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Magnetic skyrmions are intriguing topological spin textures that have attracted great attention due to their potential for future spintronic devices. Skyrmions have so far been explored in different magnetic materials, such as ferromagnets,…

We study the spin-transfer drag mediated by the Brownian motion of skyrmions. The essential idea is illustrated in a two-terminal geometry, in which a thin film of a magnetic insulator is placed in between two metallic reservoirs. An…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Hector Ochoa , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

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

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like textures in the magnetization, characterized by a topological winding number. Nanometer-scale skyrmions have been observed at room temperature in magnetic multilayer structures. The combination of small…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-14 Jan Müller

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

Skyrmions are topologically protected non-collinear magnetic structures. Their stability and dynamics, arising from their topological character, have made them ideal information carriers e.g. in racetrack memories. The success of such a…

Frustrated topological spin textures have unique properties that may enable novel spintronic applications, such as helicity-based information storage and computing. Here, we report the statics and current-induced dynamics of two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Hung T. Diep , Guoping Zhao , Jinbo Yang , Yan Zhou , Motohiko Ezawa , Xiaoxi Liu

The creation and manipulation of magnetic skyrmions in magnetic bilayer heterostructures via spin-orbit torque have been intensively studied in spintronics because of their potential application as information carriers in next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Yuto Uwabo , Masahito Mochizuki

Skyrmions can be driven by spin-orbit torques as a result of the spin Hall effect. Here we model an additional contribution in ultra-thin multilayers, arising from the spin accumulation at heavy metal / ferromagnetic interfaces and observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 C. R. MacKinnon , S. Lepadatu , T. Mercer , P. Bissell

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale windings of the spin configuration that hold great promise for technology due to their topology-related properties and extremely reduced sizes. After the recent observation at room temperature of sub-100 nm…

Multi-functional manipulation of magnetic topological textures such as skyrmions and bimerons in energy-efficient ways is of great importance for spintronic applications, but still being a big challenge. Here, by first-principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-01 Zhong Shen , Shuai Dong , Xiaoyan Yao

We show that ac driven skyrmion lattices in a weak pinning channel confined by regions of strong pinning exhibit edge transport carried by skipping orbits while skyrmions in the bulk of the channel undergo localized orbits with no net…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin swirling vertices, which are promising in device applications due to their particle-like nature and excellent controlability. Magnetic skyrmions have been extensively studied in a variety…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-10 Fawei Zheng

Defects, i.e. inhomogeneities of the underlying lattice, are ubiquitous in magnetic materials and can have a crucial impact on their applicability in spintronic devices. For magnetic skyrmions, localized and topologically non-trivial spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-26 Philipp Rieger , Markus Weißenhofer , Ulrich Nowak

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

We study a graphene Hall probe located on top of a magnetic surface as a detector of skyrmions, using as working principle the anomalous Hall effect produced by the exchange interaction of the graphene electrons with the non-coplanar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Francesca Finocchiaro , Jose Luis Lado , Joaquin Fernandez-Rossier

Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions have interesting static and transport properties that make them candidates for future spintronic devices. Control and manipulation of the size and behavior of skyrmions is thus of crucial importance. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Steven S. -L. Zhang , C. Phatak , A. K. Petford-Long , O. G. Heinonen

Magnetic skyrmions are of considerable interest for low-power memory and logic devices because of high speed at low current and high stability due to topological protection. We propose a skyrmion field-effect transistor based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Ik-Sun Hong , Kyung-Jin Lee

The nontrivial topological spin textures, such as magnetic skyrmions, are of great interest due to their potential use as information carriers in spintronic memory and logic. Here, we theoretically predict an asymmetric antibimeron (AAB) --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Pavel A. Vorobyev , Daichi Kurebayashi , Oleg A. Tretiakov

We show a topological spin texture called "bimeronium" in magnets with in-plane magnetization. It is a topological counterpart of skyrmionium in perpendicularly magnetized magnets and can be seen as a combination of two bimerons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Motohiko Ezawa , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Hung T. Diep , Guoping Zhao , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou