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The chiral magnet Cu$_{2}$OSeO$_{3}$ hosts a skyrmion lattice, that may be equivalently described as a superposition of plane waves or lattice of particle-like topological objects. A thermal gradient may break up the skyrmion lattice and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 S. Pöllath , J. Wild , L. Heinen , T. N. G. Meier , M. Kronseder , L. Tutsch , A. Bauer , H. Berger , C. Pfleiderer , J. Zweck , A. Rosch , C. H. Back

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-scale magnetic states that could be used in various spintronics devices. A central issue is the mechanism and rate of various possible annihilation processes and the lifetime of metastable skyrmions. While most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Sergei M. Vlasov , Pavel F. Bessarab , Igor S. Lobanov , Mariia N. Potkina , Valery M. Uzdin , Hannes Jónsson

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…

A new energy-based stochastic extension of the Schrodinger equation for which the wave function collapses after the passage of a finite amount of time is proposed. An exact closed-form solution to the dynamical equation, valid for all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic spin structures exhibiting particle-like behaviour. They are of strong interest from a fundamental viewpoint and for application, where they have potential to act as information carriers in future…

Skyrmion gases and lattices in helimagnets are studied, and the size of a Skyrmion in various phases is estimated. For isolated Skyrmions, the long distance tail is related to the magnetization correlation functions and exhibits power-law…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-30 Kwan-yuet Ho , Theodore R. Kirkpatrick , Dietrich Belitz

We investigate the phase ordering kinetics of skyrmion lattice (SkL) in a metallic magnet. The SkL can be viewed as a superposition of magnetic stripes whose periods are determined by the quasi-nesting wave vectors of the underlying Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-26 Kotaro Shimizu , Gia-Wei Chern

We study the dynamics of the critical collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field. Approximate analytic expressions for the metric functions and matter field in the large-radius region are obtained. In the central region, owing to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-13 Jun-Qi Guo , Yu Hu , Pan-Pan Wang , Cheng-Gang Shao

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

The atomic-scale spin structure of individual isolated skyrmions in an ultrathin film is investigated in real space by spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy. Their axial symmetry as well as their unique rotational sense is revealed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Niklas Romming , André Kubetzka , Christian Hanneken , Kirsten von Bergmann , Roland Wiesendanger

High precision skyrmion pinning by an intentionally created magnetic structure is important in skyrmion manipulation. Here, we consider skyrmion pinning by various types of disks. Among other findings, we clarify that, in terms of pinning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 X. Gong , K. Y. Jing , J. Lu , X. R. Wang

We investigate the dependence of the N\'eel skyrmion size and stability on perpendicular magnetic field in ultrathin circular magnetic dots with out-of-plane anisotropy and interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange interaction. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 F. Tejo , A. Riveros , J. Escrig , K. Y. Guslienko , O. Chubykalo-Fesenko

We use the continuum micromagnetic framework to derive the formulas for compact skyrmion lifetime due to thermal noise in ultrathin ferromagnetic films with relatively weak interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. In the absence of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-02 Anne Bernand-Mantel , Cyrill B. Muratov , Valeriy V. Slastikov

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

The understanding of the dynamical properties of skyrmion is a fundamental aspect for the realization of a competitive skyrmion based technology beyond CMOS. Most of the theoretical approaches are based on the approximation of a rigid…

Magnetic Skyrmions belong to the most interesting spin structures for the development of future information technology as they have been predicted to be topologically protected. To quantify their stability, we use an innovative multiscale…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-19 Andrea De Lucia , Kai Litzius , Benjamin Krüger , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Mathias Kläui

When a magnetic skyrmion is modeled as a point particle, its dynamics depends on the precise definition of the skyrmion center. The guiding-center position, defined as the first moment of the skyrmion density, exhibits Thiele's massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Xiaofan Wu , Oleg Tchernyshyov

Ensembles of magnetic skyrmions in confined geometries are shown to exhibit thermally driven motion on two different time scales. The intrinsic fluctuating dynamics ($t\sim 1~$ps) is governed by short-range symmetric and antisymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-13 Alexander F. Schäffer , Levente Rózsa , Jamal Berakdar , Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Roland Wiesendanger

Magnetic skyrmions widely exist in a diverse range of magnetic systems, including chiral magnets with a non-centrosymmetric structure characterized by Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction~(DMI). In this study, we propose a generalized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Panchi Li , Shuting Gu , Jin Lan , Jingrun Chen , Weiqing Ren , Rui Du

Deformations of skyrmions arising from the presence of more than one magnetic sublattice lead to their massive dynamics in ferrimagnets as compared to the massless dynamics in 2D ferromagnets. This results in the gyroscopic motion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Dmitry A. Garanin , Eugene M. Chudnovsky