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The development of energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware using spintronic devices based on antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmion motion on nanotracks has gained considerable interest. Owing to its properties such as robustness against external…

Thin-film sub-5 nm magnetic skyrmions constitute an ultimate scaling alternative for future digital data storage. Skyrmions are robust non-collinear spin-textures that can be moved and manipulated by small electrical currents. We show here…

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Electrons moving through a noncoplanar magnetic texture acquire a Berry phase, which can be described as an effective magnetic field. This effect is known as the topological Hall effect and has been observed in topological spin textures.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Tan Dao , Sergey S. Pershoguba , Jiadong Zang

Magnetic skyrmions, due to their topological stability and high mobility, are strong candidates for information carriers in spintronic devices. To advance their practical applications, a detailed understanding of their nucleation and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Tamali Mukherjee , V Satya Narayana Murthy , Banasree Sadhukhan

Magnetic skyrmions are nano-scale magnetic whirls that can be driven by currents via spin torques. They are promising candidates for spintronic devices such as the racetrack memory, where a motion along the uniform current is typically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ismael Ribeiro de Assis , Ingrid Mertig , Börge Göbel

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stabilized quasi-particles and are promising candidates for energy-efficient applications, such as storage but also logic and sensing. Here we present a new concept for a multi-turn sensor-counter device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Kilian Leutner , Thomas Brian Winkler , Johannes Güttinger , Hans Fangohr , Mathias Kläui

Magnetic skyrmions are swirling magnetic textures that can be efficiently driven with spin-orbit torques with a deflected trajectory. However, pinning slows skyrmions down and alters their trajectory, which prevents a quantitative…

The thermal Hall effect has emerged as a fundamental tool for probing exotic quasiparticles and topological order, particularly in magnetic insulators where electronic conduction is suppressed. Much like skyrmions, which are characterized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ferenc Márkus , Katalin Gambár

A theoretical study of the current-driven dynamics of magnetic skyrmions in disordered perpendicularly-magnetized ultrathin films is presented. The disorder is simulated as a granular structure in which the local anisotropy varies randomly…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-22 Joo-Von Kim , Myoung-Woo Yoo

Magnetic skyrmion, vortex-like swirling topologically stable spin configurations, is appealing as information carrier for future nanoelectronics, owing to the stability, small size and extremely low driving current density. One of the most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Wang Kang , Yangqi Huang , Chentian Zheng , Weifeng Lv , Na Lei , Youguang Zhang , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Weisheng Zhao

In this paper the thermal stability of skyrmion bubbles and the critical currents to move them over pinning sites is investigated. For the used pinning geometries and the used parameters, the unexpected behavior is reported that the energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-26 Dieter Suess , Christoph Vogler , Florian Bruckner , F. Slanovc , Claas Abert

We report the observation of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions in Pt/Co/Os/Pt thin-film heterostructures and their response to electric currents. The magnetic properties are extremely sensitive to inserting thin Os layers between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 R. Tolley , S. A. Montoya , E. E. Fullerton

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that appear in magnets with broken spatial inversion symmetry via competition between the (anti)ferromagnetic exchange interactions and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Yuto Ohki , Masahito Mochizuki

Due to the large anomalous Hall effect, magnetic Weyl semimetals can support nonreciprocal surface plasmon polariton modes in the absence of an external magnetic field. This implies that magnetic Weyl semimetals can find novel application…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-23 Gaomin Tang , Jun Chen , Lei Zhang

Magnetic skyrmions are fascinating topological particle-like textures promoted by a trade-off among interfacial properties (perpendicular anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI)) and dipolar interactions. Depending on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 R. Tomasello , Z. Wang , E. Raimondo , S. Je , M. Im , M. Carpentieri , W. Jiang , G. Finocchio

Current-driven magnetic skyrmions show promise as carriers of information bits in racetrack magnetic memory applications. Specifically, the utilization of skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) systems is highly attractive due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Dimitris Kechrakos , Mario Carpentieri , Anna Giordano , Riccardo Tomasello , Giovanni Finocchio

Magnetic skyrmions are textures behaving as quasiparticles which are topologically different from other states. Their discovery in systems with broken inversion symmetry sparked the search for materials containing such magnetic phase at…

We numerically study the interacting quantum Hall skyrmion system based on the Chern-Simons action. By noticing that the action is invariant under global spin rotations in the spin space with respect to the magnetic field direction, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Moon , K. Mullen

Extensive Kerr microscopy studies reveal a strongly temperature dependent domain wall dynamics in Hall-bars made from compressively strained GaMnAs. Depending on the temperature magnetic charging of domain walls is observed and nucleation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Honolka , L. Herrera Diez , R. K. Kremer , K. Kern , E. Placidi , F. Arciprete

We theoretically propose that an electric voltage can be generated by thermal gradient with a rotating skyrmion crystal confined in a magnetic disk. We find that the rotation of skyrmion crystal induced by diffusive thermal magnon currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Junnosuke Matsuki , Masahito Mochizuki