Magnetic skyrmions are tiny entities, manifesting in magnetic materials, that consist of localized twists in the magnetization direction of the medium. Each skyrmion is highly stable because eliminating it requires untwisting the magnetization direction of the material, just as a knot on a string can only be untied by pulling the rest of the string out of the knot. Read more

The team of Prof. Christos Panagopoulos develops novel materials with “strong spin-orbit coupling”, meaning that the motion of the electrons inside the materials is strongly influenced by their intrinsic magnetic moment and angular momentum.