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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

Controlling the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE) is pivotal for developing topological spintronics but typically relies on magnetic field reversal. Here, we demonstrate a general strategy for the purely electrical switching of the SkHE in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-19 Wenhui Du , Kaiying Dou , Ying Dai , Zeyan Wang , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya materials with easy-axis anisotropy. An important link between topology and dynamics is established through the construction of unambiguous conservation laws obtained earlier in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

Altermagnets are rapidly emerging as a highly promising platform for spintronics, yet dynamically controlling their spin responses remains a fundamental challenge. In this work, we demonstrate that introducing periodic optical driving and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Kai Chen , Jie Zhu

We study the stabilization and electrical manipulation of skyrmions in magnetic ultrathin films in the absence of an applied magnetic field. We show that this requires an increased magnetic anisotropy, controlled by the sample thickness, as…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-06 Sougata Mallick , Sujit Panigrahy , Gajanan Pradhan , Stanislas Rohart

We examine the current-induced dynamics of a skyrmion that is subject to both structural and bulk inversion asymmetry. There arises a hybrid type of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) which is in the form of a mixture of interfacial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Kyoung-Woong Moon , Nico Kerber , Jonas Nothhelfer , Karin Everschor-Sitte

We present a theoretical study on nucleation and propagation of antiferromagnetic skyrmionium induced by spin current injection. A skyrmionium, also known as 2{\pi} skyrmion, is a vortex-like magnetic structure characterized by a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-05 S. A. Obadero , Y. Yamane , C. A. Akosa , G. Tatara

Antiferromagnets are promising materials for future spintronic applications due to their unique properties including zero stray fields, robustness versus external magnetic fields and ultrafast dynamics, which have attracted extensive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Xue Liang , Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Xiaoxi Liu , Lei Qiu , Guoping Zhao , Yan Zhou

We examine the motion of an individual skyrmion driven through an assembly of other skyrmions by a constant or increasing force in the absence of quenched disorder. The skyrmion behavior is determined by the ratio of the damping and Magnus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Magnetic skyrmions are compact chiral spin textures that exhibit a rich variety of topological phenomena and hold potential for developing high-density memory devices and novel computing schemes driven by spin currents. Here, we demonstrate…

We examine skyrmions interacting with a square array of obstacles under ac drives applied in one or two directions. For a single direction of ac driving, we find that the Magnus force in conjunction with the obstacle interactions can create…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 N. P. Vizarim , C. J. O. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas , C. Reichhardt

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

It is widely believed that the skyrmion Hall effect is absent in antiferromagnets because of the vanishing topological charge. However, the Aharonov-Casher theory indicates the possibility of topological effects for neutral particles. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 Zhejunyu Jin , Zhaozhuo Zeng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

We show that ac driven skyrmion lattices in a weak pinning channel confined by regions of strong pinning exhibit edge transport carried by skipping orbits while skyrmions in the bulk of the channel undergo localized orbits with no net…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We study the spectral characteristics of spin current nano-oscillators based on the Pt/[Co/Ni] magnetic multilayer with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. By varying the applied magnetic field and current, both localized and propagating…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-02 Ronghua Liu , WengLee Lim , Sergei Urazhdin

We explore magnetic-field-driven chaos in magnetic skyrmions. Oscillating magnetic fields induce nonlinear dynamics in skyrmions, arising from the coupling of the secondary gyrotropic mode with a non-uniform, breathing-like mode. Through…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-11 Gyuyoung Park , Sang-Koog Kim

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like topological excitations recently discovered in chiral magnets. Their small size, topological protection and the ease with which they can be manipulated by electric currents generated much interest in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 A. O. Leonov , M. Mostovoy

Antiskyrmions are unstable in ferromagnetic systems with isotropic bulk or interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We develop a continuum model for the shrinking dynamics of antiskyrmions in bulk DMI systems, using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Frederik Austrup , Wolfgang Häusler , Michael Lau , Michael Thorwart

Using micromagnetic simulations we demonstrate core reversal of a fixed magnetic skyrmion by modulating the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of a nanomagnet with an electric field. We can switch reversibly between two skyrmion states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Dhritiman Bhattacharya , Md Mamun Al-Rashid , Jayasimha Atulasimha

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization. Direct observation of the characteristic altermagnetic spin splitting, however, remains challenging. Indirect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Arsen Herasymchuk , Karl Bergson Hallberg , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder , E. V. Gorbar , Pavlo Sukhachov