions in the quantum Hall effect, we obtain an effective action for the Skyrmion coordinates. The energy functional is minimised for a periodic distribution of Skyrmions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-15 A. G. Green , I. I. Kogan , A. M. Tsvelik

Topologically nontrivial field configurations called "baby skyrmions" behave like particles and give origins to the field of skyrmionics that promises racetrack memory and other technological applications. Unraveling the non-equilibrium…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-30 Paul J. Ackerman , Timothy Boyle , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Skyrmion crystals have been primarily discovered under a magnetic field for materials with non-centrosymmetric interactions. More recent developments have investigated the stability of skyrmion crystals in itinerant magnets without magnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-21 H. Bocquet , C. J. Ganahl , M. Scheurer , P. M. Derlet , A. M. Läuchli

We investigate the domain wall skyrmions phase in the framework of holographic quantum chromodynamics (QCD) using the Sakai-Sugimoto model. Building on previous work regarding chiral soliton lattices (CSLs) in strong magnetic fields, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Suat Dengiz , İzzet Sakallı

The competition between external drives and interparticle interactions are important for the static and dynamic properties of topological quasiparticles in confined geometries. Here, we study the dynamics of particlelike skyrmions under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Xiaoxi Liu

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

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures with non-trivial topology that comprise two-dimensional quasi-particles and are promising information carriers for data storage and processing devices. Skyrmion lattices in magnetic thin films…

Quantum states of a skyrmion in a 2D antiferromagnetic lattice are obtained by quantizing the scaling parameter of Belavin-Polyakov model. Skyrmion classical collapse due to violation of the translational invariance of the continuous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 A. Derras-Chouk , E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

Topological solitons are crucial to many branches of physics, such as models of fundamental particles in quantum field theory, information carriers in nonlinear optics, and elementary entities in quantum and classical computations. Chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 X. R. Wang , X. C. Hu

Topologically stable matters can have a long lifetime, even if thermodynamically costly, when the thermal agitation is sufficiently low. A magnetic skyrmion lattice (SkL) represents a unique form of long-range magnetic order that is…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-08 H. Oike , A. Kikkawa , N. Kanazawa , Y. Taguchi , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura , F. Kagawa