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We study the dynamics of skyrmions under spin-transfer torque in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya materials with easy-axis anisotropy. In particular, we study the motion of a topological skyrmion with skyrmion number $Q=1$ and a non-topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

Optical Skyrmions, as an emergent cutting-edge topic in optics and photonics, extend the concept of non-singular topological defects to topological photonics, providing extra degrees of freedom for light-matter interaction manipulations,…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-26 Lei Shi , Zhiyuan Che , Yuri Kivshar

Optical skyrmions have recently been constructed by tailoring electric or spin field distributions through the interference of multiple surface plasmon polaritons, offering promising features for advanced information processing, transport…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-11 Zi-Lan Deng , Tan Shi , Alex Krasnok , Xiangping Li , Andrea Alù

Skyrmions are important in topological quantum field theory for being soliton solutions of a nonlinear sigma model and in information technology for their attractive applications. Skyrmions are believed to be circular and stripy spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 X. R. Wang , X. C. Hu , H. T. Wu

Skyrmions, merons, bimerons, and skyrmionic hopfions are quasiparticles which have stable topological textures. They have been observed across multiple physical domains including nucleons, water waves, magnetic materials, electromagnetic…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-18 Srinivasa Rao Allam , Yuto Yoneda , Takashige Omatsu

In recent time, the optical-analogous skyrmions, topological quasiparticles with sophisticated vectorial structures, have received an increasing amount of interest. Here we propose theortically and experimentally a generalized family of…

Optical skyrmions are members of the emerging topological branch of solid-state physics and photonics, allowing for control over topological light textures through light-matter interactions. However, in nanophotonics their practical…

Topological quasiparticles such as skyrmions and merons have recently attracted enormous attentions in the form of diverse optical degrees of freedom. However, these structures have not been explored in the fundamental momentum vectors of…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-28 Peiyang Chen , Kai Xiang Lee , Tim Colin Meiler , Yijie Shen

Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates as information carriers in logic or storage devices thanks to their robustness, guaranteed by the topological protection, and their nanometric size. Currently, little is known about the influence…

Magnetic skyrmions, topological solitons characterized by a two-dimensional swirling spin texture, have recently attracted attention as stable particle-like objects. In a three-dimensional system, a skyrmion can extend in the third…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-28 S. Seki , M. Garst , J. Waizner , R. Takagi , Y. Okamura , K. Kondou , F. Kagawa , Y. Otani , Y. Tokura

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures that are promising candidates for low-power spintronic memory and logic devices. Realizing skyrmion-based devices requires an understanding of how structural disorder affects…

Optical skyrmions have been widely explored in recent years. Among them, Stokes skyrmions require sophisticated wave engineering or photonic devices for their generation. We show that Stokes skyrmions can emerge spontaneously in…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-06 Marcos G. Barriopedro , Eduardo Oliva , Miguel A. Porras

Liquid crystal skyrmions are topologically protected spatially localized distortions of the director field which are fascinating from both fundamental mathematics and applied physics points of view. Skyrmions are realized in experimental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-26 Tomás Alvim , Margarida M. Telo da Gama , Mykola Tasinkevych

Skyrmions are highly stable chiral magnetic spin textures with non-trivial topology. They can act as quasi-particles that can be generated, manipulated and annihilated, and hold promise for future memory and logic devices. As of now,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 M. G. van der Schans , W. P. M. de Kleijne , M. A. Brozius , B. Koopmans

The topologically protected configuration embedded in skyrmions has prompted some investigations into their fundamental properties and versatile applications, sparking interest and guiding ongoing development. The topological protection…

Skyrmions are twirling magnetic textures whose non-trivial topology leads to particle-like properties promising for information technology applications. Perhaps the most important aspect of interacting particles is their ability to form…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-17 Ping Huang , Marco Cantoni , Arnaud Magrez , Fabrizio Carbone , Henrik M. Rønnow

The recently observed plasmonic skyrmions, as electromagnetic counterparts of topologically stable quasiparticles, hold significant promise as novel carriers for robust information transfer and manipulation of nontrivial light-matter…

Skyrmions are stable topological textures that have garnered substantial attention within the ferroelectric community for their exotic functional properties. While previous studies have questioned the feasibility of [001]$_{\text{pc}}$…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-01 Fernando Gómez-Ortiz , Louis Bastogne , Sriram Anand , Miao Yu , Xu He , Philippe Ghosez

We propose a new mechanism to produce a meron-antimeron pair in a two dimensional antiferromagnet with an ultrafast laser pulse via thermal Schwinger mechanism. Unlike ultrafast skyrmion nucleation, this process conserves total topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Sumit Ghosh , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

Controlled movement of nano-scale stable magnetic objects has been proposed as the foundation for a new generation of magnetic storage devices. Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like spin textures stabilized by their topology are particularly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-27 Yongkang Luo , Shizeng Lin , M. Leroux , N. Wakeham , D. M. Fobes , E. D. Bauer , J. B. Betts , J. D. Thompson , A. Migliori , M. Janoschek , Boris Maiorov