Topological Magnon Insulator with a Kekule Bond Modulation
Abstract
We examine the combined effects of a Kekule coupling texture (KC) and a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in a two-dimensional ferromagnetic honeycomb lattice. By analyzing the gap closing conditions and the inversions of the bulk bands, we identify the parameter range in which the system behaves as a trivial or a nontrivial topological magnon insulator. We find four topological phases in terms of the KC parameter and the DMI strength. We present the bulk-edge correspondence for the magnons in a honeycomb lattice with an armchair or a zigzag boundary. Furthermore, we find Tamm-like edge states due to the intrinsic on-site interactions along the boundary sites. Our results may have significant implications to magnon transport properties in the 2D magnets at low temperatures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1809.01073,
title = {Topological Magnon Insulator with a Kekule Bond Modulation},
author = {Pierre A. Pantaleon and Ramon Carrillo-Bastos and Y. Xian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.01073},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 figures