• Gideon Mueller
  • Pavel F. Bessarab
  • Sergei M. Vlasov
  • Fabian Lux
  • Nikolai Kiselev
  • Valery. M. Uzdin
  • Hannes Jonsson
  • Stefan Bluegel

Various transitions that a magnetic Skyrmion can undergo are found in calculations using a method for climbing up the energy surface and converging onto first order saddle points. In addition to collapse and escape through a boundary, the method identifies a transition where the Skyrmion divides and forms two Skyrmions. The activation energy for this duplication process can be similar to that of collapse and escape. A tilting of the external magnetic field for a certain time interval is found to induce the duplication process in a dynamical simulation. Such a process could turn out to be an important avenue for the creation of Skyrmions in future magnetic devices.

Original languageEnglish
Article number197202
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume121
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Nov 2018

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