A tailor-made magnetic vortex: A closer look at a special kind of quasiparticle

Skyrmions are microscopic magnetic vortices that can form in certain materials. First detected in 2009, they are of interest to researchers because they could be harnessed for new forms of data storage. As theoreticians predicted, there are also so-called antiskyrmions, which were discovered 10 years after skyrmions.