Nature Communications (May 2022)

Freezing and thawing magnetic droplet solitons

  • Martina Ahlberg,
  • Sunjae Chung,
  • Sheng Jiang,
  • Andreas Frisk,
  • Maha Khademi,
  • Roman Khymyn,
  • Ahmad A. Awad,
  • Q. Tuan Le,
  • Hamid Mazraati,
  • Majid Mohseni,
  • Markus Weigand,
  • Iuliia Bykova,
  • Felix Groß,
  • Eberhard Goering,
  • Gisela Schütz,
  • Joachim Gräfe,
  • Johan Åkerman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30055-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Magnetic droplets are a type of non-topological magnetic soliton, which are stabilised and sustained by spin-transfer torques for instance. Without this, they would collapse. Here Ahlberg et al show that by decreasing the applied magnetic field, droplets can be frozen, forming a static nanobubble