[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 …

Thin film skyrmionics

T Dohi, RM Reeve, M Kläui - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
In condensed matter physics, magnetic skyrmions, topologically stabilized magnetic solitons,
have been discovered in various materials systems, which has intrigued the community in …

Room-temperature stabilization of antiferromagnetic skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets

W Legrand, D Maccariello, F Ajejas, S Collin… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Room-temperature skyrmions in ferromagnetic films and multilayers show promise for
encoding information bits in new computing technologies. Despite recent progress …

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 …

Isolated zero field sub-10 nm skyrmions in ultrathin Co films

S Meyer, M Perini, S von Malottki, A Kubetzka… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Due to their exceptional topological and dynamical properties magnetic skyrmions—
localized stable spin structures—show great promise for spintronic applications. To become …

Current‐induced skyrmion generation through morphological thermal transitions in chiral ferromagnetic heterostructures

I Lemesh, K Litzius, M Böttcher, P Bassirian… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic skyrmions promise breakthroughs in future memory and computing devices due to
their inherent stability and small size. Their creation and current driven motion have been …

Experimental identification of two distinct skyrmion collapse mechanisms

F Muckel, S von Malottki, C Holl, B Pestka, M Pratzer… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are key candidates for applications in memory, logic and neuromorphic
computing. An essential property is their topological protection that is caused by the swirling …

Vital role of magnetocrystalline anisotropy in cubic chiral skyrmion hosts

M Preißinger, K Karube, D Ehlers, B Szigeti… - npj Quantum …, 2021 - nature.com
Magnetic anisotropy is anticipated to govern the formation of exotic spin textures reported
recently in cubic chiral magnets, like low-temperature tilted conical and skyrmion lattice …

Majorana bound states in magnetic skyrmions imposed onto a superconductor

S Rex, IV Gornyi, AD Mirlin - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We consider a superconducting film exchange-coupled to a close-by chiral magnetic layer
and study how magnetic skyrmions can induce the formation of Majorana bound states …

Chiral Spin Spirals at the Surface of the van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2

MJ Meijer, J Lucassen, RA Duine, HJM Swagten… - Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Topologically protected magnetic structures provide a robust platform for low power
consumption devices for computation and data storage. Examples of these structures are …