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 …

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 …

Ferroelectrically tunable magnetic skyrmions in ultrathin oxide heterostructures

L Wang, Q Feng, Y Kim, R Kim, KH Lee, SD Pollard… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected whirling spin texture. Their nanoscale
dimensions, topologically protected stability and solitonic nature, together are promising for …

A theory on skyrmion size

XS Wang, HY Yuan, XR Wang - Communications Physics, 2018 - nature.com
A magnetic skyrmion is a topological object consisting of a skyrmion core, an outer domain,
and a wall that separates the skyrmion core from the outer domain. The skyrmion size and …

Physical foundations and basic properties of magnetic skyrmions

AN Bogdanov, C Panagopoulos - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions (or vortices) are spatially inhomogeneous spin textures localized in
nanoscale cylindrical regions. Their small size and unique stability make skyrmions …

Very large Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in two-dimensional Janus manganese dichalcogenides and its application to realize skyrmion states

J Liang, W Wang, H Du, A Hallal, K Garcia, M Chshiev… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), which only exists in noncentrosymmetric
systems, is responsible for the formation of exotic chiral magnetic states. The absence of …

Skyrmion gas manipulation for probabilistic computing

D Pinna, F Abreu Araujo, JV Kim, V Cros, D Querlioz… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
The topologically protected magnetic spin configurations known as Skyrmions offer
promising applications due to their stability, mobility, and localization. We emphasize how to …

Two-dimensional magnetic Janus monolayers and their van der Waals heterostructures: a review on recent progress

J Jiang, W Mi - Materials Horizons, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A magnetic Janus monolayer, a special type of material which has asymmetric
arrangements of its surface at the nanoscale, has been shown to present rather exotic …

Transformation of a skyrmionium to a skyrmion through the thermal annihilation of the inner skyrmion

A Jiang, Y Zhou, X Zhang, M Mochizuki - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Skyrmioniums are doughnutlike topological spin textures in chiral magnets, which are able
to move with zero skyrmion Hall effect. The annihilation of a skyrmionium involves the …

Skyrmions and antiskyrmions in quasi-two-dimensional magnets

AA Kovalev, S Sandhoefner - Frontiers in Physics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic texture, could be an ideal
element for ultra-dense magnetic memories. Here, we review recent progress in the field of …