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The potential for manipulating characteristics of skyrmions in a CrI$_3$ monolayer using circularly polarised light is explored. The effective skyrmion-light interaction is mediated by bright excitons whose magnetization is selectively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 M. Kazemi , A. Kudlis , P. F. Bessarab , I. A. Shelykh

Recent observations of topological spin textures brought spintronics one step closer to new magnetic memories. Nevertheless, the existence of Skyrmions, as well as their stabilization, require very specific intrinsic magnetic properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 E. A. Stepanov , C. Dutreix , M. I. Katsnelson

Magnetic skyrmion bags, as high-order topological swirling spin textures, offer rich fundamental physics and distinct advantages for spintronic applications; however, their realization remains a formidable challenge, especially in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Junhuang Yang , Kaiying Dou , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

We deal with magnetic structures that attain integer and half-integer skyrmion numbers. We model and solve the problem analytically, and show how the solutions appear in materials that engender distinct, very specific physical properties,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 D. Bazeia , J. G. G. S. Ramos , E. I. B. Rodrigues

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected chiral spin textures which present opportunities for next-generation magnetic data storage and logic information technologies. The topology of these structures originates in the geometric…

Skyrmions are topologically stable quasiparticles that have been predicted and demonstrated in quantum fields, solid-state physics, and magnetic materials, but only recently observed in electromagnetic fields, triggering fast expanding…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-05 Yijie Shen , Qiang Zhang , Peng Shi , Luping Du , Xiaocong Yuan , Anatoly V. Zayats

Here we consider an interplay between the topology of the magnetization texture (which is a topological soliton, or Skyrmion) in a planar magnetic nano-element and the topology of the element itself (its connectivity). We establish the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Andrei B. Bogatyrëv , Konstantin L. Metlov

Light beams, with their rich degrees of freedom, including polarization and phase, along with their flexible tunability, have emerged as an ideal tool for generating magnetic topological textures.However, how to precisely control the light…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-03 Qifan Zhang , Shirong Lin , Wu Zhang

Competing magnetic interactions may stabilize smooth magnetization textures that can be characterized by a topological winding number. Such textures, which are spatially localized within a two-dimensional plane, are commonly known as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Alexander P. Petrović , Christina Psaroudaki , Peter Fischer , Markus Garst , Christos Panagopoulos

The review is aimed at highlighting the aspects of topological superconductivity in the absence of spin-orbit interaction in two-dimensional systems with long-range non-collinear spin ordering or magnetic skyrmions. Another purpose is to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-22 A. O. Zlotnikov , M. S. Shustin , A. D. Fedoseev

Magnetic skyrmions are key candidates for novel memory, logic, and neuromorphic computing. An essential property is their topological protection caused by the whirling spin texture as described by a robust integer winding number. However,…

Topologically nontrivial magnetic textures such as skyrmions offer promising opportunities for spintronic applications. In recent years, it has been shown that the magnetic properties of layered materials can be affected by depositing…

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 creation and real-space observation of magnetic structures with well-defined topological properties and a lateral size as low as about 150 nm. They are generated in a thin ferrimagnetic film by ultrashort single optical laser…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-06 M. Finazzi , M. Savoini , A. R. Khorsand , A. Tsukamoto , A. Itoh , L. Duò , A. Kirilyuk , Th. Rasing , M. Ezawa

Optical skyrmion beams, which encompass two-dimensional topology in their spatial structures, are promising for ultra-dense optical communications and advanced matter manipulation. Generating such light beams via a chip-based approach will…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-18 Wenbo Lin , Yasutomo Ota , Yasuhiko Arakawa , Satoshi Iwamoto

Electromagnetic waves characterized by intensity, phase, and polarization degrees of freedom are widely applied in data storage, encryption, and communications. However, these properties can be substantially affected by phase disorders and…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-26 Peng Shi , Min Lin , Xinxin Gou , Luping Du , Aiping Yang , Xiaocong Yuan

Skyrmions with topologically stable configurations have shown a promising route toward magnetic and photonic materials for information processing due to their defect-immune and low-driven energy. However, the practical application of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Liyun Cao , Sheng Wan , Yi Zeng , Yifan Zhu , Badreddine Assouar

The surfaces of intrinsic magnetic topological insulators (TIs) host magnetic moments exchange-coupled to Dirac electrons. We study the magnetic phases arising from tuning the electron density using variational and exact diagonalization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-23 Nisarga Paul , Liang Fu

Optical skyrmion serves as a crucial interface between optics and topology. Recently, it has attracted great interest in linear optics. Here, we theoretically introduce a framework for the all-optical generation and control of freespace…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-29 Yiqi Fang , Yunquan Liu

Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture stabilized by the protection due to their topology. In most cases they are induced by chiral interactions between atomic spins existing in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-21 Albert Fert , Nicolas Reyren , Vincent Cros