{"id":159271,"date":"2023-03-01T03:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T09:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/observing-phononic-skyrmions-based-on-the-hybrid-spin-of-elastic-waves"},"modified":"2023-03-01T03:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T09:22:49","slug":"observing-phononic-skyrmions-based-on-the-hybrid-spin-of-elastic-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/observing-phononic-skyrmions-based-on-the-hybrid-spin-of-elastic-waves","title":{"rendered":"Observing phononic skyrmions based on the hybrid spin of elastic waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/observing-phononic-skyrmions-based-on-the-hybrid-spin-of-elastic-waves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Skyrmions are extremely small with diameters in the nanoscale, and they behave as particles suited for information storage and logic technologies. In 1961, Tony Skyrme formulated a manifestation of the first topological defect to model a particle and coined it as <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2001.09944\">skyrmions<\/a>. Such particles with topologically stable configurations can launch a promising route toward establishing high-density magnetic and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/search\/?search=phonon&s=0\">phononic<\/a> (a discrete unit of quantum vibrational mechanical energy) information processing routes.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report published in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, Liyun Cao and a team of researchers at the University of Lorraine CNRS, France, experimentally developed phononic skyrmions as new topological structures by using the three-dimensional (3D) hybrid spin of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/elastic+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">elastic waves<\/a>. The researchers observed the frequency-independent spin configurations and their progression toward the formation of ultra-broadband phononic skyrmions that could be produced on any solid structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skyrmions are extremely small with diameters in the nanoscale, and they behave as particles suited for information storage and logic technologies. In 1961, Tony Skyrme formulated a manifestation of the first topological defect to model a particle and coined it as skyrmions. Such particles with topologically stable configurations can launch a promising route toward establishing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}