Hopfion ring (IMAGE)

Forschungszentrum Juelich

Hopfion ring

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The illustration on the left schematically shows the magnetization of the hopfion ring around a skyrmion string. The colored lines consist of dots with identical magnetization directions. The images on the right are electron micrographs of a hopfion ring around a single skyrmion string in an iron-germanium square-shaped platelet.

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Forschungszentrum Jülich / Nikolai Kiselev

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