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Tailored magnetic multilayers (MMLs) provide skyrmions with enhanced thermal stability, leading to the possibility of skyrmion-based devices for room temperature applications. At the same time, the search for additional stable topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Runze Chen , Yu Li , William Griggs , Yuzhe Zang , Vasilis F. Pavlidis , Christoforos Moutafis

Geometric confinement (GC) of skyrmions in nanodomains plays a crucial role in skyrmion stabilization. This confinement effect decreases the magnetic field necessary for skyrmion formation and is closely related to the applied mechanical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-14 G. Diguet , B. Ducharne , S. El Hog , F. Kato , H. Koibuchi , T. Uchimoto , H. T. Diep

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin configurations in materials with chiral Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), that are potentially useful for storing or processing information. To date, DMI has been found in few bulk materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Dusan Stosic , Jeroen Mulkers , Bartel Van Waeyenberge , Teresa Ludermir , Milorad V. Milošević

Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like swirling spin structures with quantized topological number, observed in chiral magnets, are appealing for potential applications in spintronics because it is possible to control their motion with ultralow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Junichi Iwasaki , Masahito Mochizuki , Naoto Nagaosa

High tunability of two dimensional magnetic materials (by strain, gating, heterostructuring or otherwise) provides unique conditions for studying versatile magnetic properties and controlling emergent magnetic phases. Expanding the scope of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Raí M. Menezes , Clécio C. de Souza Silva , Milorad V. Milošević

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

Skyrmions--topologically protected nanoscale spin textures with vortex-like configurations--hold transformative potential for ultra-dense data storage, spintronics and quantum computing. However, their practical utility is challenged by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Lei Liu , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

We report on the effect of the lateral confinement and a perpendicular magnetic field on isolated room-temperature magnetic skyrmions in sputtered Pt/Co/MgO nanotracks and nanodots. We show that the skyrmions size can be easily tuned by…

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…

Solitonic magnetic excitations such as domain walls and, specifically, skyrmionics enable the possibility of compact, high density, ultrafast,all-electronic, low-energy devices, which is the basis for the emerging area of skyrmionics. The…

Nontrivial topological spin-textures, such as skyrmions, merons, bimerons, and skyrmioniums, are envisioned as robust building blocks for future memory and logic devices. Controllable transformations between these states require a…

Materials hosting magnetic skyrmions at room temperature could enable new computing architectures as well as compact and energetically efficient magnetic storage such as racetrack memories. In a racetrack device, information is coded by the…

The topological Hall effect is used extensively to study chiral spin textures in various materials. However, the factors controlling its magnitude in technologically-relevant thin films remain uncertain. Using variable temperature…

Chiral cubic Co-Zn-Mn magnets exhibit diverse topological spin textures, including room-temperature skyrmion phases and robust far-from-equilibrium metastable states. Despite recent advances in understanding metastable skyrmions, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-16 J. S. White , V. Ukleev , L. Yu , Y. Tokura , Y. Taguchi , K. Karube

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically-protected spin textures that exhibit fascinating physical behaviors and large potential in highly energy efficient spintronic device applications. The main obstacles so far are that skyrmions have been…

Controlling the magnetic order of antiferromagnets is challenging due to their vanishing net magnetization. For this reason, the study of local spin textures in antiferromagnets is restricted by the difficulty in nucleating such states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Miina Leiviskä , Sarah Jenkins , Richard F. L. Evans , Daria Gusakova , Vincent Baltz

Competing interactions produce finite-size textures in myriad condensed matter systems, typically forming elongated stripe or round bubble domains. Transitions between stripe and bubble phases, driven by field or temperature, are expected…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-01 Anthony K. C. Tan , James Lourembam , Xiaoye Chen , Pin Ho , Hang Khume Tan , Anjan Soumyanarayanan

Complex textured surfaces occur in nature and industry, from fingerprints to lithography-based micropatterns. Wrinkling by confinement to an incompatible substrate is an attractive way of generating reconfigurable patterned topographies,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-21 Ian Tobasco , Yousra Timounay , Desislava Todorova , Graham C. Leggat , Joseph D. Paulsen , Eleni Katifori

Target skyrmions (TSks) are topological spin textures where the out-of-plane component of the magnetization twists an integer number of $m$-$\pi$ rotations. Based on a magnetic multilayer stack in the form of $n\times$[CoFeB/MgO/Ta],…

In both nature and engineering, loosely packed granular materials are often compacted inside confined geometries. Here, we explore such behaviour in a quasi-two dimensional geometry, where parallel rigid walls provide the confinement. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-29 Benjy Marks , Bjørnar Sandnes , Guillaume Dumazer , Jon Alm Eriksen , Knut Jørgen Måløy