“…8,9 The traditional way to move skyrmions is by spin-polarized currents, [10][11][12][13] but other approaches that do not involve charge currents and the associated Joule heating effects are being explored, such as electric fields, 14,15 spatially variable magnetic fields, 16,17 temperature gradients, 18,19 spin waves, 20 and voltage-controlled anisotropy gradients. [21][22][23][24] Meanwhile, the possibility of controlling magnetic textures using mechanical stress is currently being investigated, with promising results in domain walls 25,26 and skyrmions. [27][28][29][30][31] In particular, there is experimental evidence that skyrmions can be nucleated and annihilated through stress control of the topological phase transition in bulk single crystals, 27,28 whereas simulations indicate that voltage-controlled strain-mediated switching of skyrmions is possible in heterostructures with the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction on top of a piezoelectric (PZ) substrate.…”