Ross Knapman

Ross Knapman

Dr. Ross Knapman

Position Postdoctoral Researcher
Email ross.knapman@uni-due.de
Phone 0203-379-4717
Office MG 384
Address Twist Group, Faculty of Physics
University of Duisburg-Essen
Campus Duisburg
Lotharstraße 1
D 47057 Duisburg
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Fakultät für Physik, Theoretische Physik

Address
Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg
Room
MG 384

Functions

  • Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in, Arbeitsgruppe Prof. Everschor-Sitte

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The following publications are listed in the online university bibliography of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Further information may also be found on the person's personal web pages.

    Journal articles

  • Knapman, Ross; Tausendpfund, Timon; Díaz, Sebastián A.; Everschor-Sitte, Karin
    Spacetime magnetic hopfions from internal excitations and braiding of skyrmions
    In: Communications Physics Vol. 7 (2024) Nr. 1, 151
  • Knapman, Ross; Rodrigues, Davi R.; Masell, Jan; Everschor-Sitte, Karin
    Current-induced H-shaped-skyrmion creation and their dynamics in the helical phase
    In: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics Vol. 54 (2021) Nr. 40, 404003
  • Rodrigues, Davi R.; Nothhelfer, Jonas; Mohseni, Morteza; Knapman, Ross; Pirro, Philipp; Everschor-Sitte, Karin
    Nonlinear Dynamics of Topological Ferromagnetic Textures for Frequency Multiplication
    In: Physical Review Applied Vol. 16 (2021) Nr. 1, 014020
  • Thesis

  • Knapman, Ross;
    Creation and manipulation of topological magnetic textures in chiral and frustrated magnets
    Mainz (2024) 169 Seiten

Topologically nontrivial textures hold great promise as information units for future data manipulation and storage devices, as well as for unconventional computing paradigms such as reservoir computing.

In two dimensions, a key example of such a texture is the magnetic skyrmion. During my PhD, I investigated the creation and dynamics of skyrmions driven by electrical currents in the cycloidal state of a magnet. In this state, skyrmions typically appear as H-shaped (see figure) and their motion is confined to 1D [Knapman, et al., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 54, 404003 (2021)].

H-Shaped Skyrmion
A schematic of a H-shaped skyrmion in a cycloidal background.


A three-dimensional topologically non-trivial magnetic texture of significant interest is the magnetic hopfion (see figure). We provide and compare different numerical tools for calculating the corresponding topological index – the Hopf [Knapman, R. et al., arXiv:2410.22058]. Furthermore, we predicted and explored magnetic hopfions in (2+1)D spacetime.  [Knapman, R. et al., Commun. Phys. 7, 151 (2024)]

Hopfion
Magnetic hopfion texture created from a tube of skyrmions, showing various preimages of the equatorial points on the unit sphere of magnetisation.