Researchers in Switzerland, Germany and The Netherlands have succeeded in imaging single skyrmion bubbles in an experiment for the first time using a technique called soft X-ray holography. The way the tiny structures move implies that they behave like particles with mass – a finding that might be important for understanding topologically related structures in other systems such as Bose-Einstein condensates, antiferromagnetic superconductors and multiferroics. Magnetic skyrmions have recently created a flurry of interest in the spintronics and nanotechnology world and might be used to make future high-density data-storage technologies and nanodigital electronic devices with improved data transfer speeds and processing power….
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