MAY 25, 2026
by Camilla Thulin, Uppsala University
edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan
Two key points…☯️
“In a chiral magnetic crystal, the structure comes in two variants that are mirror images of each other, like a left hand and a right hand. Although they are made of the same atoms, the two forms cannot be perfectly aligned by rotation. This built-in asymmetry strongly influences how magnetic spins arrange themselves inside the material.”
“…Published in Nature Communications, researchers demonstrated so-called bimerons, two-dimensional magnetic structures that can be seen as counterparts of three-dimensional hopfions. Taken together, these studies show that laser light can serve as a general tool for accessing new magnetic states in different materials and in both two and three dimensions.”