An artificial skyrmion platform with robust tunability in synthetic antiferromagnetic multilayers by Li,Yong, Feng, Qiyuan, Li, Sihua, Huang, Ke, Ma, Mangyuan, Gan, Weiliang, Zhou, Haibiao, Jin, Xiangjun, Wang, Renshaw Xiao, Lu, Yalin, Lew, Wen Siang, Lu, Qingyou, Ma, Fusheng

“…Magnetic skyrmions are topologically nontrivial spin structures, and their existence in ferromagnetically coupled multilayers has been widely reported with a disordered arrangement. …”
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Geometrically tailored skyrmions at zero magnetic field in multilayered nanostructures by Ho, Pin, Goolaup, S., Soumyanarayanan, Anjan, Panagopoulos, Christos, Tan, Anthony K. C., Huang, L. S., Gonzalez Oyarce, A. L., Raju, Masapogu

“…Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures recently observed at room temperature in multilayer films. …”
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Robust perpendicular skyrmions and their surface-confinement by Zhang, S, Burn, D, Jaouen, N, Chauleau, J, Haghighirad, A, Wang, Y, Wang, W, Van Der Laan, G, Hesjedal, T

“…Magnetic skyrmions are two-dimensional magnetization swirls that stack in the form of tubes in the third dimension, and which are proposed as prospective information carriers for nonvolatile memory devices due to their unique topological properties. …”

Skyrmions in anisotropic magnetic fields: strain and defect driven dynamics by Brearton, R, Olszewski, MW, Zhang, S, Eskildsen, MR, Reichardt, C, Reichardt, CJO, Van Der Laan, G, Hesjedal, T

“…Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like, topologically protected magnetization entities that are promising candidates for information carriers in racetrack-memory schemes. …”

Direct observation of twisted surface Skyrmions in bulk crystals by Zhang, S, van der Laan, G, Wang, W, Haghighirad, A, Hesjedal, T

“…Magnetic skyrmions in noncentrosymmetric helimagnets with Dn symmetry are Bloch-type magnetization swirls with a helicity angle of ±90∘. …”

Multidomain Skyrmion Lattice State in Cu₂OSeO₃ by Zhang, S, Bauer, A, Burn, D, Milde, P, Neuber, E, Eng, L, Berger, H, Pfleiderer, C, van der Laan, G, Hesjedal, T

“…Magnetic skyrmions in chiral magnets are nanoscale, topologically-protected magnetization swirls that are promising candidates for spintronics memory carriers. …”

Demonstration of controlled skyrmion injection across a thickness step by Littlehales, MT, Moody, SH, Turnbull, LA, Huddart, BM, Brereton, BA, Balakrishnan, G, Fan, R, Steadman, P, Hatton, PD, Wilson, MN

“…Spintronic devices incorporating magnetic skyrmions have attracted significant interest recently. …”

Spontaneous Small Biskyrmions in a Centrosymmetric Rare-Earth Kagome Ferrimagnet by Shulan Zuo, Kaiming Qiao, Zhan Wang, Ying Zhang, Chengbao Jiang, Baogen Shen

“…Abstract Magnetic skyrmions with nontrivial topologies have great potential to serve as memory cells in novel spintronic devices. …”
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Reversible to irreversible transitions for ac driven skyrmions on periodic substrates by J C Bellizotti Souza, N P Vizarim, C J O Reichhardt, C Reichhardt, P A Venegas

“…Using atomistic simulations, we investigate the dynamical behavior of magnetic skyrmions in dimer and trimer molecular crystal arrangements, as well as bipartite lattices at 3/2 and 5/2 fillings, under ac driving over a square array of anisotropy defects. …”
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Enhancement of zero-field skyrmion density in [Pt/Co/Fe/Ir]2 multilayers at room temperature by the first-order reversal curve by Ma, Mangyuan, Ang, Calvin Ching Ian, Li, Yong, Pan, Zizhao, Gan, Weiliang, Lew, Wen Siang, Ma, Fusheng

“…Magnetic skyrmions are novel topological spin textures on the nanoscale, and significant efforts have been taken to improve their zero-field density at room temperature (RT). …”
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Skyrmion-driven topological Hall effect in a Shastry-Sutherland magnet by Swain, N., Shahzad, M., Paradezhenko, G. V., Pervishko, A. A., Yudin, D., Sengupta, Pinaki

“…Using an $sd$ exchange model, we show here that metallic Shastry-Sutherland magnets can exhibit a topological Hall effect driven by magnetic skyrmions under realistic conditions. The magnetic properties are modeled with competing symmetric Heisenberg and asymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange interactions, while a coupling between the spins of the itinerant electrons and the localized moments describes the magnetotransport behavior. …”
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Deriving the skyrmion Hall angle from skyrmion lattice dynamics by Brearton, R, Turnbull, LA, Verezhak, JAT, Balakrishnan, G, Hatton, PD, van der Laan, G, Hesjedal, T

“…Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial, swirling magnetization textures that form lattices in helimagnetic materials. …”

Periodically modulated skyrmion strings in Cu2OSeO3 by Burn, DM, Brearton, R, Ran, KJ, Zhang, S, van der Laan, G, Hesjedal, T

“…Magnetic skyrmions are vortex-like spin textures, which are usually treated as two-dimensional objects. …”

Current-induced motion of nanoscale magnetic torons over the wide range of the Hall angle by Kotaro Shimizu, Shun Okumura, Yasuyuki Kato, Yukitoshi Motome

“…While two-dimensional magnetic skyrmions have garnered significant interest, their practical use is hindered by the skyrmion Hall effect—a transverse motion to the current direction that occurs as a counteraction to the topological Hall effect of electrons arising from the Berry phase effect. …”
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Electric-field control of magnetic anisotropies: Applications to Kitaev spin liquids and topological spin textures by Shunsuke C. Furuya, Masahiro Sato

“…We also investigate the interatomic Rashba spin-orbit coupling and its effects on topological spin textures. dc electric fields turn out to create and annihilate magnetic skyrmions, hedgehogs, and chiral solitons. We propose several methods of creating topological spin textures with external electromagnetic fields. …”
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Kibble-Zurek scenario and coarsening across nonequilibrium phase transitions in driven vortices and skyrmions by C. Reichhardt, C. J. O. Reichhardt

“…We investigate the topological defect populations for superconducting vortices and magnetic skyrmions on random pinning substrates under driving amplitudes that are swept at different rates or suddenly quenched. …”
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High-temperature non-centrosymmetric magnets for skyrmionics by Kosuke Karube, Yasujiro Taguchi

“…Such topological spin textures as magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions have attracted significant interest in recent years owing to their rich variety of underlying physics and potential applications in next-generation magnetic devices. …”
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Realizing unipolar and bipolar intrinsic skyrmions in MXenes from high-fidelity first-principles calculations by Arnab Kabiraj, Santanu Mahapatra

“…Abstract Magnetic skyrmions, which are topologically protected tiny spin textures, have emerged as information carriers in energy-efficient logic and memory devices. …”
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Heat current-driven topological spin texture transformations and helical q-vector switching by Fehmi Sami Yasin, Jan Masell, Kosuke Karube, Daisuke Shindo, Yasujiro Taguchi, Yoshinori Tokura, Xiuzhen Yu

“…Abstract The use of magnetic states in memory devices has a history dating back decades, and the experimental discovery of magnetic skyrmions and subsequent demonstrations of their control via magnetic fields, heat, and electric/thermal currents have ushered in a new era for spintronics research and development. …”
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Emergence and transformation of polar skyrmion lattices via flexoelectricity by Jianhua Ren, Linjie Liu, Fei Sun, Qian He, Mengjun Wu, Weijin Chen, Yue Zheng

“…Abstract As analogies to magnetic skyrmions, polar skyrmions in ferroelectric superlattices and multilayers have garnered widespread attention for their non-trivial topology and novel properties like negative capacitance and nonlinear optical effect. …”
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