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20192025
most citedBrownian reservoir computing realized using geometrically confined skyrmions

129 citations · 400 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Real-Time Modeling of Skyrmion Dynamics in Arbitrary 2D Spatially Dependent Pinning Potential Landscapes

Simon M. Fröhlich, Tobias Sparmann, Maarten A. Brems +6

Non-flat energy landscapes leading to localized pinning of skyrmions pose an inherent and unavoidable challenge for studies of fundamental 2D spin structure dynamics as well as app…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Skyrmion Lattice Order Controlled by Confinement Geometry

Raphael Gruber, Jan Rothörl, Simon M. Fröhlich +8

Magnetic skyrmions forming two-dimensional (2D) lattices provide a versatile platform for investigating phase transitions predicted by Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young (KT…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Skyrmion Lattice Domain Formation in a Non-Flat Energy Landscape

Raphael Gruber, Jan Rothörl, Simon M. Fröhlich +9

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures with non-trivial topology that comprise two-dimensional quasi-particles and are promising information carriers for data storage and pr…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 12 cited

Realizing Quantitative Quasiparticle Modeling of Skyrmion Dynamics in Arbitrary Potentials

Maarten A. Brems, Tobias Sparmann, Simon M. Fröhlich +7

We demonstrate fully quantitative Thiele model simulations of magnetic skyrmion dynamics on previously unattainable experimentally relevant large length and time scales by ascertai…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 16 cited

Imaging Topological Defect Dynamics Mediating 2D Skyrmion Lattice Melting

Raphael Gruber, Jan Rothörl, Simon M. Fröhlich +8

Topological defects are the key feature mediating 2D phase transitions. However, both resolution and tunability have been lacking to access the dynamics of the transitions. With dy…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Skyrmion flow in periodically modulated channels

Klaus Raab, Maurice Schmitt, Maarten A. Brems +5

Magnetic skyrmions, topologically stabilized chiral magnetic textures with particle-like properties have so far primarily been studied statically. Here, we experimentally investiga…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Gesture recognition with Brownian reservoir computing using geometrically confined skyrmion dynamics

Grischa Beneke, Thomas Brian Winkler, Klaus Raab +6

Physical reservoir computing (RC) is a beyond von-Neumann computing paradigm that harnesses the dynamical properties of a complex physical system (reservoir) to process information…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Coarse-graining collective skyrmion dynamics in confined geometries

Thomas Brian Winkler, Jan Rothörl, Maarten A. Brems +2

Magnetic skyrmions are magnetic quasi-particles with enhanced stability and different manipulation mechanisms using external fields and currents making them promising candidates fo…

cs.ET2023★ 47 cited

Perspective on unconventional computing using magnetic skyrmions

Oscar Lee, Robin Msiska, Maarten A. Brems +3

Learning and pattern recognition inevitably requires memory of previous events, a feature that conventional CMOS hardware needs to artificially simulate. Dynamical systems naturall…

q-bio.BM2022★ 48 cited

AlphaFold predicts the most complex protein knot and composite protein knots

Maarten A. Brems, Robert Runkel, Todd O. Yeates +1

The computer artificial intelligence system AlphaFold has recently predicted previously unknown three-dimensional structures of thousands of proteins. Focusing on the subset with h…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 129 cited

Brownian reservoir computing realized using geometrically confined skyrmions

Klaus Raab, Maarten A. Brems, Grischa Beneke +4

Reservoir computing (RC) has been considered as one of the key computational principles beyond von-Neumann computing. Magnetic skyrmions, topological particle-like spin textures in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 66 cited

Skyrmion pinning energetics in thin film systems

Raphael Gruber, Jakub Zázvorka, Maarten A. Brems +7

A key issue for skyrmion dynamics and devices are pinning effects present in real systems. While posing a challenge for the realization of conventional skyrmionics devices, exploit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 2 cited

Constructing coarse-grained skyrmion potentials from experimental data with Iterative Boltzmann Inversion

Yuqing Ge, Jan Rothörl, Maarten A. Brems +5

In an effort to understand skyrmion behavior on a coarse-grained level, skyrmions are often described as 2D quasi particles evolving according to the Thiele equation. Interaction p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 25 cited

Circuits and excitations to enable Brownian token-based computing with skyrmions

Maarten A. Brems, Mathias Kläui, Peter Virnau

Brownian computing exploits thermal motion of discrete signal carriers (tokens) for computations. In this paper we address two major challenges that hinder competitive realizations…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 37 cited

Commensurability between element symmetry and the number of skyrmions governing skyrmion diffusion in confined geometries

Chengkun Song, Nico Kerber, Jan Rothörl +10

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic structures, which exhibit quasi-particle properties and can show enhanced stability against perturbation from thermal noise. Recently, t…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 13 cited

A minimal G-model for rebuilding whole genome structures from haploid single-cell Hi-C data

S. Wettermann, M. Brems, J. T. Siebert +3

We present a minimal computational model, which allows very fast, on-the-fly construction of three dimensional haploid interphase genomes from single cell Hi-C contact maps using t…