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 …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond skyrmions: Review and perspectives of alternative magnetic quasiparticles

B Göbel, I Mertig, OA Tretiakov - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Magnetic skyrmions have attracted enormous research interest since their discovery a
decade ago. The non-trivial real-space topology of these nano-whirls leads to fundamentally …

Direct observation of the skyrmion Hall effect

W Jiang, X Zhang, G Yu, W Zhang, X Wang… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
The well-known Hall effect describes the transverse deflection of charged particles
(electrons/holes) as a result of the Lorentz force. Similarly, it is intriguing to examine if quasi …

Room-temperature chiral magnetic skyrmions in ultrathin magnetic nanostructures

O Boulle, J Vogel, H Yang, S Pizzini… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures with a whirling configuration. Their topological
properties, nanometre size and the fact that they can be moved by small current densities …

[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 …

Blowing magnetic skyrmion bubbles

W Jiang, P Upadhyaya, W Zhang, G Yu… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The formation of soap bubbles from thin films is accompanied by topological transitions.
Here we show how a magnetic topological structure, a skyrmion bubble, can be generated …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic skyrmion logic gates: conversion, duplication and merging of skyrmions

X Zhang, M Ezawa, Y Zhou - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions, which are topological particle-like excitations in ferromagnets, have
attracted a lot of attention recently. Skyrmionics is an attempt to use magnetic skyrmions as …

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 …

Antiferromagnetic skyrmion: stability, creation and manipulation

X Zhang, Y Zhou, M Ezawa - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like topological excitations in ferromagnets, which have the
topo-logical number Q=±1 and hence show the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE) due to the …