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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…

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The recent discovery of tunable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in layered magnetic materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy makes them promising candidates for stabilization and manipulation of skyrmions at elevated…

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Research on magnetic systems with broken inversion symmetry has been stimulated by the experimental proof of particle-like configurations known as skyrmions, whose non-trivial topological properties make them ideal candidates for spintronic…

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

Skyrmions are topologically protected, two-dimensional, localized hedgehogs and whorls of spin. Originally invented as a concept in field theory for nuclear interactions, skyrmions are central to a wide range of phenomena in condensed…

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Skyrmions and bimerons are versatile topological spin textures that can be used as information bits for both classical and quantum computing. The transformation between isolated skyrmions and bimerons is an essential operation for computing…

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale, topologically protected spin textures with exceptional potential for high density data storage and energy efficient computing. Among various skyrmion hosting systems, rare earth transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Saroj Kumar Mishra , Y. K. Takahashi , C. Malavika , Karthik V. Raman , Jyoti Ranjan Mohanty

The creation and control of magnetic spin textures is of great interest in fundamental research and future device-oriented applications. Fe/Gd multilayers host a rich variety of magnetic textures including topologically trivial bubbles and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Tim Titze , Sabri Koraltan , Mailin Matthies , Timo Schmidt , Dieter Suess , Manfred Albrecht , Stefan Mathias , Daniel Steil

Skyrmions are important in topological quantum field theory for being soliton solutions of a nonlinear sigma model and in information technology for their attractive applications. Skyrmions are believed to be circular and stripy spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 X. R. Wang , X. C. Hu , H. T. Wu

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures which have attracted intense research for their fundamentally novel physics and potential applications as spintronic information carriers. The stability which makes them so potentially useful is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-07 William S. Parker , Jacques A. Reddinger , Benjamin J. McMorran

Magnetic skyrmions are stable topological solitons with complex non-coplanar spin structures. Their nanoscopic size and the low electric currents required to initiate and control their motion has opened a new field of research, skyrmionics,…

Large skyrmion bubbles in confined geometries of various sizes and shapes are investigated, typically in the range of several micrometers. Two fundamentally different cases are studied to address the role of dipole-dipole interactions: (I)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-24 Fanny C. Ummelen , Tom Lichtenberg , Henk J. M. Swagten , Bert Koopmans

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

Synthetic ferrimagnetic (SFiM) multilayers offer a versatile platform for hosting skyrmions with tunable magnetic properties, combining the advantages of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Unlike synthetic antiferromagnets, SFiMs retain a…

We present a metaheuristic conditional neural-network-based method aimed at identifying physically interesting metastable states in a potential energy surface of high rugosity. To demonstrate how this method works, we identify and analyze…

Skyrmions, as quasiparticles with topological spin textures, has recently garnered great attention for both condensed matter and structured wave communities, promising next-generation large-density robust information technologies. However,…

The development of skyrmionic devices requires a suitable tuning of material parameters in order to stabilize skyrmions and control their density. It has been demonstrated recently that different skyrmion types can be simultaneously…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stabilized quasi-particles and are promising candidates for energy-efficient applications, such as storage but also logic and sensing. Here we present a new concept for a multi-turn sensor-counter device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Kilian Leutner , Thomas Brian Winkler , Johannes Güttinger , Hans Fangohr , Mathias Kläui

Magnetic skyrmions form in chiral multilayers from the shrinking or fission of elongated stripe textures. Here we report an experimental and theoretical study of the temperature dependence of this stripe-to-skyrmion transition in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Xiaoye Chen , Edwin Chue , Jian Feng Kong , Hui Ru Tan , Hang Khume Tan , Anjan Soumyanarayanan

In spin-orbit coupled crystals, symmetries can protect multifold degeneracies with large Chern numbers and Brillouin zone spanning topological surface states. In this work, we explore the extent to which the nontrivial topology of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Mao Lin , Iñigo Robredo , Niels B. M. Schröter , Claudia Felser , Maia G. Vergniory , Barry Bradlyn