The 2026 Skyrmionics Roadmap

TL;DR

The 2026 Skyrmionics Roadmap provides a comprehensive overview of the current state, challenges, and future directions of skyrmion-based research and technologies, aiming to accelerate practical applications in spintronics and related fields.

Contribution

It offers a detailed, collaborative roadmap summarizing recent advances, challenges, and future prospects in skyrmionics across multiple research areas and applications.

Findings

Progress in material platforms and imaging techniques

Identification of key challenges in stabilization and control

Emergence of novel topological spin textures

Abstract

Magnetic skyrmions and related topological spin textures have emerged as a central topic in condensed-matter physics, combining fundamental significance with potential for transformative applications in spintronics, magnonics, and beyond. Over the past decade, advances in material platforms, imaging techniques, theoretical modeling, and device concepts have established skyrmionics as a rapidly expanding field. At the same time, challenges remain in stabilizing, controlling, and integrating such textures into functional architectures, while novel phenomena such as antiskyrmions, higher-order skyrmions, hopfions, and antiferromagnetic textures arise. The 2026 Skyrmionics Roadmap represents a collective effort of many authors, providing a comprehensive perspective on the current state-of-the-art and the outlook for the coming years. In 33 focused sections, each co-authored by two researchers, we chart progress in theory and modeling, material systems, skyrmion dynamics, and skyrmion technologies. By offering a consolidated vision, this Roadmap aims to guide both fundamental research and application-driven efforts, accelerating the transition of skyrmionics from conceptual breakthroughs toward practical technologies.