In cubic noncentrosymmetric ferromagnets, uniaxial distortions suppress the helical states and stabilize skyrmion lattices in a broad range of thermodynamical parameters. Using a phenomenological theory for modulated and localized states in chiral magnets, the equilibrium parameters of the...

Curling magnetic vortices with chiral rotation sense and polarity of the core magnetization can exist in magnetic circular nanostructures. Broken mirror symmetry at surfaces/interfaces of magnetic nanostructures induces chiral Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions which may strongly affect the...

Broken inversion symmetry in magnetic nanostructures induces Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya couplings. In the presence of surfaces/interfaces the magnetism of magnetic nanodisks can be essentially affected by these chiral couplings. Within a micromagnetic approach we calculate the equilibrium sizes and...

The magnetization process of antiferromagnetically coupled [(Co/Pt)8/Co/Ru]18 multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy is investigated via magnetic force microscopy at room temperature by imaging the domain configuration in magnetic fields. In the zero-field state, due to the perpendicular...