Perspective: Magnetic skyrmions—Overview of recent progress in an active research field

Direct writing of room temperature and zero field skyrmion lattices by a scanning local magnetic field

(2018) Senfu Zhang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Stability and phase transition of skyrmion crystals generated by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

(2018) Sahbi El Hog et al.   JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS

Nonlinear gyrotropic motion of skyrmion in a magnetic nanodisk

(2018) Yi-fu Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS

Size and shape of skyrmions for variable Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction and uniaxial anisotropy

(2018) Aroop Kumar Behera et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Room-Temperature Skyrmions in an Antiferromagnet-Based Heterostructure

(2018) Guoqiang Yu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Reconfigurable Skyrmion Logic Gates

(2018) Shijiang Luo et al.   NANO LETTERS

Stabilizing spin spirals and isolated skyrmions at low magnetic field exploiting vanishing magnetic anisotropy

(2018) Marie Hervé et al.   Nature Communications

Fast current-driven domain walls and small skyrmions in a compensated ferrimagnet

(2018) Lucas Caretta et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Discrete Hall resistivity contribution from Néel skyrmions in multilayer nanodiscs

(2018) Katharina Zeissler et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Current-Induced Skyrmion Generation through Morphological Thermal Transitions in Chiral Ferromagnetic Heterostructures

(2018) Ivan Lemesh et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Creation of a thermally assisted skyrmion lattice in Pt/Co/Ta multilayer films

(2018) Senfu Zhang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Resonate and fire neuron with fixed magnetic skyrmions

(2018) Md. Ali Azam et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

A repulsive skyrmion chain as a guiding track for a racetrack memory

(2018) D. Suess et al.   AIP Advances

Magnetic skyrmion low frequency dynamics in thin circular dots

(2017) K.Y. Guslienko et al.   JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS

Magnetic skyrmion-based artificial neuron device

(2017) Sai Li et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Tunable room-temperature magnetic skyrmions in Ir/Fe/Co/Pt multilayers

(2017) Anjan Soumyanarayanan et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Manipulating and trapping skyrmions by magnetic field gradients

(2017) Chengjie Wang et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Nanosecond X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy on Magnetic Skyrmions

(2017) M. H. Seaberg et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Out-of-plane chiral domain wall spin-structures in ultrathin in-plane magnets

(2017) Gong Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Spin-orbit torque-driven skyrmion dynamics revealed by time-resolved X-ray microscopy

(2017) Seonghoon Woo et al.   Nature Communications

Efficient skyrmion transport mediated by a voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy gradient

(2017) Xuan Wang et al.   Nanoscale

Skyrmion core size dependence as a function of the perpendicular anisotropy and radius in magnetic nanodots

(2016) M.A. Castro et al.   JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS

Reproducible formation of single magnetic bubbles in an array of patterned dots

(2016) T Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Magnetic skyrmions: from fundamental to applications

(2016) Giovanni Finocchio et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Room-Temperature Skyrmion Shift Device for Memory Application

(2016) Guoqiang Yu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Particles or waves

(2016) Achim Rosch   NATURE MATERIALS

Skyrmion-Electronics: An Overview and Outlook

(2016) Wang Kang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

Theory of antiskyrmions in magnets

(2016) Wataru Koshibae et al.   Nature Communications

Transition to and from the skyrmion lattice phase by electric fields in a magnetoelectric compound

(2016) Y. Okamura et al.   Nature Communications

Skyrmion Creation and Manipulation by Nano-Second Current Pulses

(2016) H. Y. Yuan et al.   Scientific Reports

Voltage controlled core reversal of fixed magnetic skyrmions without a magnetic field

(2016) Dhritiman Bhattacharya et al.   Scientific Reports

Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions in metallic films and multilayers: a new twist for spintronics

(2016) Roland Wiesendanger   Nature Reviews Materials

Ternary superlattice boosting interface-stabilized magnetic chirality

(2015) Gong Chen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Critical Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction energy density for the skyrmion states formation in ultrathin ferromagnetic layer

(2015) Chun-Yeol You et al.   CURRENT APPLIED PHYSICS

Skyrmion-Based Dynamic Magnonic Crystal

(2015) Fusheng Ma et al.   NANO LETTERS

All-magnetic control of skyrmions in nanowires by a spin wave

(2015) Xichao Zhang et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Universal helimagnon and skyrmion excitations in metallic, semiconducting and insulating chiral magnets

(2015) T. Schwarze et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Large anisotropic deformation of skyrmions in strained crystal

(2015) K. Shibata et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Domain-wall velocities of up to 750 m s−1 driven by exchange-coupling torque in synthetic antiferromagnets

(2015) See-Hun Yang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Accessing the fundamentals of magnetotransport in metals with terahertz probes

(2015) Zuanming Jin et al.   Nature Physics

Dynamics and inertia of skyrmionic spin structures

(2015) Felix Büttner et al.   Nature Physics

Current-induced magnetic skyrmions oscillator

(2015) Senfu Zhang et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Variation of skyrmion forms and their stability in MnSi thin plates

(2015) Xiuzhen Yu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Skyrmion dynamics in chiral ferromagnets

(2015) Stavros Komineas et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Stability of single skyrmionic bits

(2015) J. Hagemeister et al.   Nature Communications

Spin-torque-induced dynamics at fine-split frequencies in nano-oscillators with two stacked vortices

(2015) V. Sluka et al.   Nature Communications

Uniaxial stress control of skyrmion phase

(2015) Y. Nii et al.   Nature Communications

Guided current-induced skyrmion motion in 1D potential well

(2015) I. Purnama et al.   Scientific Reports

Ultrafast optical excitation of magnetic skyrmions

(2015) N. Ogawa et al.   Scientific Reports

Interface-induced chiral domain walls, spin spirals and skyrmions revealed by spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy

(2014) Kirsten von Bergmann et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Colossal Spin Transfer Torque Effect on Skyrmion along the Edge

(2014) Junichi Iwasaki et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nature of soliton interaction in fiber lasers with continuous external optical injection

(2014) Andrey Komarov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Thermal Stability of an Interface-Stabilized Skyrmion Lattice

(2014) A. Sonntag et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Role of Entropy in Domain Wall Motion in Thermal Gradients

(2014) F. Schlickeiser et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Creation of skyrmions and antiskyrmions by local heating

(2014) Wataru Koshibae et al.   Nature Communications

Tailoring the topology of an artificial magnetic skyrmion

(2014) J. Li et al.   Nature Communications

Moving with the current

(2013) Achim Rosch   Nature Nanotechnology

Topological properties and dynamics of magnetic skyrmions

(2013) Naoto Nagaosa et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Skyrmion confinement in ultrathin film nanostructures in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

(2013) S. Rohart et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Direct Imaging of Thermally Driven Domain Wall Motion in Magnetic Insulators

(2013) Wanjun Jiang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Laser-Induced Magnetic Nanostructures with Tunable Topological Properties

(2013) M. Finazzi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Spin Torque-Generated Magnetic Droplet Solitons

(2013) S. M. Mohseni et al.   SCIENCE

Unwinding of a Skyrmion Lattice by Magnetic Monopoles

(2013) P. Milde et al.   SCIENCE

Microwave magnetoelectric effect via skyrmion resonance modes in a helimagnetic multiferroic

(2013) Y. Okamura et al.   Nature Communications

Extended Skyrmion Phase in EpitaxialFeGe(111)Thin Films

(2012) S. X. Huang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Observation of Skyrmions in a Multiferroic Material

(2012) S. Seki et al.   SCIENCE

Symmetry breaking in the formation of magnetic vortex states in a permalloy nanodisk

(2012) Mi-Young Im et al.   Nature Communications

Current-induced domain wall motion in nanoscale ferromagnetic elements

(2011) O. Boulle et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS

Compact merons and skyrmions in thin chiral magnetic films

(2011) Motohiko Ezawa   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Domain Wall Motion by the Magnonic Spin Seebeck Effect

(2011) D. Hinzke et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Dynamic Notch Pinning Fields for Domain Walls in Ferromagnetic Nanowires

(2010) Andrew Kunz et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS

Skyrmion lattices in metallic and semiconducting B20 transition metal compounds

(2010) C Pfleiderer et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Near room-temperature formation of a skyrmion crystal in thin-films of the helimagnet FeGe

(2010) X. Z. Yu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Probing activation energy barrier distribution for reversal of strongly exchange-coupled magnetic multilayer thin films

(2009) O. Ozatay et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Phase-locking of magnetic vortices mediated by antivortices

(2009) A. Ruotolo et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Dynamics and switching processes for magnetic bubbles in nanoelements

(2009) C. Moutafis et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Tailoring laser-induced domain wall pinning

(2009) P. Möhrke et al.   SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS

Head-to-head domain walls in magnetic nanostructures

(2008) M Kläui   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER