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 …

Rashba-like physics in condensed matter

G Bihlmayer, P Noël, DV Vyalikh, EV Chulkov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling induces a unique form of Zeeman interaction in momentum space in
materials that lack inversion symmetry: the electron's spin is locked on an effective magnetic …

Insight into the structural and magnetic properties of RECo12B6 (RE= Ce, Pr, Nd) compounds: A combined experimental and theoretical investigation

Z Ma, P Xu, J Ying, Y Zhang, L Li - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Rare earth (RE) based RE-TM-X (TM= transition metal elements; X= P-block elements)
materials have received continuous attention due to the exhibition of various intriguing …

[HTML][HTML] Square and rhombic lattices of magnetic skyrmions in a centrosymmetric binary compound

R Takagi, N Matsuyama, V Ukleev, L Yu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable swirling spin textures with particle-like
character, and have been intensively studied as a candidate of high-density information bit …

Fractional antiferromagnetic skyrmion lattice induced by anisotropic couplings

S Gao, HD Rosales, FA Gomez Albarracin, V Tsurkan… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topological solitons with a nanoscale winding spin texture that hold
promise for spintronics applications,,–. Skyrmions have so far been observed in a variety of …

Topological hall transport: Materials, mechanisms and potential applications

H Wang, Y Dai, GM Chow, J Chen - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Topological Hall effect (THE) and its inverse effect (skyrmion Hall effect) generally occurs in
magnetic materials with topological properties, as a consequence of nonuniform and …

Square skyrmion crystal in centrosymmetric itinerant magnets

S Hayami, Y Motome - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We theoretically investigate the origin of the square-type skyrmion crystal in centrosymmetric
itinerant magnets, motivated by the recent experimental findings in GdRu 2 Si 2 [ND Khanh …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging the coupling between itinerant electrons and localised moments in the centrosymmetric skyrmion magnet GdRu2Si2

Y Yasui, CJ Butler, ND Khanh, S Hayami… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions were thought to be stabilised only in inversion-symmetry breaking
structures, but skyrmion lattices were recently discovered in inversion symmetric Gd-based …

[HTML][HTML] Topological spin crystals by itinerant frustration

S Hayami, Y Motome - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Spin textures with nontrivial topology, such as vortices and skyrmions, have attracted
attention as a source of unconventional magnetic, transport, and optical phenomena …

Meron, skyrmion, and vortex crystals in centrosymmetric tetragonal magnets

Z Wang, Y Su, SZ Lin, CD Batista - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The recent experimental confirmation of a transformation between meron and skyrmion
topological spin textures in the chiral magnet Co 8 Zn 9 Mn 3 [S.-Z. Lin et al., Phys. Rev. B …