Current-induced viscoelastic topological unwinding of metastable skyrmion strings

Understanding the dynamics of the skyrmion string lattice is the prerequisite for its potential application as next-generation information carriers. Here, the authors explore the topological unwinding of skyrmion string lattice under the application of current pulses.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fumitaka Kagawa, Hiroshi Oike, Wataru Koshibae, Akiko Kikkawa, Yoshihiro Okamura, Yasujiro Taguchi, Naoto Nagaosa, Yoshinori Tokura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01353-2