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Quantization of topological charges determines the various topological spin textures that are expected to play a key role in future spintronic devices. While the magnetic skyrmion with a unit topological charge Q has been extensively…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-29 Jin Tang , Yaodong Wu , Weiwei Wang , Lingyao Kong , Boyao Lv , Wensen Wei , Jiadong Zang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du

Real-space topological magnetic structures such as skyrmions and merons are promising candidates for information storage and transport. However, the microscopic mechanisms that control their formation and evolution are still not clear.…

Since the 1950s, topological solitons have been used to describe elementary particles[1-3] and particle-like field configurations[4-13] that appear in almost all branches of physics ranging from subatomic to cosmological scales[3,14-16]. In…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-11-08 Yangfan Hu

Magnetic skyrmions are vortex-like quasiparticles characterized by long lifetime and remarkable topological properties. That makes them a promising candidate for the role of information carriers in magnetic information storage and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Fabio Salvati , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Andrey A. Bagrov , Tom Westerhout

A novel type of charged excitation, known as a Skyrmion, has recently been discovered in quantum Hall systems with filling factor near \nu = 1. A Skyrmion -- which can be thought of as a topological twist in the spin density of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Portengen , J. R. Chapman , V. Nikos Nicopoulos , N. F. Johnson

We present an analysis of spin-textures in Quantum Hall droplets, for filling factors $\nu \simeq 1$. Analytical wavefunctions with well defined quantum numbers are given for the low-lying states of the system which result to be either bulk…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. H. Oaknin , L. Martin-Moreno , C. Tejedor

The nature of the skyrmion-crystal (SkX) formation and various multiple-$q$ phases encompassing the SkX phase are investigated by extensive Monte Carlo simulations on the frustrated $J_1$-$J_3$ triangular-lattice Heisenberg model with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-26 Hikaru Kawamura

Coexisting phases of magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions have proposed to exhibit a variety of fascinating properties, owing to interactions between them. The recent discovery of the coexisting phase in a Heusler material could offer a…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-27 Daigo Shimizu , Tomoki Nagase , Yeong-Gi So , Makoto Kuwahara , Nobuyuki Ikarashi , Masahiro Nagao

We study the low-energy magnon spectrum of the skyrmion crystal (SkX) ground state, appearing in two-dimensional ferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and magnetic field. We approximate SkX hexagonal superlattice by a set of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-02 D. N. Aristov , A. V. Tsypilnikov

Quantum Spin Liquids (QSLs) are phases of interacting spins that do not order even at the absolute zero temperature, making it impossible to characterize them by a local order parameter. In this article, we review the unique view provided…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-06 Tarun Grover , Yi Zhang , Ashvin Vishwanath

Quantum spin liquids are long-range entangled states of matter with emergent gauge fields and fractionalized excitations. While candidate materials, such as the Kitaev honeycomb ruthenate $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, show magnetic order at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-16 I. Rousochatzakis , S. Kourtis , J. Knolle , R. Moessner , N. B. Perkins

The hallmark of a skyrmion crystal (SkX) is the topological Hall effect (THE). In this Article, we predict and explain an unconventional behavior of the topological Hall conductivity in SkXs. In simple terms, the spin texture of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-14 Börge Göbel , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

We propose the first Skyrmion Spin Ice, realized via confined, interacting liquid crystal skyrmions. Skyrmions in a chiral nematic liquid crystal behave as quasi-particles that can be dynamically confined, bound, and created or annihilated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-03 Ayhan Duzgun , Cristiano Nisoli

The identification of general principles for stabilizing magnetic skyrmion phases in bulk materials over wide ranges of temperatures is a prerequisite to the development of skyrmion-based spintronic devices. Lacunar spinels with the formula…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-12 Daniil A. Kitchaev , Emily C. Schueller , Anton Van der Ven

This article is an introductory review of the physics of quantum spin liquid (QSL) states. Quantum magnetism is a rapidly evolving field, and recent developments reveal that the ground states and low-energy physics of frustrated spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-21 Yi Zhou , Kazushi Kanoda , Tai-Kai Ng

By means of Monte Carlo simulations, using finite size scaling and conformal transformations, evidences of a topological phase transition in liquid crystals in two dimensions are reported. A paramagnetic phase appears at high temperature…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-13 V. Ricardo Paredes , Ana I. Fariñas-Sánchez , Bertrand Berche

Quantum Hall skyrmions are quantized solitons of a ferromagnetic O(3) sigma-model. The reference, classical, solutions depend upon the interaction between the electrons and exhibit completely different asymptotic profiles for the physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. H. Rezayi , S. L. Sondhi

We present an investigation into the structural and magnetic properties of Zn-substituted Cu$_{2}$OSeO$_{3}$, a system in which the skyrmion lattice (SkL) phase in the magnetic field-temperature phase diagram was previously seen to split as…

Topologically ordered quantum liquids are highly sought-after quantum phases of matter, and recently, fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) joined the few experimental realizations of such phases. Here, we ask whether a gapped classical,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Hao Chen , Dan Mao , Andrea Kouta Dagnino , Glenn Wagner , Mark H. Fischer , Juraj Hasik , Eun-Ah Kim , Titus Neupert

Skyrmions, topologically protected textures, have been observed in different fields of nanotechnology and have emerged as promising candidates for different applications due to their topological stability, low-power operation, and dynamic…