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Skyrmions are spin-swirling textures hosting wonderful properties with potential implications in information technology. Such magnetic particles carry a magnetization, whose amplitude is crucial to establish them as robust magnetic bits,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Imara Lima Fernandes , Samir Lounis

Recently proposed spintronic devices use magnetic skyrmions as bits of information. The reliable detection of those chiral magnetic objects is an indispensable requirement. Yet, the high mobility of magnetic skyrmions leads to their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Tim Matthies , Alexander F. Schäffer , Thore Posske , Roland Wiesendanger , Elena Y. Vedmedenko

Topologically protected spin textures, such as magnetic skyrmions, have the potential for dense data storage as well as energy-efficient computing due to their small size and a low driving current. The evaluation of the writing and reading…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-18 Aijaz H. Lone , Xuecui Zou , Debasis Das , Xuanyao Fong , Gianluca Setti , Hossein Fariborzi

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

Skyrmions are particle-like topological excitations, studied in various condensed matter systems and models of high-energy physics (HEP). They occur as stable spin textures in certain planar magnetic materials and as configurations in…

Increasing amounts of information force the continuous improvement of information storage and processing technologies, further device miniaturization, and their efficiency increase. Magnetic skyrmions, topological quasiparticles, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Mateusz Zelent , Mathieu Moalic , Michal Mruczkiewicz , Xiaoguang Li , Yan Zhou , Maciej Krawczyk

Recent developments have led to an explosion of activity on skyrmions in three-dimensional (3D) chiral magnets. Experiments have directly probed these topological spin textures, revealed their nontrivial properties, and led to suggestions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-11 Sumilan Banerjee , James Rowland , Onur Erten , Mohit Randeria

We examine a skyrmionium driven over a periodic anisotropy pattern, which consists of disorder free regions and disordered regions. For small defect densities, the skyrmionium flows for an extended range of currents, and there is a critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 J. C. Bellizotti Souza , N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures promising for future high-density and nonvolatile memory. It is crucial to understand the current-driven skyrmion dynamics in the presence of deformation, of which an analytical model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Zehan Chen , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Qiming Shao

Symmetry breaking together with strong spin-orbit interaction give rise to many exciting phenomena within condensed matter physics. A recent example is the existence of chiral spin textures, which are observed in magnetic systems lacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Wanjun Jiang , Gong Chen , Kai Liu , Jiadong Zang , Suzanne G. E. te Velthuis , Axel Hoffmann

A spin texture called skyrmion has been recently observed in certain chiral magnets without inversion symmetry. The observed skyrmions are extended objects with typical linear sizes of 10 nm to 100 nm that contain $10^3$ to $10^5$ spins and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-24 Shi-Zeng Lin , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

Topological solitons, such as skyrmions, arise in field theories of systems ranging from Bose-Einstein condensates to optics, particle physics, and cosmology, but they are rarely accessible experimentally. Chiral nematic liquid crystals…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Hayley R. O. Sohn , Changda D. Liu , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Topological protection precludes a continuous deformation between topologically inequivalent configurations in a continuum. Motivated by this concept, magnetic skyrmions, topologically nontrivial spin textures, are expected to exhibit the…

Topological Skyrmions as intricate spin textures were observed experimentally in helimagnets on 2d plane. Theoretical foundation of such solitonic states to appear in pure ferromagnetic model, as exact solutions expressed through any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Anjan Kundu

Skyrmions, topologically stable magnetic solitons characterized by whirling magnetization in nanoscale magnetic elements, show promise information carriers in spintronics and spin-based quantum computing due to their unique properties:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Suyeong Jeong , Dae-Han Jung , Hee-Sung Han , Ganghwi Kim , Myeonghwan Kang , Mi-Young Im , Younggun Park , Ki-Suk Lee

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale topological spin structures offering great promise for next-generation information storage technologies. The recent discovery of sub-100 nm room temperature (RT) skyrmions in several multilayer films has…

Integrating topologically stabilized magnetic textures such as skyrmions as nanoscale information carriers into future technologies requires the reliable control by electric currents. Here, we uncover that the relevant skyrmion Hall effect,…

The ground states of square lattice two-dimensional antiferromagnets with anisotropy in an external magnetic field are determined using Monte Carlo simulations and compared to theoretical analysis. We find a new phase in between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Rick Keesman , Mark Raaijmakers , A. E. Baerends , G. T. Barkema , R. A. Duine

Exotic spin textures viz. chiral domain wall, vortices, skyrmion, skyrmionium, etc. have recently emerged as active field of research because of their potential applications in high density data storage technology and logic gate computing.…

The Skyrmion number of paraxial optical Skyrmions can be defined solely via their polarization singularities and associated winding numbers, using a mathematical derivation that exploits Stokes's theorem. It is demonstrated that this…