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most citedSkyrmion-electronics: Writing, deleting, reading and processing magnetic skyrmions toward spintronic applications

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cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 7 cited

Nanofluidic logic based on chiral skyrmion flows

Xichao Zhang, Jing Xia, Yan Zhou +4

Particle-like chiral magnetic skyrmions can flow in nanotracks and behave like chiral fluids. Using interacting flows to perform logical operations is an important topic in microfl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 5 cited

Transformation of a cellular skyrmion to polyomino-like structures

Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang, Yan Zhou +3

Topological spin structures with transformable shapes may have potential implications on data storage and computation. Here, we demonstrate that a square cellular skyrmion on an ar…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 18 cited

Chiral Skyrmions Interacting with Chiral Flowers

Xichao Zhang, Jing Xia, Oleg A. Tretiakov +5

The chiral nature of active matter plays an important role in the dynamics of active matter interacting with chiral structures. Skyrmions are chiral objects, and their interactions…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 4 cited

Reversible magnetic domain reorientation induced by magnetic field pulses with fixed direction

Xichao Zhang, Jing Xia, Oleg A. Tretiakov +5

Nanoscale magnetic domains with controllable configurations could be used for classical and quantum applications, where the switching of magnetization configurations is an essentia…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 23 cited

Laminar and transiently disordered dynamics of a magnetic skyrmion pipe flow

Xichao Zhang, Jing Xia, Oleg A. Tretiakov +5

The world is full of fluids that flow. The fluid nature of flowing skyrmionic quasiparticles is of fundamental physical interest and plays an essential role in the transport of man…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 52 cited

Reversible Transformation between Isolated Skyrmions and Bimerons

Kentaro Ohara, Xichao Zhang, Yinling Chen +9

Skyrmions and bimerons are versatile topological spin textures that can be used as information bits for both classical and quantum computing. The transformation between isolated sk…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 19 cited

Bifurcation of a Topological Skyrmion String

Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang, Oleg A. Tretiakov +6

Manipulation of three-dimensional (3D) topological objects is of both fundamental interest and practical importance in many branches of physics. Here, we show by spin dynamics simu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 14 cited

Nonreciprocal dynamics of ferrimagnetic bimerons

Laichuan Shen, Jing Xia, Zehan Chen +8

Magnetic bimerons are topologically nontrivial spin textures in in-plane easy-axis magnets, which can be used as particle-like information carriers. Here, we report a theoretical s…

cond-mat.other2021

Dynamics of Magnetic Skyrmions under Temperature Gradients

Chaofan Gong, Yan Zhou, Guoping Zhao

We expand the Zhang-Li spin-transfer torque [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 127204 (2004)] to finite temperatures by the scattering amplitude. Considering various factors including the adiab…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 16 cited

Dynamic transformation between a skyrmion string and a bimeron string in a layered frustrated system

Xichao Zhang, Jing Xia, Oleg A. Tretiakov +6

Frustrated topological spin textures have unique properties that may enable novel spintronic applications, such as helicity-based information storage and computing. Here, we report…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 35 cited

Current-induced dynamics of skyrmion tubes in synthetic antiferromagnetic multilayers

Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang, Kai-Yu Mak +5

Topological spin textures can be found in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional nanostructures, which are of great importance to advanced spintronic applications. Here we repo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 6 cited

Signal detection based on the chaotic motion of an antiferromagnetic domain wall

Laichuan Shen, Jing Xia, Motohiko Ezawa +3

The antiferromagnetic domain wall dynamics is currently a hot topic in mesoscopic magnetic systems. In this work, it is found that, based on the Thiele approach, the motion of an a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 22 cited

A Frustrated Bimeronium: Static Structure and Dynamics

Xichao Zhang, Jing Xia, Motohiko Ezawa +5

We show a topological spin texture called "bimeronium" in magnets with in-plane magnetization. It is a topological counterpart of skyrmionium in perpendicularly magnetized magnets…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 43 cited

Current-driven skyrmionium in a frustrated magnetic system

Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang, Motohiko Ezawa +7

Magnetic skyrmionium can be used as a nanometer-scale non-volatile information carrier, which shows no skyrmion Hall effect due to its special structure carrying zero topological c…

physics.app-ph2020★ 57 cited

A spiking neuron constructed by the skyrmion-based spin torque nano-oscillator

Xue Liang, Xichao Zhang, Jing Xia +4

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like topological spin configurations, which can carry binary information and thus are promising building blocks for future spintronic devices. In th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 80 cited

Static and dynamic properties of bimerons in a frustrated ferromagnetic monolayer

Xichao Zhang, Jing Xia, Laichuan Shen +5

Magnetic bimeron is a topological counterpart of skyrmions in in-plane magnets, which can be used as a spintronic information carrier. We report the static properties of bimerons w…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 67 cited

Antiferromagnetic Skyrmion-Based Logic Gates Controlled by Electric Currents and Fields

Xue Liang, Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang +6

Antiferromagnets are promising materials for future spintronic applications due to their unique properties including zero stray fields, robustness versus external magnetic fields a…

physics.app-ph2019★ 411 cited

Skyrmion-electronics: Writing, deleting, reading and processing magnetic skyrmions toward spintronic applications

Xichao Zhang, Yan Zhou, Kyung Mee Song +7

The field of magnetic skyrmions has been actively investigated across a wide range of topics during the last decades. In this topical review, we mainly review and discuss key resul…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 126 cited

Current-Induced Dynamics and Chaos of Antiferromagnetic Bimerons

Laichuan Shen, Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang +5

A magnetic bimeron is a topologically non-trivial spin texture carrying an integer topological charge, which can be regarded as the counterpart of skyrmion in easy-plane magnets. T…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 149 cited

Spin torque nano-oscillators based on antiferromagnetic skyrmions

Laichuan Shen, Jing Xia, Guoping Zhao +5

Skyrmion-based spin torque nano-oscillators are potential next-generation microwave signal generators. However, ferromagnetic skyrmion-based spin torque nano-oscillators cannot rea…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 118 cited

Dynamics of the antiferromagnetic skyrmion induced by a magnetic anisotropy gradient

Laichuan Shen, Jing Xia, Guoping Zhao +5

The dynamics of antiferromagnets is a current hot topic in condensed matter physics and spintronics. However, the dynamics of insulating antiferromagnets cannot be excited by an el…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 19 cited

Dynamics of magnetic skyrmion clusters driven by spin-polarized current with a spatially varied polarization

Wenjing Jiang, Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang +7

Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates for future information technology. Here, we present a micromagnetic study of isolated skyrmions and skyrmion clusters in ferromagnetic n…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 14 cited

Magnetic Skyrmion Transport in a Nanotrack With Spatially Varying Damping and Non-adiabatic Torque

Xichao Zhang, Jing Xia, G. P. Zhao +2

Reliable transport of magnetic skyrmions is required for any future skyrmion-based information processing devices. Here we present a micromagnetic study of the in-plane current-dri…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 124 cited

All-magnetic control of skyrmions in nanowires by a spin wave

Xichao Zhang, Motohiko Ezawa, Dun Xiao +3

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected nanoscale objects, which are promising building blocks for novel magnetic and spintronic devices. Here, we investigate the dynamics o…