Skyrmions in Condensed Matter

• Main Author: Han, Jung Hoon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 278
• Subjects: Physics.; Condensed matter.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.

This book summarizes some of the most exciting theoretical developments in the topological phenomena of skyrmions in noncentrosymmetric magnetic systems over recent decades. After presenting pedagogical backgrounds to the Berry phase and homotopy theory, the author systematically discusses skyrmions...

Table of Contents:

• Geometric Phases
• Solitons and Homotopy
• Skyrmions in Chiral Magnets.-Skyrmion Equation of Motion
• Skyrmion-Electron Interaction
• Magnon Dynamics
• Miscellaneous Topics
• Skyrmions in spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate.