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- Introduces the physics and chemistry of magnetic skyrmions
- Provides a comprehensive review of the latest experimental and theoretical work
- Focuses on both fundamentals and applications
- Covers formation mechanism, observation technique, and material design strategy, as well as skyrmions’ static and dynamical responses against various electromagnetic fields
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Recent progress in magnetic imaging techniques has enabled the observation of skyrmions in real space, as well as the analysis of their ordering manner and the details of their internal structure. In metallic systems, conduction electrons moving through the skyrmion spin texture gain a nontrivial quantum Berry phase, which provides topological force to the underlying spin texture and enables the current-induced manipulation of magnetic skyrmions. On the other hand, skyrmions in an insulator can induce electric polarization through relativistic spin-orbit interaction, paving the way for the control of skyrmions by an external electric field without loss of Joule heating. Because of its nanometric scale, particle nature, and electric controllability, skyrmions are considered as potential candidates for new information carriers in the next generation of spintronics devices.
Keywords
- Berry Phase
- Centrosymmetric Ferromagnets
- Chiral Magnets
- Conduction Electrons
- Magnetic Bubble
- Magnetoelectric Nature of Skyrmions
- Novel Information Carriers, Spintronics
- Skyrmion
- Skyrmion Spin Configuration Stabilization
- Skyrmion Spin Texture
- Skyrmions Applications
- Skyrmions Fundamentals
- Skyrmions Stabilization
- Skyrmions and Electric Currents
- Skyrmions and Electric Field
- Skyrmions and Magnetic Materials
- Skyrmions in Insulators
- Skyrmions, Electric Current Manipulation
- Spintronic Devices
- Topological Hall Effect
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Applid Physics, University of Tokyo, Wako, Japan
Shinichiro Seki
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College of Science and Enginnering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, Japan
Masahito Mochizuki
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Skyrmions in Magnetic Materials
Authors: Shinichiro Seki, Masahito Mochizuki
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24651-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24649-9Published: 26 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24651-2Published: 19 November 2015
Series ISSN: 2191-5423
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5431
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 69
Number of Illustrations: 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics, Optical and Electronic Materials, Nanochemistry, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials, Particle and Nuclear Physics