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ArticleNano letters2023

Chiral Skyrmions Interacting with Chiral Flowers.

Xichao Zhang, Jing Xia, Oleg A Tretiakov, Motohiko Ezawa, Guoping Zhao, Yan Zhou, Xiaoxi Liu, Masahito Mochizuki

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Article in Nano letters, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors.

Xichao ZhangDepartment of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9656-9696
Jing XiaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shinshu University, 4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano 380-8553, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1009-3074
Oleg A TretiakovSchool of Physics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7283-6884
Motohiko EzawaDepartment of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Guoping ZhaoCollege of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610068, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3327-9445
Yan ZhouSchool of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518172, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5641-9191
Xiaoxi LiuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shinshu University, 4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano 380-8553, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5917-5495
Masahito MochizukiDepartment of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The chiral nature of active matter plays an important role in the dynamics of active matter interacting with chiral structures. Skyrmions are chiral objects, and their interactions with chiral nanostructures can lead to intriguing phenomena. Here, we explore the random-walk dynamics of a thermally activated chiral skyrmion interacting with a chiral flower-like obstacle in a ferromagnetic layer, which could create topology-dependent outcomes. It is a spontaneous mesoscopic order-from-disorder phenomenon driven by the thermal fluctuations and topological nature of skyrmions that exists only in ferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic systems. The interactions between the skyrmions and chiral flowers at finite temperatures can be utilized to control the skyrmion position and distribution without applying any external driving force or temperature gradient. The phenomenon that thermally activated skyrmions are dynamically coupled to chiral flowers may provide a new way to design topological sorting devices.

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chiral flowerchiralitySkyrmionspintronicstopological sortingtopological spin texture

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PMCPMC10755743

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