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Skyrmions--topologically protected nanoscale spin textures with vortex-like configurations--hold transformative potential for ultra-dense data storage, spintronics and quantum computing. However, their practical utility is challenged by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Lei Liu , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

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 phase transitions are a test bed for exploring the physics of non-equilibrium phenomena in condensed matter, which become even more complex when topological constraints are involved. In particular, the investigation of skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Leonardo Pierobon , Christoforos Moutafis , Yu Li , Jörg F. Löffler , Michalis Charilaou

We show that high concentration of skyrmions can be achieved in magnetic films with quenched disorder. A 2D system of Heisenberg spins with feromagnetic exchange, $J$, and random magnetic anisotropy of strength $D_R \ll J$ has been studied.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

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

We demonstrate a fast numerical method of theoretical studies of skyrmion lattice or spiral order in magnetic materials with Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction. The method is based on the Fourier expansion of the magnetization combined with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-01 Eugene Balkind , Aldo Isidori , Matthias Eschrig

Skyrmion-containing devices have been proposed as a promising solution for low energy data storage. These devices include racetrack or logic structures and require skyrmions to be confined in regions with dimensions comparable to the size…

We have utilised a high spatial resolution imaging method, Differential Phase Contrast (DPC) performed in a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), for precise measurement of the magnetic induction distribution in skyrmion states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 D. McGrouther , R. J. Lamb , M. Krajnak , S. McFadzean , S. McVitie , R. L. Stamps , A. O. Leonov , A. N. Bogdanov , Y. Togawa

The interesting physics and potential memory technologies resulting from topologically protected spin textures such as skyrmions, has prompted efforts to discover new material systems that can host these kind of magnetic structures. Here we…

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale, topologically protected spin textures with exceptional potential for high density data storage and energy efficient computing. Among various skyrmion hosting systems, rare earth transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Saroj Kumar Mishra , Y. K. Takahashi , C. Malavika , Karthik V. Raman , Jyoti Ranjan Mohanty

Magnetic skyrmions in chiral magnets are nanoscale, topologically-protected magnetization swirls that are promising candidates for spintronics memory carriers. Therefore, observing and manipulating the skyrmion state on the surface level of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-06 S. L. Zhang , A. Bauer , D. M. Burn , P. Milde , E. Neuber , L. M. Eng , H. Berger , C. Pfleiderer , G. van der Laan , T. Hesjedal

Skyrmions represent topologically stable field configurations with particle-like properties. We used neutron scattering to observe the spontaneous formation of a two-dimensional lattice of skyrmion lines, a type of magnetic vortices, in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Mühlbauer , B. Binz , F. Jonietz , C. Pfleiderer , A. Rosch , A. Neubauer , R. Georgii , P. Böni

Polar skyrmions are topologically stable, swirling polarization textures with particle-like characteristics, which hold promise for next-generation, nanoscale logic and memory. While understanding of how to create ordered polar skyrmion…

Non-flat energy landscapes leading to localized pinning of skyrmions pose an inherent and unavoidable challenge for studies of fundamental 2D spin structure dynamics as well as applications. Accounting for pinning is a key requirement for…

The current development to employ magnetic skyrmions in novel spintronic device designs has led to a demand for room temperature-stable skyrmions of ever smaller size. We present extensive studies on skyrmion stability in atomistic magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Markus Hoffmann , Gideon P. Müller , Stefan Blügel

This study establishes a comprehensive framework for the three-dimensional strain control of magnetic skyrmion strings. We integrate analytical modeling, micromagnetic simulations, and \textit{in situ} Lorentz transmission electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Haijun Zhao , Tae-Hoon Kim , Lin Zhou , Liqin Ke

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

A direct three-dimensional minimization of the standard energy functional shows that in thin films of cubic helimagnets chiral skyrmions are modulated along three spatial directions. The structure of such 3D skyrmions can be thought of as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-08 F. N. Rybakov , A. B. Borisov , A. N. Bogdanov

In this paper, we study the stability of skyrmions (SKYs) caused by the geometric confinement (GC) effect observed in nano-domains in recent experiments, where SKYs appear only inside the boundary and is stable at the low magnetic field…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-09 H. Koibuchi , F. Kato , S. El Hog , G. Diguet , B. Ducharne , T. Uchimoto , H. T. Diep

Magnetic skyrmions have been receiving growing attention as potential information storage and magnetic logic devices since an increasing number of materials have been identified that support skyrmion phases. Explorations of artificial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-12 Fusheng Ma , C. Reichhardt , Weiliang Gan , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , Wen Siang Lew