Optical skyrmions and other topological quasiparticles of light

Y Shen, Q Zhang, P Shi, L Du, X Yuan, AV Zayats - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
Skyrmions are topologically stable quasiparticles that have been predicted and
demonstrated in quantum fields, solid-state physics and magnetic materials, but only …

Transient retrograde motion of spin wave driven skyrmions in magnetic nanotracks

L Huang, G Burnell, CH Marrows - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The motion of a skyrmion driven by propagating spin waves in a thin film track with interfacial
perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction was investigated …

Skyrmion jellyfish in driven chiral magnets

N del Ser, V Lohani - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
Chiral magnets can host topological particles known as skyrmions which carry an exactly
quantised topological charge $ Q=-1$. In the presence of an oscillating magnetic field $ B_1 …

Scaling, stability range, magnetic excitations and light-induced effects in Cu2OSeO3

J Sauceda Flores - 2022 - unsworks.unsw.edu.au
The delicate energetic balance between the competing symmetric and asymmetric magnetic
interactions found in magnetic skyrmion materials provides an interesting framework to …