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Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures that can act as reconfigurable nanoscale information carriers. In synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs), interlayer exchange coupling offers an additional control parameter beyond the…

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like topological excitations that recently generated much interest as candidates for future spintronic devices based on skyrmion small size, enhanced topological stability, and/or mutual interaction. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Thomas T. J. Mutter , Andrey O. Leonov , Katsuya Inoue

Skyrmions and antiskyrmions are topologically protected spin structures with opposite topological charge. Particularly in coexisting phases, these two types of magnetic quasi-particles may show fascinating physics and potential for…

Magnetic materials can host skyrmions, which are topologically non-trivial spin textures. In chiral magnets with cubic lattice symmetry, all previously-observed skyrmion phases require thermal fluctuations to become thermodynamically stable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-06 A. Chacon , L. Heinen , M. Halder , A. Bauer , W. Simeth , S. Mühlbauer , H. Berger , M. Garst , A. Rosch , C. Pfleiderer

Interaction of two skyrmions stabilized by the ferromagnetic exchange, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), and external magnetic field has been studied numerically on a 2D lattice of size large compared to the separation, $d$, between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Daniel Capic , D. A. Garanin , E. M. Chudnovsky

We report on the stabilization of ferromagnetic skyrmions in zero external magnetic fields, in exchange-biased systems composed of ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic (FM-AFM) bilayers. By performing atomistic spin dynamics simulations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-05 M. Pankratova , O. Eriksson , A. Bergman

Skyrmions are chiral magnetic textures that have immense potential for applications in spintronic devices. However, their formation is quite challenging and necessitates a subtle balance of the magnetic interactions at play. Here, we study…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin structure, and their existence in ferromagnetically coupled multilayers has been reported with disordered arrangement. In these multilayers, the heavy metal spacing layers provide an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-30 Yong Li , Qiyuan Feng , Sihua Li , Ke Huang , Weiliang Gan , Haibiao Zhou , Xiangjun Jin , Xiao Renshaw Wang , Fusheng Ma , Qingyou Lu , Wen Siang Lew

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin structures that naturally emerge in magnetic materials. While a vast amount of effort has gone into the study of their properties, their counterpart of opposite topological charge, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-01 Juan C. Criado , Peter D. Hatton , Sebastian Schenk , Michael Spannowsky , Luke A. Turnbull

Room-temperature stabilization of skyrmions in magnetic multilayered systems is the result of a fine balance between different magnetic interactions namely symmetric and antisymmetric exchange, dipolar, perpendicular magnetic anisotropy as…

A magnetic skyrmion is a topological magnetization structure with a nanometric size and a well-defined swirling spin distribution, which is anticipated to be an essential building block for novel skyrmion-based device applications. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions are topological objects, which have recently been observed in thin films at room temperature. Sub 100-nm sizes and spin polarised current manipulation make them candidates for high density information storage and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Laurent Ranno , Maria Alfonso Moro

Magnetic skyrmions present interesting physics due to their topological nature and hold significant promise for future information technologies. A key barrier to realizing skyrmion devices has been stabilizing these spin structures under…

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI) is attracting great interests for spintronics. An iDMI constant larger than 3 mJ/m^2 is expected to minimize the size of skyrmions and to optimize the DW dynamics. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Anni Cao , Runze Chen , Xueying Zhang , Xinran Wang , Shiyang Lu , Shishen Yan , Bert Koopmans , Weisheng Zhao

Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture stabilized by the protection due to their topology. In most cases they are induced by chiral interactions between atomic spins existing in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-21 Albert Fert , Nicolas Reyren , Vincent Cros

Ambient magnetic skyrmions stabilized in multilayer nanostructures are of immense interest due to their relevance to magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices for memory and unconventional computing applications. However, existing skyrmionic…

Magnetic skyrmions have garnered attention for their potential roles in spintronic applications, such as information carriers in computation, data storage, and nano-oscillators due to their small size, topological stability, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Rajgowrav Cheenikundil , Zhiwei Lu , Manuel Pereiro , Anna Delin , Danny Thonig

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that hold great promise as nanoscale information carriers in non-volatile memory and logic devices. While room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-induced manipulation were…

Skyrmion stabilization in novel magnetic systems with the B20 crystal structure is reported here, primarily based on theoretical results. The focus is on the effect of alloying on the 3d sublattice of the B20 structure by substitution of…

We investigate the dynamics of two skyrmions lying in distinct layers of an antiferromagnetic bilayer system, consisting of nanostripes with the shape of racetracks. The top and bottom nanostripes are separated by a height offset and they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 R. C. Silva , R. L. Silva , V. L. Carvalho-Santos , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira