This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.017201.

Magnetic skyrmions are localized nanometer-sized spin configurations with particle-like properties, which are envisioned to be used as bits in next-generation information technology. An essential step toward future skyrmion-based applications is to engineer key magnetic parameters for developing and stabilizing individual magnetic skyrmions. Here we demonstrate the tuning of the non-collinear magnetic state of an Fe double layer on an Ir(111) substrate by loading the sample with atomic hydrogen. By using spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy, we discover that the hydrogenated system supports the formation of skyrmions in external magnetic fields, while the pristine Fe double layer does not. Based on ab initio calculations, we attribute this effect to the tuning of the Heisenberg exchange and the Dzyaloshinsky–Moriya interactions due to hydrogenation. In addition to interface engineering, hydrogenation of thin magnetic films offers a unique pathway to design and optimize the skyrmionic states in low-dimensional magnetic materials.

We report on the influence of uniaxial strain relief on the spin spiral state in the Fe double layer grown on Ir(111). Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements reveal areas with reconstruction lines resulting from uniaxial strain relief due to the lattice mismatch of Fe and Ir atoms, as well as pseudomorphic strained areas. Magnetic field-dependent spin-polarized STM measurements of the reconstructed Fe double layer reveal cycloidal spin spirals with a period on the nm scale. Globally, the spin spiral wave fronts are guided along symmetry-equivalent [112̅] crystallographic directions of the fcc(111) substrate. On an atomic scale the spin spiral propagation direction is linked to the [001] direction of the bcc(110)-like Fe, leading to a zigzag shaped wave front. The isotropically strained pseudomorphic areas also exhibit a preferred magnetic periodicity on the nm scale but no long-range order. We find that already for local strain relief with a single set of reconstruction lines a strict guiding of the spin spiral is realized.

The influence of in-plane and canted magnetic fields on spin spirals and skyrmions in atomic bilayer islands of palladium and iron on an Ir(111) substrate is investigated by scanning tunnelling microscopy at low temperatures. It is shown that the spin spiral propagation direction is determined by the island's border which can be explained by equilibrium state calculations on a triangular lattice. By application of in-plane fields, the spin spiral reorientates its propagation direction and becomes distorted, thereby allowing a proof for its cycloidal nature. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the skyrmions' shape is distorted in canted fields which allows to determine the sense of magnetisation rotation as enforced by the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction.

As a result of a joint interservice research effort, the Army-Navy Spinner Rocket program consisting of more than three hundred models of various lengths has been fired on BRL's precision Free Flight Spark Range. The data obtained from these firings are analysed to provide a good determination of the effect of model length on the aerodynamic coefficients for supersonic Mach numbers. The effect of length on dynamic stability is considered in detail« Appendices provide a summary of theoretical relations, conversion relations between aerodynamic and ballistic nomenclature, and a full tabulation of the experimental data.