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 …

Topological spin crystals by itinerant frustration

S Hayami, Y Motome - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Spin textures with nontrivial topology, such as vortices and skyrmions, have attracted
attention as a source of unconventional magnetic, transport, and optical phenomena …

The 2020 skyrmionics roadmap

C Back, V Cros, H Ebert… - Journal of Physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The notion of non-trivial topological winding in condensed matter systems represents a
major area of present-day theoretical and experimental research. Magnetic materials offer a …

Skyrmion qubits: Challenges for future quantum computing applications

C Psaroudaki, E Peraticos, C Panagopoulos - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Magnetic nano-skyrmions develop quantized helicity excitations, and the quantum tunneling
between nano-skyrmions possessing distinct helicities is indicative of the quantum nature of …

Topological transitions among skyrmion-and hedgehog-lattice states in cubic chiral magnets

Y Fujishiro, N Kanazawa, T Nakajima, XZ Yu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Manipulating topological spin textures is a key for exploring unprecedented emergent
electromagnetic phenomena. Whereas switching control of magnetic skyrmions, eg, the …

Multiple skyrmion crystal phases by itinerant frustration in centrosymmetric tetragonal magnets

S Hayami - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2022 - journals.jps.jp
A skyrmion crystal (SkX) expressed as a multiple number of spiral modulations manifests
itself not only in its peculiar magnetic texture but also in nontrivial transport properties …

Noncoplanar multiple- spin textures by itinerant frustration: Effects of single-ion anisotropy and bond-dependent anisotropy

S Hayami, Y Motome - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We theoretically investigate multiple-Q spin textures, which are composed of superpositions
of spin density waves with different wave numbers, for an effective spin model of …

Phase shift in skyrmion crystals

S Hayami, T Okubo, Y Motome - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
The magnetic skyrmion crystal is a periodic array of a swirling topological spin texture. Since
it is regarded as an interference pattern by multiple helical spin density waves, the texture …

Phonon softening and atomic modulations in

AN Korshunov, AS Sukhanov, S Gebel, MS Pavlovskii… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
EuAl 4 is a rare-earth intermetallic in which competing itinerant and/or indirect exchange
mechanisms give rise to a complex magnetic phase diagram, including a centrosymmetric …

Effective spin model in momentum space: Toward a systematic understanding of multiple- instability by momentum-resolved anisotropic exchange interactions

R Yambe, S Hayami - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Multiple-Q magnetic states, such as a skyrmion crystal, become a source of unusual
transport phenomena and dynamics. Recent theoretical and experimental studies clarified …