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] 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 …

[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 …

Controlled transformation of skyrmions and antiskyrmions in a non-centrosymmetric magnet

L Peng, R Takagi, W Koshibae, K Shibata… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Control of topological spin textures in magnetic systems may enable future spintronic
applications. Magnetic field pulses can switch the vortex polarity or the winding number of …

Perspective on skyrmion spintronics

CH Marrows, K Zeissler - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Magnetic skyrmions are attractive for representing data in next-generation spintronic devices
owing to their stability, small size, and ease of manipulation with spin torques. In order to …

Magnetic bimerons as skyrmion analogues in in-plane magnets

B Göbel, A Mook, J Henk, I Mertig, OA Tretiakov - Physical review B, 2019 - APS
A magnetic bimeron is a pair of two merons and can be understood as the in-plane
magnetized version of a skyrmion. Here we theoretically predict the existence of single …

Quantifying the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction induced by the bulk magnetic asymmetry

Q Zhang, J Liang, K Bi, L Zhao, H Bai, Q Cui… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
A broken interfacial inversion symmetry in ultrathin ferromagnet/heavy metal (FM/HM)
bilayers is generally believed to be a prerequisite for accommodating the Dzyaloshinskii …

Anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya Interaction and Topological Magnetism in Two-Dimensional Magnets Protected by Pm2 Crystal Symmetry

Q Cui, Y Zhu, Y Ga, J Liang, P Li, D Yu, P Cui… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
As a fundamental magnetic parameter, Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction (DMI), has gained
a great deal of attention in the last two decades due to its critical role in formation of …

Anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction protected by D2d crystal symmetry in two-dimensional ternary compounds

Y Ga, Q Cui, Y Zhu, D Yu, L Wang, J Liang… - npj Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions, topologically protected chiral spin swirling quasiparticles, have
attracted great attention in fundamental physics and applications. Recently, the discovery of …

Skyrmions and antiskyrmions in quasi-two-dimensional magnets

AA Kovalev, S Sandhoefner - Frontiers in Physics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
A stable skyrmion, representing the smallest realizable magnetic texture, could be an ideal
element for ultra-dense magnetic memories. Here, we review recent progress in the field of …