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. 2015 Nov 25;5:17137. doi: 10.1038/srep17137

Figure 7. The isolated skyrmion orientation reversal in confined three-dimensional helimagnetic nanostructure.

Figure 7

(a) The spatially averaged magnetisation components Inline graphic, Inline graphic, and Inline graphic and (b) skyrmion number Inline graphic, scalar value Inline graphic, and total energy Inline graphic time evolutions in the reversal process over Inline graphic. The simulated sample is a Inline graphic thin film disk with Inline graphic diameter. (c) The magnetisation states at different instances of time (points A to F) together with Inline graphic colourmap in the Inline graphic cross section and Inline graphic profiles along the horizontal symmetry line. (d) The Inline graphic colourmap and magnetisation field in the central part of Inline graphic cross section as shown in an inset together with the position of Bloch point (BP). (e) The BP structure along with colourmaps of magnetisation components which shows that the magnetisation covers the closed surface (sphere surrounding the BP) exactly once.