Magnetic skyrmion materials

Y Tokura, N Kanazawa - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Skyrmion, a concept originally proposed in particle physics half a century ago, can now find
the most fertile field for its applicability, that is, the magnetic skyrmion realized in …

Skyrmion-electronics: writing, deleting, reading and processing magnetic skyrmions toward spintronic applications

X Zhang, Y Zhou, KM Song, TE Park… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of magnetic skyrmions has been actively investigated across a wide range of topics
during the last decades. In this topical review, we mainly review and discuss key results and …

Topological properties and dynamics of magnetic skyrmions

N Nagaosa, Y Tokura - Nature nanotechnology, 2013 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like nanometre-sized spin textures of topological origin
found in several magnetic materials, and are characterized by a long lifetime. Skyrmions …

Multiferroics of spin origin

Y Tokura, S Seki, N Nagaosa - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Multiferroics, compounds with both magnetic and ferroelectric orders, are believed to be a
key material system to achieve cross-control between magnetism and electricity in a solid …

A new class of chiral materials hosting magnetic skyrmions beyond room temperature

Y Tokunaga, XZ Yu, JS White, HM Rønnow… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Skyrmions, topologically protected vortex-like nanometric spin textures in magnets, have
been attracting increasing attention for emergent electromagnetic responses and possible …

Observation of various and spontaneous magnetic skyrmionic bubbles at room temperature in a frustrated kagome magnet with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy

Z Hou, W Ren, B Ding, G Xu, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The quest for materials hosting topologically protected skyrmionic spin textures continues to
be fueled by the promise of novel devices. Although many materials have demonstrated the …

Magnetic small-angle neutron scattering

S Mühlbauer, D Honecker, ÉA Périgo, F Bergner… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is one of the most important techniques for
microstructure determination, being utilized in a wide range of scientific disciplines, such as …

Ginzburg-Landau theory for skyrmions in inversion-symmetric magnets with competing interactions

SZ Lin, S Hayami - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Magnetic skyrmions have attracted considerable attention recently for their huge potential in
spintronic applications. Generally skyrmions are big compared to the atomic lattice constant …

A centrosymmetric hexagonal magnet with superstable biskyrmion magnetic nanodomains in a wide temperature range of 100K to 340K

W Wang, Y Zhang, G Xu, L Peng, B Ding… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
Here, we report on the experimental discovery of biskyrmion magnetic nanodomains at RT
and the observation of a biskyrmion-derived topological Hall effect (THE) in the …

Collective spin excitations of helices and magnetic skyrmions: review and perspectives of magnonics in non-centrosymmetric magnets

M Garst, J Waizner, D Grundler - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic materials hosting correlated electrons play an important role for information
technology and signal processing. The currently used ferro-, ferri-and antiferromagnetic …