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Recently, an O(3) type of effective action was proposed for the quantum Hall ferromagnet, which accounts for bag formation observed in microscopic Hartree- Fock calculations. We apply this action in the soliton sector and compare with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Teufel , H. Walliser

The Hall effect, which originates from the motion of charged particles in magnetic fields, has deep consequences for the description of materials, extending far beyond condensed matter. Understanding such an effect in interacting systems…

The low energy charged excitations in quantum Hall ferromagnets are topological defects in the spin orientation known as skyrmions. Recent experimental studies on nuclear magnetic resonance spectral line shapes in quantum well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jairo Sinova , S. M. Girvin , T. Jungwirth , K. Moon

An integer winding, i.e., topological charge, is a characteristic of skyrmions, which are topologically nontrivial spin patterns in magnets. They emerge when smooth two-dimensional spin configurations are stabilized by conflicting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Hillol Biswas

In this review we discuss the latest results concerning development of the machine learning algorithms for characterization of the magnetic skyrmions that are topologically-protected magnetic textures originated from the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-06 Vladimir V. Mazurenko , Ilia A. Iakovlev , Oleg M. Sotnikov , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

We report on a study of the charged-skyrmion or spin-texture excitations which occur in quantum Hall ferromagnets near odd Landau level filling factors. Particle-hole symmetry is used to relate the spin-quantum numbers of charged particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 H. A. Fertig , L. Brey , R. Cote , A. H. MacDonald , A. Karlhede , S. L. Sondhi

A microscopic description of (baby)skyrmions in quantum Hall ferromagnets is derived from a scattering theory of collective (neutral) spin modes by a bare quasiparticle. We start by mapping the low lying spectrum of spin waves in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. H. Oaknin , B. Paredes , C. Tejedor

In this paper we study in detail different types of topological solitons which are possible in bilayer quantum Hall systems at filling fraction $\nu =1$ when spin degrees of freedom are included. Starting from a microscopic Hamiltonian we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sankalpa Ghosh , R. Rajaraman

We discuss in details the electron scattering pattern on skyrmion-like magnetic textures in two-dimensional geometry. The special attention is focused on analyzing the scattering asymmetry, which is a precursor of the topological Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 K. S. Denisov

The flow of electric current through a two-dimensional material in a magnetic field gives rise to the family of Hall effects. The quantum versions of these effects accommodate robust electronic edge channels and fractional charges.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-21 Robert Peters , Jannis Neuhaus-Steinmetz , Thore Posske

The spin-excitations of a fractional quantum Hall system are evaluated within a bosonization approach. In a first step, we generalize Murthy and Shankar's Hamiltonian theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect to the case of composite…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. L. Doretto , M. O. Goerbig , P. Lederer , A. O. Caldeira , C. Morais Smith

These pedagogical lecture notes present a general introduction to most aspects of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects. This is followed by an extensive discussion of quantum Hall ferromagnetism, both for spins in single-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven M. Girvin

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically wound nanoscale textures of spins whose ambient stability and electrical manipulation in multilayer films have led to an explosion of research activities. While past efforts focused predominantly on…

Current-driven dynamics of spin textures plays a pivotal role in potential applications for electronic devices. While two-dimensional magnetic skyrmions with topologically nontrivial spin textures have garnered significant interest, their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-25 Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Electrical detection of topological magnetic textures such as skyrmions is currently limited to conducting materials. While magnetic insulators offer key advantages for skyrmion technologies with high speed and low loss, they have not yet…

Skyrmions are particle-like topological textures that hold great promise for low-power electronics and wave-based functionalities. Yet their utility is hindered by the lack of robust and controllable transport. Here, we show that band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Lei Liu , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Magnetic skyrmions are two-dimensional non-collinear spin textures characterised by an integer topological number. They commonly crystallise at low temperatures in bulk noncentrosymmetric ferromagnets where the lack of inversion symmetry…

The fractional quantum Hall effect remains a captivating area in condensed matter physics, characterized by strongly correlated topological order, which manifests as fractionalized excitations and anyonic statistics. Numerical simulations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-27 Yi Yang , Yayun Hu , Zi-Xiang Hu

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…

Background: Idealised systems are commonly used in nuclear physics and condensed matter. For instance, the construction of nuclear energy density functionals involves properties of infinite matter, while neutron drops are used to test…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-08 A. W. Bray , C. Simenel