Ross Knapman

Dr. Ross Knapman
Position | Postdoctoral Researcher |
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 |
Contact | Website Orcid iD Google Scholar Profile |
Fakultät für Physik, Theoretische Physik
47057 Duisburg
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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.
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Spacetime magnetic hopfions from internal excitations and braiding of skyrmionsIn: Communications Physics Vol. 7 (2024) Nr. 1, 151Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
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Current-induced H-shaped-skyrmion creation and their dynamics in the helical phaseIn: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics Vol. 54 (2021) Nr. 40, 404003Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)
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Nonlinear Dynamics of Topological Ferromagnetic Textures for Frequency MultiplicationIn: Physical Review Applied Vol. 16 (2021) Nr. 1, 014020Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)
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Creation and manipulation of topological magnetic textures in chiral and frustrated magnetsMainz (2024) 169 SeitenOnline Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Volltext (Open Access)
Journal articles
Thesis
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)].
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)]
Magnetic hopfion texture created from a tube of skyrmions, showing various preimages of the equatorial points on the unit sphere of magnetisation.