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 …

Universality of defect-skyrmion interaction profiles

I Lima Fernandes, J Bouaziz, S Blügel… - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are prime candidates for future spintronic devices. However,
incorporating them as information carriers hinges on their interaction with defects ubiquitous …

Skyrmion–skyrmion interaction in a magnetic film

D Capic, DA Garanin… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Interaction of two skyrmions stabilized by the ferromagnetic exchange, Dzyaloshinskii–
Moriya interaction (DMI), and external magnetic field has been studied numerically on a 2D …

Magnetic skyrmion diode: Unidirectional skyrmion motion via symmetry breaking of potential energy barriers

DH Jung, HS Han, N Kim, G Kim, S Jeong, S Lee… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We realize a magnetic skyrmion diode operated by a unidirectional skyrmion transport that
flows in only one direction, which is highly significant for information processing in spintronic …

Soliton motion in skyrmion chains: Stabilization and guidance by nanoengineered pinning

NP Vizarim, JCB Souza, CJO Reichhardt, C Reichhardt… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Using a particle-based model we examine the depinning motion of solitons in skyrmion
chains in quasi-one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) systems containing …

Dynamics of an antiferromagnetic skyrmion in a racetrack with a defect

X Liang, G Zhao, L Shen, J Xia, L Zhao, X Zhang… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
The antiferromagnetic skyrmion is a promising building block for future antiferromagnetic
spintronic devices, which has several advantages, including ultrafast dynamics and zero …

A skyrmion diode based on skyrmion Hall effect

Y Feng, X Zhang, G Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE) is usually considered as a drawback in technological
applications based on magnetic skyrmion and much effort has been made to suppress the …

Manipulation of magnetic skyrmions by superconducting vortices in ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructures

RM Menezes, JFS Neto, CCS Silva, MV Milošević - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Dynamics of magnetic skyrmions in hybrid ferromagnetic films harbors interesting physical
phenomena and holds promise for technological applications. In this work, we discuss the …

Real-space determination of the isolated magnetic skyrmion deformation under electric current flow

FS Yasin, J Masell, K Karube… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The manipulation and control of electron spins, the fundamental building blocks of magnetic
domains and spin textures, are at the core of spintronics. Of particular interest is the effect of …

Spontaneous skyrmion conformal lattice and transverse motion during dc and ac compression

JCB Souza, NP Vizarim, CJO Reichhardt… - New Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We use atomistic-based simulations to investigate the behavior of ferromagnetic skyrmions
being continuously compressed against a rigid wall under dc and ac drives. The …