Forming individual magnetic biskyrmions by merging two skyrmions in a centrosymmetric nanodisk

Magnetic skyrmion logic gates: conversion, duplication and merging of skyrmions

Magnetic skyrmions, which are topological particle-like excitations in ferromagnets, have attracted a lot of attention recently. Skyrmionics is an attempt to use magnetic skyrmions as information carriers in next generation spintronic devices. Proposals of manipulations and operations of skyrmions are highly desired. Here, we show that the conversion, duplication and merging of isolated skyrmio...

Topological Quasiparticles: Magnetic Skyrmions

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically distinct spin textures and can be stable with quasi-particle like behavior, such that they can be manipulated with very low electric currents. This makes them interesting for extreme low-power information technologies [1], where data is envisioned to be encoded in topological charges, instead of electronic charges as in conventional semiconducting devices. U...

Collective spin excitations of helices and magnetic skyrmions: review and perspectives of magnonics in non-centrosymmetric magnets

Magnetic materials hosting correlated electrons play an important role for information technology and signal processing. The currently used ferro-, ferriand antiferromagnetic materials provide microscopic moments (spins) that are mainly collinear. Recently more complex spin structures such as spin helices and cycloids have regained a lot of interest. The interest has been initiated by the disco...

Dynamically stabilized magnetic skyrmions

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin textures that manifest themselves as quasiparticles in ferromagnetic thin films or noncentrosymmetric bulk materials. So far attention has focused on skyrmions stabilized either by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) or by dipolar interaction, where in the latter case the excitations are known as bubble skyrmions. Here we demonstrate...

Generation of single skyrmions by picosecond magnetic field pulses