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This discovery opens up a new class of materials for scientists working on ‘skyrmionics,’ which aims to build memory and logic devices based on skyrmions (tiny magnetic vortices). The field of skyrmionics has developed rapidly over the last few years. The very small (around 10 nm) magnetic vortices could provide a new way to build memory and logical devices with a very low energy use. ‘In fact, a computer memory system based on magnetic bubbles, which are basically very large skyrmions, was invented in the 1967 at Bell Labs’, explains Maxim Mostovoy, Associate Prof of Theoretical Physics at the University of Groningen...