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We propose an experiment for directly constructing and locally probing topologically entangled states of superconducting vortices which can be performed with present-day technology. Calculations using an elastic string vortex model indicate…

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Inspired by the newly emergent valleytronics, great interest has been attracted to the topological valley transport in classical metacrystals. The presence of nontrivial domain-wall states is interpreted with a concept of valley Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Xiying Fan , Tianzhi Xia , Huahui Qiu , Qicheng Zhang , Chunyin Qiu

Valley-based topological phases offer a wealth of exotic quantum states with tunable functionalities, driven by the valley degree of freedom. In this work, by constructing heterostructures of germanene (silicene, stanene) on various…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-09 Xiyu Hong , Zhe Li

Magnetic vortices are characterized by the senses of in-plane magnetization chirality and by the polarity of the vortex core. The electrical control of vortex polarity and chirality is highly demanded not only for fundamental understanding…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-05 Y. M. Luo , Y. Z. Wu , C. Q. Yu , H. Li , J. H. Wen , L. Y. Zhu , Z. H. Qian , T. J. Zhou

The recent discovery of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) has significantly extended our understanding of topological phases of matter. Here, we predict that second-order corner states can emerge in the dipolar-coupled dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Z. -X. Li , Yunshan Cao , X. R. Wang , Peng Yan

Magnetic vortices and skyrmions represent two fundamental classes of topological spin textures in ferromagnetic systems, distinguished by their unique stabilization mechanisms and degrees of freedom. Vortices, characterized by circular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Haobing Zhang , Xintao Fan , Weiwei Wang

Twisted, or vortex, particles refer to freely propagating non-plane-wave states with helicoidal wave fronts. In this state, the particle possesses a non-zero orbital angular momentum with respect to its average propagation direction.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Igor P. Ivanov , Nikolai Korchagin , Alexandr Pimikov , Pengming Zhang

Phonons and magnons are engineered by periodic potential landscapes in phononic and magnonic crystals, and their combined studies may enable valley phonon transport tunable by the magnetic field. Through nonreciprocal surface acoustic wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Liyang Liao , Jorge Puebla , Kei Yamamoto , Junyeon Kim , Sadamichi Meakawa , Yunyoung Hwang , You Ba , Yoshichika Otani

Thanks to the 9 contacts deposited on the surface of a high quality YBCO twinned single crystal, we investigate both vortex guided motion along twins and the mixed state Hall effect. Firstly, we clearly identify the vortex phase transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 Vincent Berseth

In this Letter, we predict a structural phase transition unique to chiral crystals with screw symmetry. In chiral crystals, the phonon frequency renormalized by the electron-phonon coupling depends on the handedness of circular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Shun Asano , Youichi Yanase

The Valley Hall effect provides a popular route to engineer robust waveguides for bosonic excitations such a photons and phonons. The almost complete absence of backscattering in many experiments has its theoretical underpinning in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Tirth Shah , Florian Marquardt , Vittorio Peano

Valley Hall effect is fundamental to valleytronics and provides a promising avenue for advancing information technology. While conventional valley Hall effect requires the inversion symmetry breaking, the recently proposed nonlinear valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Ruijing Fang , Jie Zhang , Zhichao Zhou , Xiao Li

Spin-valley coupling in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides gives rise to valley polarization and coherence effect, limited by intervalley scattering caused by exciton-phonon, exciton-impurity, and electron-hole exchange interaction…

Underpinning the field of "valleytronics" is the coupling of the helicity of circularly polarized light to the valley degree of freedom, and this remains the only known lightform to exhibit this remarkable effect. Here we show that on…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-29 S. Sharma , P. Elliott , S. Shallcross

Two-leg bosonic ladders with flux harbor a remarkable vortex-hole duality between the weak-coupling vortex lattice superfluids and strong-coupling charge-density-wave crystals. The strong-coupling crystalline states, which are realized in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-23 S. Greschner , T. Vekua

The current understanding of chirality suggests the existence of a connection between structure and angular momentum, including spin. This is particularly emphasised in the chiral induced spin selectivity effect, where chiral structures act…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 J. Fransson

We design and implement a three dimensional acoustic Weyl metamaterial hosting robust modes bound to a one-dimensional topological lattice defect. The modes are related to topological features of the bulk bands, and carry nonzero orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-24 Qiang Wang , Yong Ge , Hong-xiang Sun , Haoran Xue , Ding Jia , Yi-jun Guan , Shou-qi Yuan , Baile Zhang , Yidong Chong

Spin polarization provides a novel probe of the rotational properties of the quark-gluon plasma formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. This work investigates the equation of state, particularly its transport and thermodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 De-Xian Wei

We study valley-dependent spin transport theoretically in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides in which a variety of spin and valley physics are expected because of spin-valley coupling. The results show that the spins are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Yuya Ominato , Junji Fujimoto , Mamoru Matsuo

We theoretically investigate spin-valley-locked tunneling transport in a transition-metal dichalcogenide/ferromagnetic-insulator heterostructure under a perpendicular magnetic field, driven by the spin Seebeck effect. We demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Xin Hu , Yuya Ominato , Mamoru Matsuo