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A liquid-crystal analogue of the skyrmion Hall effect

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Nature Physics, Published online: 19 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03379-0

Magnetic skyrmions are known to exhibit a Hall effect in the presence of an electric current. Now it is shown that liquid-crystal solitons also exhibit a Hall-like drift under shear flow.