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Stabilization of spin skyrmions in magnetic materials and a two-dimensional electron gas

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An integrodifferential equation for skyrmions in a magnetic material is solved by the finite-difference method with allowance for Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and dipole-dipole interactions.

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    A. N. Kalinkin, V. M. Skorikov, E. M. Kozhbakhteev, A. E. Polyakov & S. A. Kuznetsova

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Original Russian Text © A.N. Kalinkin, V.M. Skorikov, E.M. Kozhbakhteev, A.E. Polyakov, S.A. Kuznetsova, 2013, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2013, Vol. 49, No. 12, pp. 1300–1303.

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Kalinkin, A.N., Skorikov, V.M., Kozhbakhteev, E.M. et al. Stabilization of spin skyrmions in magnetic materials and a two-dimensional electron gas. Inorg Mater 49, 1199–1202 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002016851312008X

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