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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">najo</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Наносистемы: физика, химия, математика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2220-8054</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2305-7971</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Университет ИТМО</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17586/2220-8054-2026-17-3-327-338</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">najo-1840</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>PHYSICS</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ФИЗИКА</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Skyrmion collapse and nucleation in synthetic antiferromagnet islands with pinned boundaries</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Распад и зарождение скирмионов в синтетических антиферромагнитных островках с закрепленными границами</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1380-2454</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Поткина</surname><given-names>М. Н.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Potkina</surname><given-names>M. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Maria N. Potkina – Infochemistry Scientific Center.</p><p>197101 St. Petersburg</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">potkina.maria@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Infochemistry Scientific Center, ITMO University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>18</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>17</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>327</fpage><lpage>338</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Potkina M.N., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Поткина М.Н.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Potkina M.N.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://nanojournal.ifmo.ru/jour/article/view/1840">https://nanojournal.ifmo.ru/jour/article/view/1840</self-uri><abstract><p>Magnetic skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets are promising nanoscale bits, but their usefulness depends on how reliably a written pair survives and can be created. Using a reduced lattice model, we compute minimum energy paths for collapse of an antiferromagnetically bound skyrmion pair and for reverse nucleation from a pinned antiferromagnetic reference state. With antiferromagnetically pinned boundaries, the main saddle energy changes only weakly with pinned-island size, whereas the skyrmion-pair minimum carries a strong size-dependent boundary penalty. For large pinned islands, collapse is layer-sequential and can pass through a single-layer skyrmion intermediate whenever this state satisfies the relaxation criterion. The much larger reverse barrier for nucleation shows a strong asymmetry with collapse in the same pinned-boundary model and is consistent with assisted layer-sequential writing.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Магнитные скирмионы в синтетических антиферромагнетиках являются перспективными наноразмерными элементами, но их применимость зависит от того, насколько надежно сохраняется и может быть создана записанная пара. Используя сокращенную решеточную модель, мы вычислили пути с минимальным перепадом энергии для коллапса антиферромагнитно связанной пары скирмионов и для обратного зарождения из закрепленного антиферромагнитного референсного состояния. При антиферромагнитно закрепленных границах энергия наибольшего седлового состояния лишь незначительно изменяется с размером островка, в то время как энергия пары скирмионов в начальном минимуме имеет сильно зависящую от размера островка граничную поправку. Для крупных островков коллапс происходит последовательно по слоям и может проходить через промежуточный минимум со скирмионом в одном слое всякий раз, когда это состояние удовлетворяет критерию релаксации. Гораздо больший обратный барьер для нуклеации демонстрирует сильную асимметрию с коллапсом в той же модели закрепленной границы и согласуется с послойной последовательной записью с помощью вспомогательных средств.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>высокоориентированный пиролитический графит</kwd><kwd>графен</kwd><kwd>алканы</kwd><kwd>механические напряжения</kwd><kwd>сверхпроводимость</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>synthetic antiferromagnets</kwd><kwd>magnetic skyrmions</kwd><kwd>minimum energy path</kwd><kwd>collapse barrier</kwd><kwd>nucleation barrier</kwd><kwd>racetrack memory</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 24-72-00089, https://rscf.ru/en/project/24-72-00089/</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Wiesendanger R. 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