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The melting and magnetic disordering of the skyrmion lattice in the quantum Hall system at filling factor $\nu\approx 1$ are studied. A Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless renormalization group theory is employed to describe the coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Carsten Timm , S. M. Girvin , H. A. Fertig

We study inter-skyrmion interactions and stable spin configurations in a 2D chiral magnet with in-plane anisotropies of a tilted magnetic field and the magneto-crystalline anisotropy on a (011) thin film. We find that in both cases a small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Mai Kameda , Rio Koyama , Takuro Nakajima , Yuki Kawaguchi

I revisit the well-known phase transition between the hexagonal skyrmion lattice and the homogeneous state within the phenomenological Dzyaloshinskii theory for chiral magnets which includes only the exchange, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Andrey O. Leonov

Magnetic skyrmions are localized, topologically protected spin-structures that have been proposed for storing or processing information due to their intriguing dynamical and transport properties. Important in terms of applications is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-07 B. Dupé , G. Bihlmayer , S. Blügel , S. Heinze

Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates for information and storage technologies. In the last years, magnetic multilayer systems have been tuned to enable room-temperature skyrmions, stable even in the absence of external magnetic…

Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like swirling spin structures with quantized topological number, observed in chiral magnets, are appealing for potential applications in spintronics because it is possible to control their motion with ultralow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Junichi Iwasaki , Masahito Mochizuki , Naoto Nagaosa

Skyrmions are topological magnetic textures that can arise in non-centrosymmetric ferromagnetic materials. In most systems experimentally investigated to date, skyrmions emerge as classical objects. However, the discovery of skyrmions with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-07 Andreas Haller , Solofo Groenendijk , Alireza Habibi , Andreas Michels , Thomas L. Schmidt

Nanoscale chiral skyrmions in noncentrosymmetric helimagnets are promising binary state variables in high-density, low-energy nonvolatile memory. Skyrmions are ubiquitous as an ordered, single-domain lattice phase, which makes it difficult…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 S. L. Zhang , A. Bauer , H. Berger , C. Pfleiderer , G. van der Laan , T. Hesjedal

Research on magnetic systems with broken inversion symmetry has been stimulated by the experimental proof of particle-like configurations known as skyrmions, whose non-trivial topological properties make them ideal candidates for spintronic…

The late-stage ordering of interacting magnetic skyrmions is studied numerically through extensive Langevin molecular dynamics simulations. Defining skyrmion displacements that change the connectivity of cells obtained in a Voronoi…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-27 James Stidham , Michel Pleimling

Emergent phenomena and functions arising from topological electron-spin textures in real space or momentum space are attracting growing interest for new concept of states of matter as well as for possible applications to spintronics. One…

A key issue for skyrmion dynamics and devices are pinning effects present in real systems. While posing a challenge for the realization of conventional skyrmionics devices, exploiting pinning effects can enable non-conventional computing…

In a broad range of applied magnetic fields and material parameters isolated magnetic skyrmions condense into skyrmion lattices. While the geometry of isolated skyrmions and their lattice counterparts strongly depend on field and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 A. Siemens , Y. Zhang , J. Hagemeister , E. Y. Vedmedenko , R. Wiesendanger

Skyrmions are emerging topological spin structures that are potentially revolutionary for future data storage and spintronics applications. The existence and stability of skyrmions in magnetic materials is usually associated to the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 R. L. Novak , F. Garcia , E. R. P. Novais , J. P. Sinnecker , A. P. Guimarães

In bulk helimagnets, the presence of magnetic skyrmion lattices is always accompanied by a periodic stress field due to the intrinsic magnetoelastic coupling. The release of this nontrivial stress field at the surface causes a periodic…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-13 Xuejin Wan , Yangfan Hu , Biao Wang

Magnetic skyrmions are magnetic quasi-particles with enhanced stability and different manipulation mechanisms using external fields and currents making them promising candidates for future applications for instance in neuromorphic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-30 Thomas Brian Winkler , Jan Rothörl , Maarten A. Brems , Hans Fangohr , Mathias Kläui

The recent discovery of tunable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in layered magnetic materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy makes them promising candidates for stabilization and manipulation of skyrmions at elevated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-17 Rick Keesman , A. O. Leonov , P. van Dieten , Stefan Buhrandt , G. T. Barkema , Lars Fritz , R. A. Duine

The development and characterization of three-dimensional (3D) topological magnetic textures has become an important topic in modern magnetism both for fundamental and technological perspectives. Among the novel 3D spin textures, skyrmionic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 M. Grelier , R. Battistelli , H. Popescu , F. Godel , A. Vecchiola , S. Collin , C. Léveillé , K. Bouzehouane , F. Büttner , V. Cros , N. Jaouen , N. Reyren

Magnetic ordering in two-dimensional (2D) materials has recently emerged as a promising platform for data storage, computing, and sensing. To advance these developments, it is vital to gain a detailed understanding of how the magnetic order…

The nature of the melting transition in two-dimensional systems of particles has attracted considerable research attention since the development of Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young (KTHNY) theory. The hexatic phase proposed by this…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-13 Daniel Schick , Tim Matthies , Thomas Mutschler , Levente Rózsa , Ulrich Nowak