Dr. Jan Masell

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsTheoretical Condensed Matter Physics
KeywordsAtomistic spin simulations, Magnetic skyrmions, Micromagnetics, Topological protection, Transition state theory
Honours and awards

2022: Young Scientist Award by the European Magnetism Association (EMA)

2021: Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship

2021: IEEE Best Oral Presentation Award

2021: IOP Outstanding Reviewer Award of Materials Research Express

2020: IOP Outstanding Reviewer Award of Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

2019: JSPS/Humboldt Fellowship

2018: Klaus Liebrecht-Dissertationspreis der Math.-Nat. Fakultät der Universität zu Köln

2015: Promotions-Stipendium der Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy

2015: Promotions-Stipendium der Deutsche Telekom Stiftung

2012: Stipendium (Master-Studium) der Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy

2010: NRW-Stipendium (Deutschlandstipendium) bis 2012

Current contact address

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Naoto NagaosaCenter for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), RIKEN, Wako
Prof. Dr. Markus GarstInstitut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik (TFP), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Karlsruhe
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2019

Programme(s)

2019Research Fellowship Programme from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Publications (partial selection)

2022Karube, Kosuke and Peng, Licong and Masell, Jan and Hemmida, Mamoun and von Nidda, Hans-Albrecht Krug and K{\'e}zsm{\'a}rki, Istv{\'a}n and Yu, Xiuzhen and Tokura, Yoshinori and Taguchi, Yasujiro: Doping Control of Magnetic Anisotropy for Stable Antiskyrmion Formation in Schreibersite (Fe, Ni) 3P with S4 symmetry. In: Advanced Materials, 2022, 2108770
2022Kurebayashi, Daichi and Liu, Yizhou and Masell, Jan and Nagaosa, Naoto: Theory of charge and spin pumping in atomic-scale spiral magnets. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.05446, 2022,
2021Knapman, Ross and Rodrigues, Davi R and Masell, Jan and Everschor-Sitte, Karin: Current-induced H-shaped-skyrmion creation and their dynamics in the helical phase. In: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 54, 2021, 404003
2021Masell, Jan and Everschor-Sitte, Karin: Current-induced dynamics of chiral magnetic structures: creation, motion, and applications. Chirality, Magnetism and Magnetoelectricity. Springer, Cham, 2021. 147--181
2021Stepanova, Mariia and Masell, Jan and Lysne, Erik and Schoenherr, Peggy and Köhler, Laura and Paulsen, Michael and Qaiumzadeh, Alireza and Kanazawa, Naoya and Rosch, Achim and Tokura, Yoshinori and others: Detection of Topological Spin Textures via Nonlinear Magnetic Responses. In: Nano Letters, 22, 2021, 14--21
2021Kolincio, Kamil K and Hirschberger, Max and Masell, Jan and Gao, Shang and Kikkawa, Akiko and Taguchi, Yasujiro and Arima, Taka-hisa and Nagaosa, Naoto and Tokura, Yoshinori: Large Hall and Nernst responses from thermally induced spin chirality in a spin-trimer ferromagnet. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, 2021,
2021Yu, Xiuzhen and Kagawa, Fumitaka and Seki, Shinichiro and Kubota, Masashi and Masell, Jan and Yasin, Fehmi and Nakajima, Kiyomi and Nakamura, Masao and Kawasaki, Masashi and Nagaosa, Naoto and others: Real-space observations of 60-nm skyrmion dynamics in an insulating magnet under low heat flow. In: Nature Communications, 12, 2021, 5079
2021Karube, Kosuke and Peng, Licong and Masell, Jan and Yu, Xiuzhen and Kagawa, Fumitaka and Tokura, Yoshinori and Taguchi, Yasujiro: Room-temperature antiskyrmions and sawtooth surface textures in a non-centrosymmetric magnet with S 4 symmetry. In: Nature Materials, 20, 2021, 335--340
2020Masell, Jan and Yu, Xiuzhen and Kanazawa, Naoya and Tokura, Yoshinori and Nagaosa, Naoto: Combing the helical phase of chiral magnets with electric currents. In: Physical Review B, 102, 2020, 180402
2020Yu, Xiuzhen and Masell, Jan and Yasin, Fehmi S and Karube, Kosuke and Kanazawa, Naoya and Nakajima, Kiyomi and Nagai, Takuro and Kimoto, Koji and Koshibae, Wataru and Taguchi, Yasujiro and others: Real-space observation of topological defects in extended skyrmion-strings. In: Nano Letters, 20, 2020, 7313--7320
2020Masell, Jan and Rodrigues, Davi R and McKeever, Ben F and Everschor-Sitte, Karin: Spin-transfer torque driven motion, deformation, and instabilities of magnetic skyrmions at high currents. In: Physical Review B, 101, 2020, 214428
2020Hirschberger, Max and Spitz, Leonie and Nomoto, Takuya and Kurumaji, Takashi and Gao, Shang and Masell, Jan and Nakajima, Taro and Kikkawa, Akiko and Yamasaki, Yuichi and Sagayama, Hajime and others: Topological Nernst effect of the two-dimensional skyrmion lattice. In: Physical Review Letters, 125, 2020, 076602
2019Lohani, Vivek and Hickey, Ciar{\'a}n and Masell, Jan and Rosch, Achim: Quantum skyrmions in frustrated ferromagnets. In: Physical Review X, 9, 2019, 041063
2019Heil, Benjamin and Rosch, Achim and Masell, Jan: Universality of annihilation barriers of large magnetic skyrmions in chiral and frustrated magnets. In: Physical Review B, 100, 2019, 134424
2018Everschor-Sitte, Karin and Masell, Jan and Reeve, Robert M and Kläui, Mathias: Perspective: Magnetic skyrmions—Overview of recent progress in an active research field. In: Journal of Applied Physics, 124, 2018, 240901
2018Zhang, Shilei and van der Laan, Gerrit and Müller, Jan and Heinen, Lukas and Garst, Markus and Bauer, Andreas and Berger, Helmuth and Pfleiderer, Christian and Hesjedal, Thorsten: Reciprocal space tomography of 3D skyrmion lattice order in a chiral magnet. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 2018, 6386--6391
2018Schoenherr, Peggy and Müller, Jan and Köhler, Laura and Rosch, Achim and Kanazawa, Naoya and Tokura, Yoshinori and Garst, Markus and Meier, Dennis: Topological domain walls in helimagnets. In: Nature Physics, 14, 2018, 465--468
2017Wild, Johannes and Meier, Thomas NG and Pöllath, Simon and Kronseder, Matthias and Bauer, Andreas and Chacon, Alfonso and Halder, Marco and Schowalter, Marco and Rosenauer, Andreas and Zweck, Josef and others: Entropy-limited topological protection of skyrmions. In: Science advances, 3, 2017, e1701704
2017Müller, Jan and Rajeswari, Jayaraman and Huang, Ping and Murooka, Yoshie and R{\o}nnow, Henrik M and Carbone, Fabrizio and Rosch, Achim: Magnetic Skyrmions and Skyrmion Clusters in the Helical Phase of Cu 2 OSeO 3. In: Physical review letters, 119, 2017, 137201
2017Zhang, Xichao and Müller, Jan and Xia, Jing and Garst, Markus and Liu, Xiaoxi and Zhou, Yan: Motion of skyrmions in nanowires driven by magnonic momentum-transfer forces. In: New Journal of Physics, 19, 2017, 065001
2016Müller, Jan and Rosch, Achim and Garst, Markus: Edge instabilities and skyrmion creation in magnetic layers. In: New Journal of Physics, 18, 2016, 065006
2016Müller, Jan: Shape-dependence of the barrier for skyrmions on a two-lane racetrack. Spintronics IX. 2016. 993136
2015Müller, Jan and Rosch, Achim: Capturing of a magnetic skyrmion with a hole. In: Physical Review B, 91, 2015, 054410
2014Lux, Jonathan and Müller, Jan and Mitra, Aditi and Rosch, Achim: Hydrodynamic long-time tails after a quantum quench. In: Physical Review A, 89, 2014, 053608