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,…
Skyrmions News
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
Researcher 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…
Magnetism Does the Twist: Skyrmions 10,000 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair Could Advance High-Density Data Storage
Scientists discovered a strategy for layering dissimilar crystals with atomic precision to control the size of resulting magnetic quasi-particles called skyrmions. This approach could advance…
Orbitronics Breakthrough: Scientists Break the Link Between a Quantum Material’s Spin and Orbital States
The advance opens a path toward a new generation of logic and memory devices that could be 10,000 times faster than today’s. In designing electronic…
Skyrmions: Nanoscale Magnetic ‘Whirls’ for Low-Energy Computer Circuits
University of New South Wales (UNSW) material scientists have shed new light on a promising new way to store and process information in computers and…
“Skyrmions” Could Provide a Way to Bypass the Limits to Moore’s Law
Researchers from MIT show that a newly discovered kind of magnetic behavior holds great promise as a way of storing data — one that could…
