Magnetic skyrmions: advances in physics and potential applications

A Fert, N Reyren, V Cros - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture. Their
stabilization and dynamics depend strongly on their topological properties. In most cases …

Current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems

A Manchon, J Železný, IM Miron, T Jungwirth… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged
as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin …

From DFT to machine learning: recent approaches to materials science–a review

GR Schleder, ACM Padilha, CM Acosta… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent advances in experimental and computational methods are increasing the quantity
and complexity of generated data. This massive amount of raw data needs to be stored and …

Observation of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-driven dynamics in ultrathin metallic ferromagnets

S Woo, K Litzius, B Krüger, MY Im, L Caretta… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions, are topologically protected spin textures that exhibit fascinating
physical behaviours,,,,, and large potential in highly energy-efficient spintronic device …

Current-driven dynamics of chiral ferromagnetic domain walls

S Emori, U Bauer, SM Ahn, E Martinez, GSD Beach - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
In most ferromagnets the magnetization rotates from one domain to the next with no
preferred handedness. However, broken inversion symmetry can lift the chiral degeneracy …

Emergent phenomena induced by spin–orbit coupling at surfaces and interfaces

A Soumyanarayanan, N Reyren, A Fert… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling (SOC) describes the relativistic interaction between the spin and
momentum degrees of freedom of electrons, and is central to the rich phenomena observed …

Writing and deleting single magnetic skyrmions

N Romming, C Hanneken, M Menzel, JE Bickel… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Topologically nontrivial spin textures have recently been investigated for spintronic
applications. Here, we report on an ultrathin magnetic film in which individual skyrmions can …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective: Magnetic skyrmions—Overview of recent progress in an active research field

K Everschor-Sitte, J Masell, RM Reeve… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Within a decade, the field of magnetic skyrmionics has developed from a niche prediction to
a huge and active research field. Not only do magnetic skyrmions—magnetic whirls with a …

First-principles calculations for Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction

H Yang, J Liang, Q Cui - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the magnetic interactions is of fundamental importance in condensed-matter
physics as well as in the application of spintronic devices. In the past 13 years, the …

Spontaneous atomic-scale magnetic skyrmion lattice in two dimensions

S Heinze, K Von Bergmann, M Menzel, J Brede… - nature physics, 2011 - nature.com
Skyrmions are topologically protected field configurations with particle-like properties that
play an important role in various fields of science. Recently, skyrmions have been observed …