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20192026
most citedMagnetic skyrmions, chiral kinks and holomorphic functions

99 citations · 359 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Stability and current-driven dynamics of mixed-topology bimeron clusters

Philippe Heymes, Thomas L. Schmidt, Vladyslav M. Kuchkin

In this work, we study bimerons (in-plane skyrmions) and their clusters composed of states with mixed topological indices. These clusters provide flexibility in controlling the sky…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Three-Dimensional Shankar Skyrmions in Frustrated Antiferromagnets

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Ricardo Rama-Eiroa, Carlos Saji +2

We formulate a continuum theory for three-dimensional (3D) Shankar skyrmions in frustrated chiral antiferromagnets (AFs) and derive the conditions for metastable finite-size $π_3(S…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Quantum Hopfion rings in the cluster mean-field approximation

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Thomas L. Schmidt

We study the quantum properties of two- and three-dimensional spin textures -- -skyrmions and hopfion rings -- within the cluster mean-field approximation (CMFA). By combining…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Magnetic skyrmion lattice disclinations in pentagon- and heptagon-shaped FeGe crystals

Thibaud Denneulin, Nikolai S. Kiselev, Vladyslav M. Kuchkin +1

Magnetic skyrmions in chiral magnets typically arrange into hexagonal lattices, with their structural order influenced by factors such as temperature, external magnetic fields and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Regularized Micromagnetic Theory for Bloch Points

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Andreas Haller, Andreas Michels +2

Magnetic singularities known as Bloch points (BPs) present a fundamental challenge for micromagnetic theory, which is based on the assumption of a fixed magnetization vector length…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Spin-disorder-induced angular anisotropy in polarized magnetic neutron scattering

I. Titov, M. Bersweiler, M. P. Adams +14

We experimentally report a hitherto unseen angular anisotropy in the polarized small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) cross section of a magnetically strongly inhomogeneous material…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Linked skyrmions in shifted magnetic bilayer

Sumit Ghosh, Hiroshi Katsumoto, Gustav Bihlmayer +6

Magnetic solitons have recently attracted significant attention due to their intricate physical properties and potential applications in information processing. The majority of the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Co-existing magnetization reversal mechanisms in shakti spin ice systems

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Unnar B. Arnalds, Hannes Jónsson +1

The switching mechanisms in artificial spin ice systems are investigated with focus on shakti and modified shakti lattices. Minimum energy paths are calculated using the geodesic n…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Skyrmionic Schrödinger cat states in monoaxial chiral magnets

Stefan Liscak, Andreas Haller, Andreas Michels +2

We study the low-energy excitation spectra of a spin-1/2 quantum Heisenberg model with a monoaxial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Using the density matrix renormalization group…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 8 cited

Stability and Nucleation of Dipole Strings in Uniaxial Chiral Magnets

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Nikolai S. Kiselev, Andreas Haller +3

We report on the stability of the magnetic dipole string (DS), a three-dimensional magnetic texture formed by two coupled Bloch points with opposite topological charges, separated…

cs.LG2025★ 23 cited

Humanity's Last Exam

Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han +1168

Benchmarks are important tools for tracking the rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) capabilities. However, benchmarks are not keeping pace in difficulty: LLMs now achi…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 4 cited

Symmetry-Governed Dynamics of Magnetic Skyrmions Under Field Pulses

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Bruno Barton-Singer, Pavel F. Bessarab +1

Topological magnetic solitons, such as skyrmions, exhibit intriguing particle-like properties that make them attractive for fundamental research and practical applications. While m…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 8 cited

Quantum and classical magnetic Bloch points

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Andreas Haller, Štefan Liščák +5

A Bloch point represents a three-dimensional hedgehog singularity of a magnetic vector field in which the magnetization vanishes. However, standard micromagnetic theory, developed…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 5 cited

Skyrmions and antiskyrmions in monoaxial chiral magnets

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Nikolai S. Kiselev

We show that competition between local interactions in monoaxial chiral magnets provides the stability of two-dimensional (2D) solitons with identical energies but opposite topolog…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 14 cited

Heliknoton in a film of cubic chiral magnet

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Nikolai S. Kiselev, Filipp N. Rybakov +3

Cubic chiral magnets exhibit a remarkable diversity of two-dimensional topological magnetic textures, including skyrmions. However, the experimental confirmation of topological sta…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 15 cited

Tailed skyrmions -- an obscure branch of magnetic solitons

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Nikolai S. Kiselev, Pavel F. Bessarab

We report tailed skyrmions -- a new class of stable soliton solutions of the 2D chiral magnet model. Tailed skyrmions have elongated shapes and emerge in a narrow range of fields n…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 11 cited

Chiral standing spin waves in skyrmion lattice

Andrii S. Savchenko, Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Filipp N. Rybakov +2

This work studies the resonance excitations of the three-dimensional skyrmions lattice in the finite thickness plate of an isotropic chiral magnet using spin dynamics simulations.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 15 cited

Homotopy transitions and 3D magnetic solitons

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Nikolai S. Kiselev

This work provides a concept for three-dimensional magnetic solitons based on mapping the homotopy path between various two-dimensional solutions onto the third spatial axis. The r…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 58 cited

Magnetic particle-antiparticle creation and annihilation

Fengshan Zheng, Nikolai S. Kiselev, Luyan Yang +4

A fundamental property of particles and antiparticles, such as electrons and positrons, is their ability to annihilate one another. Similar behavior is predicted for magnetic solit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 8 cited

Thermal generation of droplet soliton in chiral magnet

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Pavel F. Bessarab, Nikolai S. Kiselev

Controlled creation of localized magnetic textures beyond conventional -skyrmions is an important problem in the field of magnetism. Here by means of spin dynamics simulations,…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 39 cited

Geometry and Symmetry in Skyrmion Dynamics

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Ksenia Chichay, Bruno Barton-Singer +4

The uniform motion of chiral magnetic skyrmions induced by a spin-transfer torque displays an intricate dependence on the skyrmions' topological charge and shape. We reveal surpris…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 99 cited

Magnetic skyrmions, chiral kinks and holomorphic functions

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Bruno Barton-Singer, Filipp N. Rybakov +3

We present a novel approach to understanding the extraordinary diversity of magnetic skyrmion solutions. Our approach combines a new classification scheme with efficient analytical…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 47 cited

Turning chiral skyrmion inside out

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Nikolai S. Kiselev

The stability of two-dimensional chiral skyrmions in a tilted magnetic field is studied. It is shown that by changing the direction of the field and its magnitude, one can continuo…