Spintronics Breakthrough: Unlocking the Power of Radial Vortices
A team at HZB has investigated a new, simple method at BESSY II that can be used to create stable radial magnetic vortices in magnetic…
Skyrmions News
Skyrmions are tiny, topologically stable structures that are formed in certain magnetic materials. These swirling, vortex-like configurations of spins represent a local twist in the material’s magnetic order and are characterized by their stability and unique magnetic properties. Discovered theoretically by Tony Skyrme in the 1960s in the context of particle physics, skyrmions have gained significant attention in condensed matter physics due to their potential applications in spintronic devices, where electronic charges and spins are manipulated for advanced computing and memory storage solutions. They are particularly promising for their stability and efficiency at room temperature, which could lead to low-power, high-density data storage devices. Skyrmions can be created, manipulated, and annihilated using small amounts of current, making them highly attractive for practical technological applications.
Turbocharged Skyrmions: Accelerating Toward the Future of Computing
Scientists discovered that skyrmions, potential future bits for computer memory, can now move at speeds up to 900 m/s, a significant increase facilitated by the…
Quantum Entanglement’s New Dimension: A Topological Breakthrough
This experimental milestone allows for the preservation of quantum information even when entanglement is fragile. For the first time, researchers from the Structured Light Laboratory…
Hopfions Unveiled: The 3D Spin Structures Set to Spin Up Future Tech
Hopfions, magnetic spin structures predicted decades ago, have become a hot and challenging research topic in recent years. In a study published today in Nature,…
Whirlwind Tech: The Future of Energy-Efficient Spintronics Computing
Researchers in Germany and Japan have been able to increase the diffusion of magnetic whirls, so-called skyrmions, by a factor of ten. In today’s world,…
Photonic Hopfions: Light Shaped as a Smoke Ring Behaves Like a Particle
Researchers report a new, highly unusual, structured-light family of 3D topological solitons, the photonic hopfions, where the topological textures and topological numbers can be freely…
Researchers Create Strange Magnetic Particles With Laser Light – May Revolutionize Quantum Computers
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new way to create nano-sized magnetic particles using ultrafast laser light pulses. The revelation could pave…
Skyrmions – Tiny Magnetic Swirls – Used To Generate True Random Numbers
Skyrmions, tiny magnetic anomalies that arise in two-dimensional materials, can be used to generate true random numbers useful in cryptography and probabilistic computing. Whether for…
Emergent Matter Scientists Successfully Manipulate a Single Skyrmion at Room Temperature
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and collaborators have shown that they can manipulate single skyrmions—tiny magnetic vortices that could be used…
Elusive Fundamental Particles – Called Skyrmions – Modeled in Beam of Light
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have succeeded in creating an experimental model of an elusive kind of fundamental particle called a skyrmion in a…
A New Family of Electromagnetic Pulses: Skyrmions Can Fly!
Topology in optics and photonics has been a hot topic since 1890 where singularities in electromagnetic fields have been considered. The recent award of the…
Scientists Discover New Physical Phenomenon: Complex Braided Structures Made of Skyrmions
A team of scientists from Germany, Sweden, and China has discovered a new physical phenomenon: complex braided structures made of tiny magnetic vortices known as…
Skyrmions – Tiny Magnetic Whirlpools – Have a Lot in Common With High-Temperature Superconductors
Spawned by the spins of electrons in magnetic materials, these tiny whirlpools behave like independent particles and could be the future of computing. Experiments with…
New Exotic Magnetic Quasiparticle: “Skyrmion Bundle” Joins Topological Zoo
In a study recently published in Nature Nanotechnology, a research group led by Prof. Du Haifeng and Dr. Tang Jin from High Magnetic Field Laboratory,…
New Type of Topological Defect Observed in Chiral Magnets for the First Time
“Topological defects” are formed when the symmetry of a magnetic material is disrupted. Domain walls (DWs) are a type of topological defect that separates regions…
Next-Gen Information Technology: The Spintronics Revolution Could Be Just a Hopfion Away
Pioneering study co-led by Berkeley Lab has significance for next-gen information technologies. A decade ago, the discovery of quasiparticles called magnetic skyrmions provided important new…
Search for Strange Skyrmion Phenomenon Fails but Finds Stranger Magnetic Beaded Necklace
Physicists on the hunt for a rarely seen magnetic spin texture have discovered another object that bears its hallmarks, hidden in the structure of ultra-thin…
Second Order Optical Merons, or Light Pretending to Be a Ferromagnet
Scientists have demonstrated how to structure light such that its polarization behaves like a collective of spins in a ferromagnet forming half-skyrmions (also known as…