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When a foreign atom is placed on a surface of a metal, the surrounding sea of electrons responds screening the additional charge leading to oscillations or ripples. On surfaces, those electrons are sometimes confined to two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Samir Lounis , Andreas Bringer , Stefan Blügel

Chiral magnetic skyrmions are topological solitons, of significant physical interest, arising in ferromagnets described by a micromagnetic energy including a chiral (Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya) interaction term. We show that for small chiral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Stephen Gustafson , Li Wang

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 article we use chiral domain walls to manipulate and trap magnetic skyrmion quasi-particles in chiral magnetic materials such as ultrathin Co/Pt films. The magnetic skyrmions can be orientated such that their interaction with domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Paul Leask

We theoretically study the impacts of linear spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction between magnetic impurities in two kinds of three-dimensional noncentrosymmetric systems. It has been found that linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Shi-Xiong Wang , Hao-Ran Chang , Jianhui Zhou

Magnetic chiral skyrmions are vortex like spin structures that appear as stable or meta-stable states in magnetic materials due to the interplay between the symmetric and antisymmetric exchange interactions, applied magnetic field and/or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-01 Changhoon Heo , Nikolai S. Kiselev , Ashis Kumar Nandy , Stefan Blügel , Theo Rasing

We investigate the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida oscillations of the itinerant carrier spin density in a system where those oscillations appear only due to a finite distribution of a localized spin. The system represents a half-infinite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-23 Sergey Smirnov

Magnetic skyrmions are intriguing topological spin textures that have attracted great attention due to their potential for future spintronic devices. Skyrmions have so far been explored in different magnetic materials, such as ferromagnets,…

Recent neutron scattering and thermodynamic measurements suggest that Weyl electrons in the emergent Weyl semimetal SmAlSi mediate unconventional magnetic interactions and induce spiral magnetic order. In this work, we investigate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-18 Lasin Thaivalappil , Rahul Verma , Hsin Lin , Bahadur Singh , Shin-Ming Huang

Skyrmions, originally from condensed matter physics, have been widely explored in various physical systems, including soft matter. A crucial challenge in manipulating topological solitary waves like skyrmions is controlling their flow on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-23 Jiahao Chen , Wentao Tang , Xingzhou Tang , Yang Ding , Jie Ni , Yuxi Chen , Bingxiang Li , Rui Zhang , Juan de Pablo , Yanqing Lu

The observation of skyrmions across diverse physical domains suggests that they are universal features of S$^{2}$-valued fields, reflecting the ubiquity of topology in the study of the natural world. In this paper, we develop an abstract…

A skyrmion can be stabilized in a nanodisc geometry in a ferromagnetic material with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction. We apply spin torque uniform in space and time and observe numerically that the skyrmion is set in steady…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Naveen Sisodia , Stavros Komineas , Pranaba Kishor Muduli

Chiral spin textures such as skyrmions have attracted considerable attention due to their nontrivial topology, chirality, stability at the nanoscale, and potential for low-power spintronic devices. The recent discovery of intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Nihad Abuawwad , Samir Lounis

Skyrmions can be driven by spin-orbit torques as a result of the spin Hall effect. Here we model an additional contribution in ultra-thin multilayers, arising from the spin accumulation at heavy metal / ferromagnetic interfaces and observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 C. R. MacKinnon , S. Lepadatu , T. Mercer , P. Bissell

Understanding the spin-wave excitations of chiral magnetic order, such as the skyrmion crystal (SkX), is of fundamental interest to confirm such exotic magnetic order. The SkX is realized by competing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-14 Narayan Mohanta , Andrew D. Christianson , Satoshi Okamoto , Elbio Dagotto

We find numerically skyrmionic textures with skyrmion number Q=0 in ferromagnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and perpendicular anisotropy. These have the form of a skyrmion-antiskyrmion pair and may be called chiral droplets.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Naveen Sisodia , Pranaba Kishor Muduli , Nikos Papanicolaou , Stavros Komineas

Using Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, we study the skyrmion stability/instability as a response to uniaxial mechanical stresses. Skyrmions emerge in chiral magnetic materials as a stable spin configuration under external magnetic field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-03 Sahbi El Hog , Fumitake Kato , Satoshi Hongo , Hiroshi Koibuchi , Gildas Diguet , Tetsuya Uchimoto , Hung T. Diep

Magnetic skyrmions (or vortices) are spatially inhomogeneous spin textures localized in nanoscale cylindrical regions. Topological protection and small size make skyrmions especially attractive for the study of spin topology and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Alexei N. Bogdanov , Christos Panagopoulos

Spontaneously emergent chirality is an issue of fundamental importance across the natural sciences. It has been argued that a unidirectional (chiral) rotation of a mechanical ratchet is forbidden in thermal equilibrium, but becomes possible…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-23 M. Mochizuki , X. Z. Yu , S. Seki , N. Kanazawa , W. Koshibae , J. Zang , M. Mostovoy , Y. Tokura , N. Nagaosa

We study realizations of spirals and skyrmions in two-dimensional antiferromagnets with a triangular lattice on an inversion-symmetry-breaking substrate. As a possible material realization, we investigate the adsorption of transition-metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-07 Wuzhang Fang , Aldo Raeliarijaona , Po-Hao Chang , Alexey A. Kovalev , Kirill D. Belashchenko