Experimental signatures of quantum and topological states in frustrated magnetism

J Khatua, B Sana, A Zorko, M Gomilšek, K Sethupathi… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Frustration in magnetic materials arising from competing exchange interactions can prevent
the system from adopting long-range magnetic order and can instead lead to a diverse …

Tilted spirals and low-temperature skyrmions in

M Crisanti, AO Leonov, R Cubitt, A Labh, H Wilhelm… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The bulk helimagnet Cu 2 OSeO 3 represents a unique example in the family of B20 cubic
helimagnets exhibiting a tilted spiral and skyrmion phase at low temperatures when the …

Anisotropic Skyrmion and Multi- Spin Dynamics in Centrosymmetric

M Gomilšek, TJ Hicken, MN Wilson, KJA Franke… - Physical Review Letters, 2025 - APS
Skyrmions are particlelike vortices of magnetization with nontrivial topology, which are
usually stabilized by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI) in noncentrosymmetric bulk …

Topological defect-mediated skyrmion annihilation in three dimensions

MT Birch, D Cortés-Ortuño, ND Khanh, S Seki… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
The creation and annihilation of magnetic skyrmions are mediated by three-dimensional
topological defects known as Bloch points. Investigation of such dynamical processes is …

Increased lifetime of metastable skyrmions by controlled do**

MT Birch, R Takagi, S Seki, MN Wilson, F Kagawa… - Physical review B, 2019 - APS
Previous observations of metastable magnetic skyrmions have shown that close to the
equilibrium pocket the metastable state has a short lifetime, and therefore, rapid cooling is …

Thermodynamic evidence of a second skyrmion lattice phase and tilted conical phase in

M Halder, A Chacon, A Bauer, W Simeth, S Mühlbauer… - Physical review B, 2018 - APS
Precision measurements of the magnetization and ac susceptibility of Cu 2 OSeO 3 are
reported for magnetic fields along different crystallographic directions, focusing on the …

Measuring the formation energy barrier of skyrmions in zinc-substituted

MN Wilson, M Crisanti, C Barker, A Štefančič, JS White… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We report small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements of the skyrmion lattice in
(Cu 0.976 Zn 0.024) 2 OSeO 3 under the application of electric and magnetic fields. These …

Megahertz dynamics in skyrmion systems probed with muon-spin relaxation

TJ Hicken, MN Wilson, KJA Franke, BM Huddart… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We present longitudinal-field muon-spin relaxation (LF μ SR) measurements on two systems
that stabilize a skyrmion lattice (SkL): Cu 2 OSeO 3, and Co x Zn y Mn 20− x− y for (x, y)=(10 …

Experimental evidence of a change of exchange anisotropy sign with temperature in Zn-substituted

SH Moody, P Nielsen, MN Wilson, DA Venero… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
We report small-angle neutron scattering from the conical state in a single crystal of Zn-
substituted Cu 2 OSeO 3. Using a 3D vector-field magnet to reorient the conical wave vector …

Stability and metastability of skyrmions in thin lamellae of

MN Wilson, MT Birch, A Štefančič… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We report small-angle x-ray scattering measurements of the skyrmion lattice in two 200-nm-
thick Cu 2 OSeO 3 lamellae aligned with the applied magnetic field parallel to the out of …