(Anti-)Skyrmions (IMAGE)

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

(Anti-)Skyrmions

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Schematic representation of the magnetization in an advanced racetrack memory data storage. Skyrmions (blue) and antiskyrmions (red) constitute the '1' and '0' bits, respectively.

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Dr. Börge Göbel/MLU

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