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 …

[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 …

Tunable room-temperature magnetic skyrmions in Ir/Fe/Co/Pt multilayers

A Soumyanarayanan, M Raju, AL Gonzalez Oyarce… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale topological spin structures offering great promise for next-
generation information storage technologies. The recent discovery of sub-100-nm room …

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 …

Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions in metallic films and multilayers: a new twist for spintronics

R Wiesendanger - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are chiral quasiparticles that show promise for the transportation and
storage of information. On a fundamental level, skyrmions are model systems for …

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 …

Theory of isolated magnetic skyrmions: From fundamentals to room temperature applications

F Büttner, I Lemesh, GSD Beach - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasiparticles of great interest for data storage
applications because of their small size, high stability, and ease of manipulation via electric …

Skyrmions in magnetic multilayers

W Jiang, G Chen, K Liu, J Zang, SGE Te Velthuis… - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
Symmetry breaking together with strong spin–orbit interaction gives rise to many exciting
phenomena within condensed matter physics. A recent example is the existence of chiral …

Skyrmion-electronics: An overview and outlook

W Kang, Y Huang, X Zhang, Y Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The well-known empirical phenomenon known as Moore's Law has held true for the past
half century. However, it is beginning to break down, owing to limitations arising from …

The role of temperature and drive current in skyrmion dynamics

K Litzius, J Leliaert, P Bassirian, D Rodrigues… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stabilized nanoscale spin structures that could be of
use in the development of future spintronic devices. When a skyrmion is driven by an electric …