By forcing crystal structures to compete, scientists uncovered a new way to make magnetism twist. Florida State University ...

Magnetic swirls called skyrmions have gotten a new twist. Scientists have created a new version of the atomic whirlpools, in which the tiny magnetic fields of individual atoms in a material arrange ...

Small in-plane magnetic fields switch skyrmion chirality and improve lattice order in a two-dimensional magnet, pointing to low-energy control of spin textures for future computing devices. (Nanowerk ...

In a study recently published in Nature Nanotechnology, a research group led by Prof. Du Haifeng and Dr. Tang Jin from High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), ...

(Nanowerk News) Matter behaves differently when it's tiny. At the nanoscale, electric current cuts through mountains of particles, spinning them into vortexes that can be used intentionally in quantum ...

Schematic illustration showing how nanoscale magnetic skyrmions flow through an H-shaped junction to perform logic operations. The device demonstrates fluid-like collective behavior of skyrmions in ...

Skyrmions are small magnetic vortices that occur in an astonishingly wide range of materials and they were first discovered about a decade ago. They can be imagined as 2D knots in which the magnetic ...

For the first time a team of researchers have discovered two different phases of magnetic skyrmions in a single material. Physicists can now better study and understand the properties of these ...

Researchers have, for the first time, successfully demonstrated a formation and current-induced motion of synthetic antiferromagnetic magnetic skyrmions. The established findings are expected to pave ...

There are ghostly shapes hidden in magnetic fields. They're not made of stuff in the way a lightning bolt or a beam of light is. A lighting bolt carries a fairly defined group of electrons from the ...