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We describe a scheme that enables a strong coherent coupling between a topological qubit and the quantized motion of a magnetized nanomechanical resonator. This coupling is achieved by attaching an array of magnetic tips to a namomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Fang-Yu Hong , Huiqin Qian , Jing-Li Fu , Zhi-Yan Zhu , Li-zhen Jiang

Unlocking the potential of topological order within many-body spin systems has long been a central pursuit in the realm of quantum materials. Despite extensive efforts, the quest for a versatile platform enabling site-selective spin…

We describe an intrinsic spin-Hall effect in $n$-type bulk zinc-blende semiconductors with topological origin. When electron transport is confined to a waveguide structure, and the applied electric field is such that the spins of electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 T. Fujita , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

The charge-to-spin conversion provides an efficient way to manipulate the magnetization by electrical means. In this work, we report on a study on the anisotropic nonrelativistic charge-to-spin conversion response to the current direction…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-10 Mingbo Dou , Xianjie Wang , L. L. Tao

We introduce and analyze a class of one dimensional insulating Hamiltonians which, when adiabatically varied in an appropriate closed cycle, define a "$Z_2$ pump". For an isolated system a single closed cycle of the pump changes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

Orbital angular momentum has recently emerged as an important carrier of angular momentum in solids, offering new pathways for spin orbitronic functionality beyond conventional spin transport. Here, we investigate the orbital Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Abhishek Erram , Akanksha Chouhan , Ashwin A. Tulapurkar

Inspired by the topological insulator circuit proposed and experimentally verified by Jia., et al. \cite{1}, we theoretically realized the topological Lieb lattice, a line centered square lattice with rich topological properties, in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Weiwei Zhu , Shanshan Hou , Yang Long , Hong Chen , Jie Ren

We propose an altermagnet-topological insulator bilayer as a platform to engineer Berry phase driven spin-charge responses using an interfacial buffer layer. Using a momentum-space lattice model and linear-response theory, we investigate a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Juhi Singh , Narayan Mohanta

We present a general theory about electron orbital motions in topological insulators. An in-plane electric field drives spin-up and spin-down electrons bending to opposite directions, and skipping orbital motions, a counterpart of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Li-kun Shi , Shou-cheng Zhang , Kai Chang

We theoretically investigate the spin-charge transport in two-terminal device of graphene nanoribbons in the presence of an uniform uniaxial strain, spin-orbit coupling, exchange field and smooth staggered potential. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 Ginetom S. Diniz , Marcos R. Guassi , Fanyao Qu

We study the topological properties of a spin-orbit coupled Hofstadter model on the Kagome lattice. The model is time-reversal invariant and realizes a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological insulator as a result of artificial gauge fields. We develop…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-04 Irakli Titvinidze , Julian Legendre , Maarten Grothus , Bernhard Irsigler , Karyn Le Hur , Walter Hofstetter

Controlling spin current and magnetic exchange coupling by applying an electric field and achieving high spin injection efficiency at the same time in a nanostructure coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes have been the outstanding challenges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Kamal B Dhungana , Ranjit Pati

The superconducting transition temperature, Tc, of the SrTiO3/LaAlO3 interface was varied by the electric field effect. The anisotropy of the upper critical field and the normal state magneto-transport were studied as a function of gate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Ben Shalom , M. Sachs , D. Rakhmilevitch , A. Palevski , Y. Dagan

We show that in excitonic insulators with $s$-wave electron-hole pairing, an applied electric field (either pulsed or static) can induce a $p$-wave component to the order parameter, and further drive it to rotate in the $s+ip$ plane,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-14 Zhiyuan Sun , Andrew J. Millis

This work describes topological magnon transport in zigzag CrI$_3$ nanoribbons (ZNR) in presence of edge strain. Exchange coupling terms under strain are obtained from first-principles calculations, and the topological properties are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 David Sanz Ruiz , David Soriano

Topological insulators have emerged as an important material class for efficient spin-charge interconversion. Most topological insulators considered to date are binary or ternary compounds, with the exception of $\alpha$-Sn. Here we report…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Federico Binda , Can Onur Avci , Santos Francisco Alvarado , Paul Noël , Charles-Henri Lambert , Pietro Gambardella

We show that the interplay between chiral tunneling and spin-momentum locking of helical surface states leads to spin amplification and filtering in a 3D Topological Insulator (TI). Chiral tunneling across a TI pn junction allows normally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 K. M. Masum Habib , Redwan N. Sajjad , Avik W. Ghosh

The newly discovered topological Dirac semimetals host the possibilities of various topological phase transitions through the control of spin-orbit coupling as well as symmetries and dimensionalities. Here, we report a magnetotransport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 S. Nishihaya , M. Uchida , Y. Nakazawa , K. Akiba , M. Kriener , Y. Kozuka , A. Miyake , Y. Taguchi , M. Tokunaga , M. Kawasaki

Two magnetic impurities on the edge of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon strongly interact with each other via indirect coupling, which can be mediated by conducting carriers. By means of Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, we find that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-09 F. M. Hu , Liangzhi Kou , Thomas Frauenheim

An Archimedean screw is a classical pump that exploits the equivalence of rotation and translation in helices. Similarly, a spin spiral texture can pump charge and spin by rotating at a frequency $\omega$. In the present paper, we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Daichi Kurebayashi , Yizhou Liu , Jan Masell , Naoto Nagaosa