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We report on the stabilization of ferromagnetic skyrmions in zero external magnetic fields, in exchange-biased systems composed of ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic (FM-AFM) bilayers. By performing atomistic spin dynamics simulations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-05 M. Pankratova , O. Eriksson , A. Bergman

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale topological textures that have been recently observed in different families of quantum magnets. These textures are known as CP$^1$ skyrmions because the target manifold of the magnetization field is the 2D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-21 Hao Zhang , Zhentao Wang , David Dahlbom , Kipton Barros , Cristian D. Batista

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

Skyrmions are particle-like spin textures that arise from spin spiral states in the presence of an external magnetic field. These spirals can originate from either frustrated Heisenberg exchange interactions or the interplay between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Timo Knispel , Vasily Tseplyaev , Gustav Bihlmayer , Stefan Blügel , Thomas Michely , Jeison Fischer

In non-centrosymmetric magnets the chiral Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange stabilizes Skyrmion-strings as excitations which may condense into multiply modulated phases. Such extended Skyrmionic textures are determined by the stability of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-14 U. K. Rößler , A. A. Leonov , A. N. Bogdanov

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in chiral magnets in the presence of a spin polarized current. The motion of skyrmions in the ferromagnetic background excites spin waves and contributes to additional damping. At a large current, the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-15 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

Using the field theory method and coherent spin state approach, we investigate properties of magnetic solitons in spacetime while focussing on 1D kinks, 2D and 3D skyrmions. We also study the case of a rigid skyrmion dissolved in a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Lalla Btissam Drissi , El Hassan Saidi , Mosto Bousmina , Omar Fassi-Fehri

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures that can act as reconfigurable nanoscale information carriers. In synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs), interlayer exchange coupling offers an additional control parameter beyond the…

Two-dimensional (2D) multiferroic materials with coexisting ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism have garnered substantial attention for their intriguing physical properties and diverse promising applications in spintronics. For example,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-27 Zuxin Fu , Kuanrong Hao , Min Guo , Jingjing He , Xiaohong Yan , Yangbo Zhou , Lei Shen , Jiaren Yuan

Increasing amounts of information force the continuous improvement of information storage and processing technologies, further device miniaturization, and their efficiency increase. Magnetic skyrmions, topological quasiparticles, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Mateusz Zelent , Mathieu Moalic , Michal Mruczkiewicz , Xiaoguang Li , Yan Zhou , Maciej Krawczyk

The index theorem implies that there are fermionic states localized on a soliton. Presence of these modes may significantly alter the pattern of interaction between the solitons. As a particular example we investigate the chiral magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 I. Perapechka , Ya. Shnir

Skyrmion crystals have been primarily discovered under a magnetic field for materials with non-centrosymmetric interactions. More recent developments have investigated the stability of skyrmion crystals in itinerant magnets without magnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-21 H. Bocquet , C. J. Ganahl , M. Scheurer , P. M. Derlet , A. M. Läuchli

We theoretically investigate the origin of the square-type skyrmion crystal in centrosymmetric itinerant magnets, motivated from the recent experimental finding in GdRu$_2$Si$_2$ [N. D. Khanh $\mathit{et}$ $\mathit{al.}$, Nat. Nanotech.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Satoru Hayami , Yukitoshi Motome

The notion of non-trivial topological winding in condensed matter systems represents a major area of present-day theoretical and experimental research. Magnetic materials offer a versatile platform that is particularly amenable for the…

We show that continuous and spin-lattice models of chiral ferro- and antiferromagnets provide the existence of an infinite number of stable soliton solutions of any integer topological charge. A detailed description of the morphology of new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-01 F. N. Rybakov , N. S. Kiselev

Skyrmions, topologically-protected nanometric spin vortices, are being investigated extensively in various magnets. Among them, many of structurally-chiral cubic magnets host the triangular-lattice skyrmion crystal (SkX) as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-19 K. Karube , J. S. White , N. Reynolds , J. L. Gavilano , H. Oike , A. Kikkawa , F. Kagawa , Y. Tokunaga , H. M. Rønnow , Y. Tokura , Y. Taguchi

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic spin structures exhibiting particle-like behaviour. They are of strong interest from a fundamental viewpoint and for application, where they have potential to act as information carriers in future…

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

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…

Antiferromagnetic(AFM) skyrmions have been in the spotlight as ideal topological magnetic bits. Although they are topologically protected, they do not exhibit the skyrmion Hall effect unlike the ferromagnetic ones. Thus, AFM skyrmions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Jemin Park , HaRu K. Park , SungBin Lee