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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

To realize future spintronic applications with magnetic skyrmions -- topologically nontrivial swirling spin structures -- it is essential to achieve efficient writing and deleting capabilities of these quasi-particles. Electric-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-29 Souvik Paul , Stefan Heinze

We study the current-driven skyrmion expulsion from magnetic nanostrips using micromagnetic simulations and analytic calculations. We explore the threshold current density for the skyrmion expulsion, and show that this threshold is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Myoung-Woo Yoo , Vincent Cros , Joo-Von Kim

Skyrmions are topological structures defined by a winding vector configuration that yields a quantized topological charge. In magnetic materials, skyrmions manifest as stable, mobile spin textures, positioning them at the forefront of…

A magnetic skyrmion induced on a ferromagnetic topological insulator (TI) is a real-space manifestation of the chiral spin texture in the momentum space, and can be a carrier for information processing by manipulating it in tailored…

Spintronics exploits spin-orbit coupling (SOC) to generate spin currents, spin torques, and, in the absence of inversion symmetry, Rashba, and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI). The widely used magnetic materials, based on 3d metals…

Spin eigenexcitations of skyrmions and related chiral magnetic textures have attracted considerable interest over the recent years owing to their strong potential for applications in information processing and microwave devices. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Martin Lonsky , Axel Hoffmann

Recently, there has been substantial interest in realizations of skyrmions, in particular in 2D systems due to increased stability resulting from reduced dimensionality. A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Utkan Güngördü , Rabindra Nepal , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Kirill Belashchenko , Alexey A. Kovalev

Magnetic skyrmions, which are topological particle-like excitations in ferromagnets, have attracted a lot of attention recently. Skyrmionics is an attempt to use magnetic skyrmions as information carriers in next generation spintronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

We report the current-driven dynamics of frustrated skyrmions in an antiferromagnetically exchange coupled bilayer system, where the bilayer skyrmion consists of two monolayer skyrmions with opposite skyrmion numbers $Q$. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-18 Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Zhipeng Hou , Wenhong Wang , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that hold great promise as nanoscale information carriers in non-volatile memory and logic devices. While room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-induced manipulation were…

We propose a new method to generate magnetic skyrmions through spin-wave focusing in chiral ferromagnets.A lens is constructed to focus spin waves by a curved interface between two ferromagnetic thin films with different perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Zhenyu Wang , Z. -X. Li , Ruifang Wang , Bo Liu , Hao Meng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Skyrmions are topologically protected entities in magnetic materials which have the potential to be used in spintronics for information storage and processing. However, Skyrmions in ferromagnets have some intrinsic difficulties which must…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Joseph Barker , Oleg A. Tretiakov

Selective control of individual spin qubits is needed for scalable quantum computing based on spin states. Achieving high-fidelity in both single and two-qubit gates, essential components of universal quantum computers, necessitates highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Md Fahim F Chowdhury , Mohamad Niknam , Md Mahadi Rajib , Louis S. Bouchard , Jayasimha Atulasimha

We demonstrate the controlled generation and annihilation of (anti)skyrmions with tunable chirality in magnetic heterostructures by means of micromagnetic simulations. By making use of magnetic (anti)vortices in patterned ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Sabri Koraltan , Claas Abert , Florian Bruckner , Michael Heigl , Manfred Albrecht , Dieter Suess

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected local magnetic solitons that are promising for storage, logic or general computing applications. In this work, we demonstrate that we can use a skyrmion device based on [W/CoFeB/MgO] 1 0…

The discovery of magnetic skyrmion bubbles in centrosymmetric magnets has been receiving increasing interest from the research community, due to the fascinating physics of topological spin textures and its possible applications to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Zhipeng Hou , Qiang Zhang , Guizhou Xu , Senfu Zhang , Chen Gong , Bei Ding , Hang Li , Feng Xu , Yuan Yao , Enke Liu , Guangheng Wu , Xi-xiang Zhang , Wenhong Wang

Domain-wall skyrmions (DWSKs) are topological spin textures confined within domain walls that have recently attracted significant attention due to their potential applications in racetrack memory technologies. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Haoyang Nie , Zhixiong Li , Xiansi Wang , Zhenyu Wang

When two magnetic skyrmions - whirl-like, topologically protected quasiparticles - form a bound pair, a biskyrmion state with a topological charge of $N_\mathrm{Sk}=\pm 2$ is constituted. Recently, especially the case of two partially…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-03 Börge Göbel , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

Skyrmions and antiskyrmions are nanoscale swirling textures of magnetic moments formed by chiral interactions between atomic spins in magnetic non-centrosymmetric materials and multilayer films with broken inversion symmetry. These…