Abstract

I will discuss emergent topological magnetic textures, including skyrmions, merons, bimerons, and antibimerons, which form nanoscale chiral whirls in magnetic order. These textures are promising candidates for information carriers in next-generation electronic and spintronic devices because they can be efficiently driven at high velocities by current-induced spin torques. I will first focus on bimerons [1] and antibimerons [2] in ferromagnetic topological materials and discuss their spin-wave modes. I will then show that antiferromagnets can also host a rich variety of such textures, offering advantages such as terahertz dynamics, deflection-free motion [3], and improved size scaling due to the absence of stray fields. Finally, I will demonstrate that merons and bimerons can be generated at room temperature and reversibly moved by electrical pulses in both antiferromagnetic [4] and ferromagnetic systems [5].

References:

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[4] O. J. Amin, O. A. Tretiakov, et al. Nature Nano. 18, 849 (2023).
[5] J. Chen, X. Li, L. Shen, Y. Zhou, O. A. Tretiakov, et al., Phys. Rev B 112, 224420 (2025).