Advances in artificial spin ice

SH Skjærvø, CH Marrows, RL Stamps… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Artificial spin ices consist of nanomagnets arranged on the sites of various periodic and
aperiodic lattices. They have enabled the experimental investigation of a variety of …

Statics and dynamics of skyrmions interacting with disorder and nanostructures

C Reichhardt, CJO Reichhardt, MV Milošević - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable nanoscale particlelike objects that were
discovered in 2009. Since that time, intense research interest in the field has led to the …

Skyrmions in magnetic multilayers

W Jiang, G Chen, K Liu, J Zang, SGE Te Velthuis… - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
Symmetry breaking together with strong spin–orbit interaction gives rise to many exciting
phenomena within condensed matter physics. A recent example is the existence of chiral …

Confinement and protection of skyrmions by patterns of modified magnetic properties

K Ohara, X Zhang, Y Chen, Z Wei, Y Ma, J Xia… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Magnetic skyrmions are versatile topological excitations that can be used as nonvolatile
information carriers. The confinement of skyrmions in channels is fundamental for any …

Colloquium: Ice rule and emergent frustration in particle ice and beyond

A Ortiz-Ambriz, C Nisoli, C Reichhardt… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Geometric frustration and the ice rule are two concepts that are intimately connected and
widespread across condensed matter. The first refers to the inability of a system to satisfy …

Switchable geometric frustration in an artificial-spin-ice–superconductor heterosystem

YL Wang, X Ma, J Xu, ZL Xiao, A Snezhko… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Geometric frustration emerges when local interaction energies in an ordered lattice structure
cannot be simultaneously minimized, resulting in a large number of degenerate states. The …

Pinning of magnetic skyrmions in a monolayer Co film on Pt (111): Theoretical characterization and exemplified utilization

D Stosic, TB Ludermir, MV Milošević - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale windings of the spin structure that can be observed in
chiral magnets and hold promise for potential applications in storing or processing …

Fundamental theory of current-induced motion of magnetic skyrmions

Y Ohki, M Mochizuki - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that appear in magnets with broken spatial
inversion symmetry as a consequence of competition between the (anti) ferromagnetic …

Wavelength-tuned transformation between photonic skyrmion and meron spin textures

M Lin, Q Liu, H Duan, L Du, X Yuan - Applied Physics Reviews, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Topological spin textures, among which skyrmions and merons are typical examples, have
with their swirling vectorial structures triggered enormous interest in physical systems …

Control and manipulation of antiferromagnetic skyrmions in racetrack

H Xia, C Jin, C Song, J Wang, J Wang… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Controllable manipulations of magnetic skyrmions are essential for next-generation
spintronic devices. Here, the duplication and merging of skyrmions, as well as logical AND …