Join us for Quantum Today, where we sit down with researchers from the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) to talk about their work, its impact and where their research may lead.
Quantum spin is a fundamental property of matter. When many spins interact in a material, they can organize into topologically stable formations, such as the vortex-like magnetic skyrmions. By exploiting crystal disorder, IQC researchers have found new pathways to rearrange skyrmions, with implications for their topological stability. In this instalment of Quantum Today, IQC PhD student Melissa Henderson from the group of Professor Dmitry Pushin joins Dr. John Donohue to discuss their recent result which revealed exciting phenomena in disordered material using beams of neutrons.
Find their publication, titled “Skyrmion alignment and pinning effects in the disordered multiphase skyrmion material Co8Zn8Mn4” in Physical Review B and on the arXiv.
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