Magnetic (anti)skyrmions are microscopically small
whirls that are found in special classes of magnetic materials.
These nano-objects could be used to host digital data by their
presence or absence in a sequence along a magnetic stripe. A team
of scientists from the Max Planck institutes (MPI) of
Microstructure Physics in Halle and for Chemical Physics of Solids
in Dresden and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
has now made the observation that skyrmions and antiskyrmions can
coexist bringing about the possibility to expand their capabilities
in storage devices. The results were published in the scientific
journal Nature Communications.
