Universality of defect-skyrmion interaction profiles

Clear understanding of the influence from material inhomogeneities and defects is one of the keys to achieve reliable Skyrmion based devices. Here the authors report their first principles studies on the interaction of single skyrmions with single-atom impurities and reveal its universal shape origi...

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Main Authors: Imara Lima Fernandes, Juba Bouaziz, Stefan Blügel, Samir Lounis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06827-5