Not exact matches
Like antiskyrmions, antiferromagnetic
skyrmions wouldn't zip off at an angle to an electric current,
so they should be easier to control.
However, until very recently, the only materials known to exhibit
skyrmions did
so at extremely low temperatures.
«We have also shown that the dynamic
skyrmions can generate much stronger output in spintronic oscillators,
so the potential use for this new phenomenon is great,» he says.
Hall and colleagues created their
skyrmion in a state of matter called a Bose - Einstein condensate, composed of atoms cooled to a temperature
so low that they all take on the same quantum state and begin acting as if they are one unified entity (SN: 10/13/01, p. 230).
The team showed that a magnetic
skyrmion can be created under a nanocontact, in which a spin - polarized current is injected into the magnetic thin film providing a
so - called spin torque to its magnetic moments.
«The measurements show that the
skyrmions move on a very complex trajectory, a
so - called hypo - cycloid,» says Krüger.
Magnetic vortices —
so - called
skyrmions — were predicted theoretically more than 25 years ago, but it has only been possible to observe them experimentally in magnetic materials in recent years.