Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Current-induced viscoelastic topological unwinding of metastable skyrmion strings

  • Fumitaka Kagawa,
  • Hiroshi Oike,
  • Wataru Koshibae,
  • Akiko Kikkawa,
  • Yoshihiro Okamura,
  • Yasujiro Taguchi,
  • Naoto Nagaosa,
  • Yoshinori Tokura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01353-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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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.