Optical skyrmions and other topological quasiparticles of light

Y Shen, Q Zhang, P Shi, L Du, X Yuan, AV Zayats - Nature Photonics, 2024‏ - nature.com
Skyrmions are topologically stable quasiparticles that have been predicted and
demonstrated in quantum fields, solid-state physics and magnetic materials, but only …

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 …

Square and rhombic lattices of magnetic skyrmions in a centrosymmetric binary compound

R Takagi, N Matsuyama, V Ukleev, L Yu… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable swirling spin textures with particle-like
character, and have been intensively studied as a candidate of high-density information bit …

Generation of optical skyrmions with tunable topological textures

Y Shen, EC Martínez, C Rosales-Guzmán - ACS Photonics, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
In recent times, the optical-analogous skyrmions, topological quasiparticles with
sophisticated vectorial structures in light, have received an increasing amount of interest …

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 …

[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 …

Nanometric square skyrmion lattice in a centrosymmetric tetragonal magnet

ND Khanh, T Nakajima, X Yu, S Gao, K Shibata… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable spin swirls with a particle-like character and are
potentially suitable for the design of high-density information bits. Although most known …

Probing condensed matter physics with magnetometry based on nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond

F Casola, T Van Der Sar, A Yacoby - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018‏ - nature.com
The magnetic fields generated by spins and currents provide a unique window into the
physics of correlated-electron materials and devices. First proposed only a decade ago …

Transformation between meron and skyrmion topological spin textures in a chiral magnet

XZ Yu, W Koshibae, Y Tokunaga, K Shibata, Y Taguchi… - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
Crystal lattices with tetragonal or hexagonal structure often exhibit structural transitions in
response to external stimuli. Similar behaviour is anticipated for the lattice forms of …

Above-room-temperature chiral skyrmion lattice and Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in a van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3−xGaTe2

C Zhang, Z Jiang, J Jiang, W He, J Zhang, F Hu… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Skyrmions in existing 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials have primarily been limited to
cryogenic temperatures, and the underlying physical mechanism of the Dzyaloshinskii …