2016/01/01 by Andreas Bauer, A. Bauer, Christian Pfleiderer +1 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed matter physics #Ferromagnetism #Insulator (electricity) #Lattice (music) #Magnet #Magnetic Properties of Alloys #Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials #Magnetic field #Magnetic properties of thin films #Phase (matter) #Phase diagram #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Skyrmion #Theoretical physics #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25301-5_1
published as "Topological Structures in Ferroic Materials", Springer Series in Materials Science, Volume 228, pp 1-28 (2016) · 38 pages, 8 figures
openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · arxiv created 2016/03/29 · arxiv updated 2016/03/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin whirls that may not be transformed continuously into topologically trivial states such as ferromagnetic spin alignment. In recent years lattice structures composed of skyrmions have been discovered in certain bulk chiral magnets with non-centrosymmetric crystal structures. The magnetic phase diagrams of these materials share remarkable similarities despite great variations of the characteristic temperature, field, and length scales and regardless whether the underlying electronic state is that of a metal, semiconductor, or insulator.