  Ever increasing demand of skyrmion manipulation in nanodevices has brought up
interesting research to 8 understand the stabilization of these topologically
protected chiral structures. To understand the actual shape 9 and size of
skyrmion observed experimentally, we have performed micromagnetic simulations
to investigate 10 skyrmion stabilization in presence of random anisotropy in
magnetic thin film system. Previous experimental 11 reports of skyrmion imaging
in thin films depicts that the skyrmion shape is not perfectly circular. Here
we 12 show via simulations that the shape of a skyrmion can get distorted due
to the presence of different local 13 anisotropy energy. The values of uniaxial
anisotropy constant (Ku) and random aniostropy constant (Kr) 14 are varied to
understand the change in shape and size of a skyrmion and an antiskyrmion
stabilized in a 15 square magnetic nanoelement. The skyrmion shape gets
distorted and the size gets constant for high random 16 anisotropy energy in
the system.
