Researchers have used electrical currents to manipulate the motions of single skyrmions at room temperature. Xiuzhen Yu, together with colleagues at Japan’s RIKEN Centre for Emergent Matter Science, formed the skyrmions in chiral-lattice magnets, then steered their paths using ultra-short electrical pulses. The team hopes that their results could pave the way for advanced, skyrmion-based information storage devices.
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