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 …

Topological spin crystals by itinerant frustration

S Hayami, Y Motome - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Spin textures with nontrivial topology, such as vortices and skyrmions, have attracted
attention as a source of unconventional magnetic, transport, and optical phenomena …

Noncoplanar multiple- spin textures by itinerant frustration: Effects of single-ion anisotropy and bond-dependent anisotropy

S Hayami, Y Motome - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We theoretically investigate multiple-Q spin textures, which are composed of superpositions
of spin density waves with different wave numbers, for an effective spin model of …

Multifarious skyrmion phases on a trilayer triangular lattice

S Hayami - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The instability toward a magnetic skyrmion crystal in centrosymmetric trilayer magnets is
investigated based on a spin model with layer-dependent Dzayloshinskii-Moriya interaction …

Spin excitation spectra in helimagnetic states: Proper-screw, cycloid, vortex-crystal, and hedgehog lattices

Y Kato, S Hayami, Y Motome - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We investigate the spin excitation spectra in chiral and polar magnets by the linear spin-
wave theory for an effective spin model with symmetric and antisymmetric long-range …

Skyrmion crystals in centrosymmetric triangular magnets under hexagonal and trigonal single-ion anisotropy

S Hayami - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
We theoretically report an instability toward a skyrmion crystal in centrosymmetric magnets
under hexagonal and trigonal single-ion anisotropy. The results are obtained for a minimal …

A unified field theory of topological defects and non-linear local excitations

V Skogvoll, J Rønning, M Salvalaglio… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Topological defects and smooth excitations determine the properties of systems showing
collective order. We introduce a generic non-singular field theory that comprehensively …

Observation by SANS and PNR of pure Néel-type domain wall profiles and skyrmion suppression below room temperature in magnetic [Pt/CoFeB/Ru]10 multilayers

V Ukleev, F Ajejas, A Devishvili… - … and Technology of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We report investigations of the magnetic textures in periodic multilayers [Pt (1 nm)/(CoFeB
(0.8 nm)/Ru (1.4 nm)] 10 using polarised neutron reflectometry (PNR) and small-angle …

Magneto-optical spectroscopy on Weyl nodes for anomalous and topological Hall effects in chiral MnGe

Y Hayashi, Y Okamura, N Kanazawa, T Yu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Physics of Weyl electrons has been attracting considerable interests and further accelerated
by recent discoveries of giant anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and topological Hall effect (THE) …

High-Temperature Intrinsic Two-Dimensional-XY Ferromagnetism and Strong Magnetoelastic Coupling in Tetragonal Monolayer MnGe

Y Qu, Y Liao, J He, Y Chen, G Yao - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) materials with novel magnetism is a compelling
problem of condensed material physics and materials science but is still a challenge. Here …