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We report the discovery of a thermodynamically stable skyrmion-antiskyrmion lattice in two-dimensional heterostructures, a novel state exhibiting a net-zero global topological charge owing to an equal population of skyrmions and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Sayan Banik , Ashis K. Nandy

Topological spin textures have attracted much attention both for fundamental physics and spintronics applications. Among them, antiskyrmions possess a unique spin configuration with Bloch-type and N\'eel-type domain walls due to anisotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-26 Kosuke Karube , Licong Peng , Jan Masell , Xiuzhen Yu , Fumitaka Kagawa , Yoshinori Tokura , Yasujiro Taguchi

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that hold great promise as nanoscale information carriers in non-volatile memory and logic devices. While room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-induced manipulation were…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) and ferromagnetic (FM) skyrmions possess unique advantages for spintronic applications. AFM skyrmions eliminate the skyrmion Hall effect and exhibit fast dynamics, whereas FM skyrmions are easier to nucleate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-03 Xinyang Jiang , Jian Wu , Weiyi Pan

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

We introduce and systematically investigate a new class of topological magnetic textures, skyrmionium meta-matter, composed of skyrmioniums (Skm, $Q=0$) and skyrmions (Sk, $Q=-1$) arranged in periodic lattices mimicking the richness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Andrey O. Leonov , Kaito Nakamura

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures in ferromagnetic materials that hold great promise for both classical information storage and processing, as well as for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Realizing practical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 N. I. Simchuck , I. S. Burmistrov , S. S. Apostoloff

Isolated magnetic skyrmions are stable, topologically protected spin textures that are at the forefront of research interests today due to their potential applications in information technology. A distinct class of skyrmion hosts are rare…

Non-collinear magnets exhibit a rich array of dynamic properties at microwave frequencies. They can host nanometre-scale topological textures known as skyrmions, whose spin resonances are expected to be highly sensitive to their local…

This work discusses the rich phase diagram of non-trivial chiral spin textures in confined ferromagnetic/heavy-metal (FM/HM) bilayer nanomagnets of circular cross-section. These spin textures are realized as a minimum-energy ground state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Nimisha Arora , Yogesh Kumar , Pintu Das

Ambient magnetic skyrmions stabilized in multilayer nanostructures are of immense interest due to their relevance to magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices for memory and unconventional computing applications. However, existing skyrmionic…

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures with non-trivial topology that comprise two-dimensional quasi-particles and are promising information carriers for data storage and processing devices. Skyrmion lattices in magnetic thin films…

We show that skyrmions on the surface of a magnetic topological insulator may experience an attractive interaction that leads to the formation of a skyrmion-skyrmion bound state. This is in contrast to the case of skyrmions in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Kunal L. Tiwari , J. Lavoie , T. Pereg-Barnea , W. A. Coish

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin textures that their thermal stability originates from the nontrivial topology in nature. Recently, a plethora of topological spin textures have been theoretically predicted or experimentally observed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Yu Li , Yuzhe Zang , Runze Chen , Christoforos Moutafis

When two magnetic skyrmions - whirl-like, topologically protected quasiparticles - form a bound pair, a biskyrmion state with a topological charge of $N_\mathrm{Sk}=\pm 2$ is constituted. Recently, especially the case of two partially…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-03 Börge Göbel , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

Using first-principles density functional theory (DFT) combined with atomistic spin simulations, we explore the possibility of realizing zero-field isolated skyrmions in three 4$d$/Co atomic bilayers -- Rh/Co, Pd/Co, and Ru/Co -- grown on…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-02 Moinak Ghosh , Stefan Heinze , Souvik Paul

Skyrmions are particle-like topological excitations, studied in various condensed matter systems and models of high-energy physics (HEP). They occur as stable spin textures in certain planar magnetic materials and as configurations in…

Skyrmions, which are topologically stable magnetic structures, have manifested promising features to be used as an information carrier in new-age, non-volatile data storage devices. In this article, Co/Pt square nano-structure with Co-free…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-23 Tamali Mukherjee , V Satya Narayana Murthy

Magnetic skyrmions are promising for next-generation information storage and processing owing to their potential advantages in data storage density, robustness, and energy efficiency. The magnetic multilayers consisting of Pt, Co, and a…

Topologically stable structures include vortices in a wide variety of matter, such as skyrmions in ferro- and antiferromagnets, and hedgehog point defects in liquid crystals and ferromagnets. These are characterized by integer-valued…