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This paper was suggested to me by Dr. Adam Ahmed. Typically skyrmions appear in bulk materials near the magnetic transition temperature T_C in a small pocket of phase space. In this paper a second skyrmion phase is found at zero temperature stabilized by crystalline anisotropies in the material (Cu2OSeO3). The two skyrmion phases are not thermodynamically connected, e.g., there is a phase transition between them. The existence of multiple skyrmion phases has been proposed theoretically but this is the first experimental observation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0184-y

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