Field-Selected Topological Buffering in a Disordered Skyrmion Crystal

Quenched disorder can disrupt crystalline order without immediately destroying the topology of its constituent textures, but the relation between these processes in skyrmion crystals remains unclear.

Quenched disorder can disrupt crystalline order without immediately destroying the topology of its constituent textures, but the relation between these processes in skyrmion crystals remains unclear. Using large-scale simulations of a triangular-lattice chiral magnet with random…