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 …

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 …

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 …

Transformation between meron and skyrmion topological spin textures in a chiral magnet

XZ Yu, W Koshibae, Y Tokunaga, K Shibata, Y Taguchi… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Crystal lattices with tetragonal or hexagonal structure often exhibit structural transitions in
response to external stimuli. Similar behaviour is anticipated for the lattice forms of …

Nanometric square skyrmion lattice in a centrosymmetric tetragonal magnet

ND Khanh, T Nakajima, X Yu, S Gao, K Shibata… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable spin swirls with a particle-like character and are
potentially suitable for the design of high-density information bits. Although most known …

Magnetic small-angle neutron scattering

S Mühlbauer, D Honecker, ÉA Périgo, F Bergner… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is one of the most important techniques for
microstructure determination, being utilized in a wide range of scientific disciplines, such as …

Transition between distinct hybrid skyrmion textures through their hexagonal-to-square crystal transformation in a polar magnet

D Singh, Y Fujishiro, S Hayami, SH Moody… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions, topological vortex-like spin textures, garner significant interest due to
their unique properties and potential applications in nanotechnology. While they typically …

QUOKKA, the pinhole small-angle neutron scattering instrument at the OPAL Research Reactor, Australia: design, performance, operation and scientific highlights

K Wood, JP Mata, CJ Garvey, CM Wu… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - journals.iucr.org
QUOKKA is a 40 m pinhole small-angle neutron scattering instrument in routine user
operation at the OPAL research reactor at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology …

Magnetic chirality

SW Cheong, X Xu - npj Quantum Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Chirality with all broken mirror symmetries matters ubiquitously from DNA functionality, vine
climbing, to the piezoelectricity of quartz crystals. Magnetic chirality means chirality in spin …

Unique helical magnetic order and field-induced phase in trillium lattice antiferromagnet EuPtSi

K Kaneko, MD Frontzek, M Matsuda… - Journal of the Physical …, 2019 - journals.jps.jp
Magnetic transition phenomena in cubic chiral antiferromagnet EuPtSi with TN= 4.0 K were
investigated by means of single crystal neutron diffraction. At 0.3 K in the ground state …