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Topological solitons have been studied for decades in classical field theories, and have started recently to impact condensed matter physics. Among those solitons, magnetic skyrmions are two-dimensional particle-like objects with a…

Hopfions are three-dimensional (3D) topological textures characterized by the integer Hopf invariant $Q_H$. Here, we present the realization of a zero--field, stable hopfion spin texture in a magnetic system consisting of a chiral magnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yizhou Liu , Roger Lake , Jiadong Zang

A magnetic Hopfion is a three-dimensional topological soliton that consists of a closed loop of a twisted magnetic Skyrmion string. The results of numerical simulations are presented that demonstrate the existence of a stable Hopfion in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Paul Sutcliffe

Resonant spin dynamics of topological spin textures are correlated with their topological nature, which can be employed to understand this nature. In this study, we present resonant spin dynamics of three-dimensional topological spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Zulfidin Khodzhaev , Emrah Turgut

Magnetic hopfions in chiral magnets are topological solitons, localized in three dimensions. But is their localization strong? To address this question we derive an asymptotic expansion for the isolated hopfion's spatial profile. It becomes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Konstantin L. Metlov , Maksim M. Gordei

Topological particle-like excitations such as skyrmions and hopfions offer rich opportunities for spintronic and photonic applications. While skyrmions have been extensively studied, the stabilization mechanisms and phase behavior of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Andrey O. Leonov , Takayuki Shigenaga

Topological spin textures exhibit a hierarchical nature. For instance, magnetic skyrmions, which possess a particle-like nature, can aggregate to form superstructures such as skyrmion strings and skyrmion lattices. Magnetic hopfions are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-04 Shoya Kasai , Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Topological spin configurations, such as soliton-like spin texture and Dirac electron assemblies, have emerged in recent years in both fundamental science and technological applications. Achieving stable topological spin textures at…

Cubic chiral magnets exhibit a remarkable diversity of two-dimensional topological magnetic textures, including skyrmions. However, the experimental confirmation of topological states localized in all three spatial dimensions remains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Vladyslav M. Kuchkin , Nikolai S. Kiselev , Filipp N. Rybakov , Igor S. Lobanov , Stefan Blügel , Valery M. Uzdin

Magnetic hopfions are topologically protected three-dimensional solitons that are constituted by a tube which exhibits a topologically nontrivial spin texture in the cross-section profile and is closed to a torus. Here we show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Börge Göbel , Collins Ashu Akosa , Gen Tatara , Ingrid Mertig

Topological magnetic textures have attracted considerable interest since they exhibit new properties and might be useful in information technology. Magnetic hopfions are three-dimensional (3D) spatial variations in the magnetization with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 X. S. Wang , A. Qaiumzadeh , A. Brataas

Hopfions are an intriguing class of string-like solitons, named according to a classical topological concept classifying three-dimensional direction fields. The search of hopfions in real physical systems is going on for nearly half a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-05 F. N. Rybakov , N. S. Kiselev , A. B. Borisov , L. Döring , C. Melcher , S. Blügel

We present micromagnetic simulations on resonant spin wave modes of magnetic Hopfions up to 15 GHz driven by external magnetic fields. A sharp transition is found around 32 mT coinciding with a transition from Hopfions to magnetic torons.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-05 D. Raftrey , P. Fischer

Magnetic hopfion is three-dimensional (3D) topological soliton with novel spin structure that would enable exotic dynamics. Here we study the current driven 3D dynamics of a magnetic hopfion with unit Hopf index in a frustrated magnet.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Yizhou Liu , Wentao Hou , Xiufeng Han , Jiadong Zang

Topological magnetic structures, such as Hopfions, are central to three-dimensional magnetism, but their characterization in complex geometries remains challenging. We introduce a robust finite-element method for calculating the Hopf index…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Louis Gallard , Riccardo Hertel

Three-dimensional topological solitons attract a great deal of interest in fields ranging from particle physics to cosmology but remain experimentally elusive in solid-state magnets. Here we numerically predict magnetic heliknotons, an…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-28 Robert Voinescu , Jung-Shen B. Tai , Ivan I. Smalyukh

This work provides a concept for three-dimensional magnetic solitons based on mapping the homotopy path between various two-dimensional solutions onto the third spatial axis. The representative examples of statically stable configurations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-22 Vladyslav M. Kuchkin , Nikolai S. Kiselev

Two-dimensional topological solitons, commonly called Skyrmions, are extensively studied in solid-state magnetic nanostructures and promise many spintronics applications. However, three-dimensional topological solitons dubbed hopfions have…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-02 Jung-Shen B. Tai , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Magnetic hopfions are non-collinear spin textures that are characterized by an integer topological invariant, called Hopf index. The three-dimensional magnetic solitons can be thought of as a tube with a twisted magnetization that has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Börge Göbel , Samir Lounis

Thanks to the recent progress in bulk full three-dimensional nanoscale magnetization distribution imaging, there is a growing interest to three-dimensional (3D) magnetization textures, promising new high information density spintronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Konstantin L. Metlov , Andrei B. Bogatyrëv
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