Real-space imaging of confined magnetic skyrmion tubes

Magnetic skyrmions are thought to possess a tube-like structure in three dimensions, but this has not been directly observed in experiment. Here, Birch et al. report real-space imaging of skyrmion tubes in a lamella of FeGe.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: M. T. Birch, D. Cortés-Ortuño, L. A. Turnbull, M. N. Wilson, F. Groß, N. Träger, A. Laurenson, N. Bukin, S. H. Moody, M. Weigand, G. Schütz, H. Popescu, R. Fan, P. Steadman, J. A. T. Verezhak, G. Balakrishnan, J. C. Loudon, A. C. Twitchett-Harrison, O. Hovorka, H. Fangohr, F. Y. Ogrin, J. Gräfe, P. D. Hatton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15474-8