Abstract
We point out that a peculiar annihilation of a vortex-antivortex pair observed numerically by Hertel and Schneider [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 177202 (2006)] represents the formation and a subsequent decay of a skyrmion.
- Received 20 November 2006
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.75.012408
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