{"id":172300,"date":"2023-09-18T23:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T04:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/generating-biskyrmions-in-a-rare-earth-magnet"},"modified":"2023-09-18T23:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T04:23:25","slug":"generating-biskyrmions-in-a-rare-earth-magnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/generating-biskyrmions-in-a-rare-earth-magnet","title":{"rendered":"Generating biskyrmions in a rare earth magnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/generating-biskyrmions-in-a-rare-earth-magnet3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnetic skyrmions have received much attention as promising, topologically protected quasiparticles with applications in spintronics. Skyrmions are small, swirling topological magnetic excitations with particle-like properties. Nevertheless, the lower stability of magnetic skyrmions only allow them to exist in a narrow temperature range, with low density of the particles, thus implying the need for an external magnetic field, which greatly limits their wider applications.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report published in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, Yuzhu Song and a team of researchers formed high-density, spontaneous magnetic biskyrmions without a magnetic field in ferrimagnets via the thermal expansion of the lattice.<\/p>\n<p>The team noted a strong connection between the atomic-scale ferrimagnetic structure and nanoscale magnetic domains in a ferrimagnet compound by using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/materials-science\/powder-neutron-diffraction\">neutron powder diffraction<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeol.com\/words\/emterms\/20121023.110857.php#gsc.tab=0\">Lorentz transmission electron microscopy<\/a> measurements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetic skyrmions have received much attention as promising, topologically protected quasiparticles with applications in spintronics. Skyrmions are small, swirling topological magnetic excitations with particle-like properties. Nevertheless, the lower stability of magnetic skyrmions only allow them to exist in a narrow temperature range, with low density of the particles, thus implying the need for an external [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172300","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=172300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}