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 …

[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 …

Skyrmion-electronics: writing, deleting, reading and processing magnetic skyrmions toward spintronic applications

X Zhang, Y Zhou, KM Song, TE Park… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of magnetic skyrmions has been actively investigated across a wide range of topics
during the last decades. In this topical review, we mainly review and discuss key results and …

Zero-field skyrmions with a high topological number in itinerant magnets

R Ozawa, S Hayami, Y Motome - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
Magnetic Skyrmions are swirling spin textures with topologically protected noncoplanarity.
Recently, Skyrmions with the topological number of unity have been extensively studied in …

Noncentrosymmetric magnets hosting magnetic skyrmions

N Kanazawa, S Seki, Y Tokura - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of a skyrmion, which was first introduced by Tony Skyrme in the field of particle
physics, has become widespread in condensed matter physics to describe various …

Observation of two independent skyrmion phases in a chiral magnetic material

A Chacon, L Heinen, M Halder, A Bauer, W Simeth… - Nature physics, 2018 - nature.com
Magnetic materials can host skyrmions, which are topologically non-trivial spin textures. In
chiral magnets with cubic lattice symmetry, all previously observed skyrmion phases require …

Electrically switchable Rashba-type Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and skyrmion in two-dimensional magnetoelectric multiferroics

J Liang, Q Cui, H Yang - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Realizing topological magnetism and its electric control are intensive topics in spintronics
due to their promising applications in information storage and logic technologies. Here, we …

Entropy-limited topological protection of skyrmions

J Wild, TNG Meier, S Pöllath, M Kronseder, A Bauer… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected whirls that decay through singular magnetic
configurations known as Bloch points. We used Lorentz transmission electron microscopy to …

Topological Spin Textures: Basic Physics and Devices

Y Zhou, S Li, X Liang, Y Zhou - Advanced Materials, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
In the face of escalating modern data storage demands and the constraints of Moore's Law,
exploring spintronic solutions, particularly the devices based on magnetic skyrmions, has …

Probing dynamics in quantum materials with femtosecond X-rays

M Buzzi, M Först, R Mankowsky, A Cavalleri - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Optical pulses are routinely used to drive dynamic changes in the properties of solids. In
quantum materials, many new phenomena have been discovered, including ultrafast …