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20122026
most citedCreation and confirmation of Hopfions in magnetic multilayer systems

220 citations · 590 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Geometrical Confinement of Magnetic Domains and Domain Walls on Two-Dimensional Cylindrical-Shaped Ferromagnetic Surfaces

Gabriel Martínez-Carracedo, Aurelio Hierro-Rodríguez, Amador García-Fuente +1

The rolling of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnetic monolayers into cylindrical architectures provides an ideal platform for confining magnetic domain walls (DWs) with…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Controlled antivortex propagation at bifurcations in reconfigurable NdCo/NiFe racetracks

V. V. Fernandez, A. E. Herguedas-Alonso, C. Fernandez-Gonzalez +7

The controlled propagation of spin textures at bifurcations is a critical challenge for racetrack-based logic devices. Here, we investigate the effect of longitudinal and transvers…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Nucleation of magnetic textures in stripe domain bifurcations for reconfigurable domain wall racetracks

V. V. Fernández, S. Ferrer, A. Hierro-Rodríguez +1

Within the racetrack memory paradigm, systems exploiting magnetic guiding potentials instead of geometrical ones, allow for enhancing the versatility of the final devices adding ma…

physics.ins-det2025

MARTApp: software for the processing and reconstruction of synchrotron radiation-based magnetic tomographies

A. Estela Herguedas-Alonso, Joaquín Gómez Sánchez, Claudia Fernández-González +4

Magnetic vector tomography allows for visualizing the 3D magnetization vector of magnetic nanostructures and multilayers with nanometric resolution. In this work, we present MARTAp…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 12 cited

Fractional Skyrmion Tubes in Chiral-Interfaced Three-Dimensional Magnetic Nanowires

John Fullerton, Naëmi Leo, Jakub Jurczyk +9

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures with rich physics and great potential for unconventional computing. Typically, skyrmions form in bulk crystals with reduced symmetry or…

physics.app-ph2024★ 2 cited

Remote-sensing based control of 3D magnetic fields using machine learning for in-operando applications

Miguel A. Cascales Sandoval, J. Jurczyk, L. Skoric +6

In-operando techniques enable real-time measurement of intricate physical properties at the micro- and nano-scale under external stimuli, allowing the study of a wide range of mate…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

2024 Roadmap on Magnetic Microscopy Techniques and Their Applications in Materials Science

D. V. Christensen, U. Staub, T. R. Devidas +50

Considering the growing interest in magnetic materials for unconventional computing, data storage, and sensor applications, there is active research not only on material synthesis…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 5 cited

Determination of optimal experimental conditions for accurate 3D reconstruction of the magnetization vector via XMCD-PEEM

Miguel A. Cascales Sandoval, A. Hierro-Rodríguez, S. Ruiz-Gómez +10

In this work we present a detailed analysis on the performance of X-ray magnetic circular dichroism photo-emission electron microscopy (XMCD-PEEM) as a tool for vector reconstructi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 32 cited

Controlled Evolution of Three-Dimensional Magnetic States in Strongly Coupled Cylindrical Nanowire Pairs

J Fullerton, A Hierro-Rodriguez, C Donnelly +4

Cylindrical magnetic nanowires are promising systems for the development of three-dimensional spintronic devices. Here, we simulate the evolution of magnetic states during fabricat…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Topological magnetic dipoles and emergent field bundles in a ferromagnetic microstructure by X-ray magnetic vector tomography

Javier Hermosa, Aurelio Hierro-Rodriguez, Carlos Quirós +6

Advanced vector imaging techniques provide us with 3D maps of magnetization fields in which topological concepts can be directly applied to describe real-space experimental texture…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 60 cited

Domain wall automotion in three-dimensional magnetic helical interconnectors

L. Skoric, C. Donnelly, A. Hierro-Rodriguez +7

The fundamental limits currently faced by traditional computing devices necessitate the exploration of new ways to store, compute and transmit information. Here, we propose a three…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 3 cited

Curvature-mediated spin textures in magnetic multi-layered nanotubes

Elisabeth Josten, David Raftrey, Aurelio Hierro-Rodriguez +10

The scientific and technological exploration of artificially designed three-dimensional magnetic nanostructures opens the path to exciting novel physical phenomena, originating fro…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 26 cited

Micromagnetic modelling of magnetic domain walls in curved cylindrical nanotubes and nanowires

L. Skoric, C. Donnelly, C. Abert +3

We investigate the effect of curvature on the energy and stability of domain wall configurations in curved cylindrical nanotubes and nanowires. We use micromagnetic simulations to…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 34 cited

Non-planar geometrical effects on the magnetoelectrical signal in a three-dimensional nanomagnetic circuit

Fanfan Meng, Claire Donnelly, Claas Abert +11

Expanding nanomagnetism and spintronics into three dimensions (3D) offers great opportunities for both fundamental and technological studies. However, probing the influence of comp…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 220 cited

Creation and confirmation of Hopfions in magnetic multilayer systems

N. Kent, N. Reynolds, D. Raftrey +11

Topological solitons have been studied for decades in classical field theories, and have started recently to impact condensed matter physics. Among those solitons, magnetic skyrmio…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 120 cited

Artificial double-helix for geometrical control of magnetic chirality

Dédalo Sanz-Hernández, Aurelio Hierro-Rodriguez, Claire Donnelly +9

Chirality plays a major role in nature, from particle physics to DNA, and its control is much sought-after due to the scientific and technological opportunities it unlocks. For mag…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 1 cited

Revealing 3D Magnetization of Thin Films with Soft X-ray Tomography: Closure Domains and Magnetic Singularities

A. Hierro-Rodriguez, C. Quirós, A. Sorrentino +7

The knowledge of how the magnetization looks inside a ferromagnet is often hindered by the limitations of the available experimental methods that are sensitive only to the surface…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 29 cited

Controlled nucleation of topological defects in the stripe domain patterns of Lateral multilayers with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy: competition between magnetostatic, exchange and misfit interactions

A. Hierro-Rodriguez, M. Velez, R. Morales +5

Magnetic lateral multilayers have been fabricated on weak perpendicular magnetic anisotropy amorphous Nd-Co films in order to perform a systematic study on the conditions for contr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 46 cited

Topological defects and misfit strain in magnetic stripe domains of lateral multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

A. Hierro-Rodriguez, R. Cid, M. Vélez +4

Stripe domains are studied in perpendicular magnetic anisotropy films nanostructured with a periodic thickness modulation that induces the lateral modulation of both stripe periods…