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A skyrmion crystal (SkX) has attracted much attention in condensed matter physics, since topologically nontrivial structures induce fascinating physical phenomena. The SkXs have been experimentally observed in a variety of materials, where…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-12 Ryota Yambe , Satoru Hayami

The interplay between dimensionality and topology manifests in magnetism via both exotic texture morphology and novel dynamics. A free magnetic skyrmion exhibits the skyrmion Hall effect under electric currents. Once it is confined in…

We theoretically investigate field-induced switching of magnetic topology in a nanodisk-shaped sample of noncentrosymmetric dipolar magnet in which the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction that stabilizes an antiskyrmion with $N_{\rm sk}$=+1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Tatsuki Muto , Masahito Mochizuki

We consider helical rotation of skyrmions confined in the potentials formed by nano-disks. Based on numerical and analytical calculations we propose the skyrmion echo phenomenon. The physical mechanism of the skyrmion echo formation is also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 X. -G. Wang , Guang-hua Guo , A. Dyrdał , J. Barnaś , V. K. Dugaev , S. S. P. Parkin , A. Ernst , L. Chotorlishvili

Recent advances in the physics of current-driven antiferromagnetic skyrmions have observed the absence of a Magnus force. We outline the symmetry reasons for this phenomenon, and show that this cancellation will fail in the case of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Matthew W. Daniels , Weichao Yu , Ran Cheng , Jiang Xiao , Di Xiao

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

Skyrmions in condensed matter physics appear as classical topological spin structures. This nontrivial state can be obtained solving the corresponding micromagnetic model, where the magnetization is treated as a continuous classical vector…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-28 O. M. Sotnikov , V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois , F. Mila , M. I. Katsnelson , E. A. Stepanov

The magnetoelectric effect and skyrmions are two fundamental phenomena in the field of condensed-matter physics. Here, using first-principles calculations and Monte-Carlo simulations, we propose that strong magnetoelectric coupling can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Kaiying Dou , Wenhui Du , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

When magnetic skyrmions are moved via currents, they do not strictly travel along the path of the current, instead their motion also gains a transverse component. This so-called skyrmion Hall effect can be detrimental in potential skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Jonas Spethmann , Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Roland Wiesendanger , André Kubetzka , Kirsten von Bergmann

We propose a method to generate magnetic skyrmions by focusing spin waves totally reflected by a curved film edge. Based on the principle of identical magnonic path length, we derive the edge contour that is parabolic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Xianglong Yao , Zhenyu Wang , Menghua Deng , Z. -X. Li , Zhizhi Zhang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable spin swirling particle like entities which are appealing for next generation spintronic devices. The expected low critical current density for the motion of skyrmions makes them potential…

Recent studies show superconductivity provides new perspectives on spintronics. We study a heterostructure composed of an s-wave superconductor and a cubic chiral-magnet that can stabilize a topological spin texture, a skyrmion. We propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Rina Takashima , Satoshi Fujimoto

Magnetic skyrmions emerge as promising quasi-particles for encoding information in nextgeneration spintronic devices. Their innate flexibility in shape is essential for the applications although they were often ideally treated as rigid…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-09 Zhen-Yu Tan , Ji-Pei Chen , Yu-Ke Shi , Yuan Chen , Ming-Hui Qin , Xing-Sen Gao , Jun-Ming Liu

Twisted light carries a non-zero orbital angular momentum, that can be transferred from light to electrons and particles ranging from nanometers to micrometers. Up to now, the interplay between twisted light with dipolar systems has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Lingyuan Gao , Sergei Prokhorenko , Yousra Nahas , Laurent Bellaiche

A magnetic skyrmionium can be perceived as an association of two magnetic skyrmions with opposite topological charges. In this work, we have investigated the transformation of skyrmionium into multi-skyrmionic states via domain wall (DW)…

Skyrmions are topologically protected non-collinear magnetic structures. Their stability and dynamics, arising from their topological character, have made them ideal information carriers e.g. in racetrack memories. The success of such a…

N\'eel-type magnetic skyrmions in multilayer films have attracted significant amount of attention recently for their stability at room temperature and capability of motion driven by a low-density electrical current, which can be potentially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Senfu Zhang , Junwei Zhang , Yan Wen , Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Xixiang Zhang

Magnetic skyrmions $-$ localized chiral spin structures $-$ show great promise for spintronic applications. The recent discovery of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials opened new opportunities for exploring such topological spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-30 Dongzhe Li , Soumyajyoti Haldar , Stefan Heinze

We revisit a theory of skyrmion transport in ferromagnets. On a basis of an effective U(1) gauge theory for spin-chirality fluctuations in double-exchange ferromagnets, we derive an expression for the velocity of a skyrmion core driven by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-03 Ki-Seok Kim , Shigeki Onoda

We report three-dimensional topological spin configurations including a novel form of skyrmion-antiskyrmion coupling in D2d chiral magnets. The skyrmion-antiskyrmion coupled string, consisting of skyrmions located in the near-surface layers…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-11 Jin Tang , Yaodong Wu , Jialiang Jiang , Lingyao Kong , Wei Liu , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du