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Topological responses from gapped Weyl points in 2D altermagnets

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-06-05 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

We study the symmetry requirements for topologically protected spin-polarized Weyl points in 2D altermagnets. The topology is characterized by a quantized π\pi-Berry phase and the degeneracy is protected by spin-space group symmetries. Gapped phases with finite Chern and/or spin/chirality Chern numbers emerge under different symmetry-breaking mass terms. We investigate the surface and transport properties of these gapped phases using representative electronic tight-binding and magnonic linear spin-wave models. In particular, we calculate the electronic and magnonic Hall currents and discuss implications for experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2403.09520,
  title  = {Topological responses from gapped Weyl points in 2D altermagnets},
  author = {Kirill Parshukov and Raymond Wiedmann and Andreas P. Schnyder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09520},
  year   = {2025}
}

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20 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables

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