Current-induced motion of nanoscale magnetic torons over the wide range of the Hall angle
Current-driven dynamics of topological spin textures plays a pivotal role in potential applications for electronic devices. While two-dimensional magnetic skyrmions have garnered significant interest, their practical use is hindered by the skyrmion Hall effect—a transverse motion to the current direction that occurs as a counteraction to the topological Hall effect of electrons arising from the Berry phase effect. Here, we explore current-driven dynamics of three-dimensional topological spin textures, magnetic torons, composed of layered skyrmions with two singularities called Bloch points at their ends. Through extensive numerical simulations, we show that torons exhibit a unique Hall motion ranging from the zero Hall effect, a purely longitudinal motion, to the perfect Hall effect, a purely transverse motion accompanied by no longitudinal motion. Such flexible and controllable behaviors stem from anisotropic potential barriers on the discrete lattice for nanoscale torons. Our results provide a method to probe the topology of three-dimensional magnetic textures and contribute to advanced topological spintronics beyond the realm of skyrmions. In this work, the authors theoretically study current-driven magnetic toron motion in a metallic chiral magnet. The peculiar controllability of toron motion, including the purely longitudinal motion (zero toron Hall effect) and purely transverse motion without any longitudinal one (perfect toron Hall effect), is discovered and explained.
Authors
- Yukitoshi Motome (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0707-366X)
- Shun Okumura (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3643-1684)
- Kotaro Shimizu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0400-7042)
- Yasuyuki Kato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5359-826X)
Institutions
- University of Fukui (JP)
- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (JP)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Communications Physics
- Published
- 2025-02-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-025-01970-0
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Magnetic properties of thin films
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.99
Funders
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology