Although researchers have studied how groups of
skyrmions behave, little is known about their internal behaviors, Kuok said.
Once
skyrmions behave as desired, creating a racetrack memory with them is an obvious next step.
Not exact matches
One possible issue: A
skyrmion's swirling pattern makes it
behave like a rotating object.
Skyrmions are a type of «quasiparticle,» a disturbance within a material that
behaves like a single particle, despite being a collective of many individual particles.
The future of data storage is likely to be found in nanometer scale, stable magnetic whirls called
skyrmions, which
behave like particles in magnetic thin films.