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 …

Current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems

A Manchon, J Železný, IM Miron, T Jungwirth… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged
as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin …

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 …

Magnetic skyrmions: advances in physics and potential applications

A Fert, N Reyren, V Cros - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture. Their
stabilization and dynamics depend strongly on their topological properties. In most cases …

[HTML][HTML] Emergent phenomena induced by spin–orbit coupling at surfaces and interfaces

A Soumyanarayanan, N Reyren, A Fert… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling (SOC) describes the relativistic interaction between the spin and
momentum degrees of freedom of electrons, and is central to the rich phenomena observed …

Direct observation of the skyrmion Hall effect

W Jiang, X Zhang, G Yu, W Zhang, X Wang… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
The well-known Hall effect describes the transverse deflection of charged particles
(electrons/holes) as a result of the Lorentz force. Similarly, it is intriguing to examine if quasi …

Room-temperature chiral magnetic skyrmions in ultrathin magnetic nanostructures

O Boulle, J Vogel, H Yang, S Pizzini… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures with a whirling configuration. Their topological
properties, nanometre size and the fact that they can be moved by small current densities …

Tunable room-temperature magnetic skyrmions in Ir/Fe/Co/Pt multilayers

A Soumyanarayanan, M Raju, AL Gonzalez Oyarce… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale topological spin structures offering great promise for next-
generation information storage technologies. The recent discovery of sub-100-nm room …

Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions in metallic films and multilayers: a new twist for spintronics

R Wiesendanger - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are chiral quasiparticles that show promise for the transportation and
storage of information. On a fundamental level, skyrmions are model systems for …

Additive interfacial chiral interaction in multilayers for stabilization of small individual skyrmions at room temperature

C Moreau-Luchaire, C Moutafis, N Reyren… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Facing the ever-growing demand for data storage will most probably require a new
paradigm. Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions are anticipated to solve this issue as they are …