“…They have been predicted theoretically by Bogdanov et al [3], [4] long before their experimental detection and discovery [26,24]. In recent years magnetic skyrmions have attracted a lot of theoretical [13,22,23,39,5,21], simulation [9,18,40,32], and experimental [13,34,17,11,27] attention due to their thermodynamic and topological stability, their small size, and their inherent property of easy movement and repositioning under the application of low or even tiny in-plane electric currents. They seem promising for use in next generation spintronic devices [33,50] as information carriers, giving the credentials of ultra dense low-cost power storage and the capability to perform logical operations [12].…”