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Topological acoustic and elastic waves have recently emerged as an exciting interdisciplinary field which is still mainly focused on low-dimensional structures and model systems. Here we demonstrate numerically an elastic-wave analogue of…

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We theoretically study the emergence of topological magnons in electron-magnon coupled systems. The magnon dispersion in a ferromagnet usually possesses an effective time reversal symmetry in the absence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-02 Kosuke Fujiwara , Takahiro Morimoto

Topological excitations in magnetically ordered systems have attracted much attention lately. We report on topological magnon bands in ferromagnetic Shastry-Sutherland lattices whose edge modes can be put to use in magnonic devices. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-16 M. Malki , G. S. Uhrig

The multiferroic ferrimagnet Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$ with a chiral crystal structure attracted a lot of recent attention due to the emergence of magnetic skyrmion order in this material. Here, the topological properties of its magnon excitations are…

Nontrivial topological structures offer rich playground in condensed matter physics including fluid dynamics, superconductivity, and ferromagnetism, and they promise alternative device configurations for post-Moore spintronics and…

Recently published discoveries of acoustic and optical mode inversion in the phonon spectrum of certain metals became the first realistic example of non-interacting topological bosonic excitations in existing materials. However, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-21 Sobhit Singh , QuanSheng Wu , Changming Yue , Aldo H. Romero , Alexey A. Soluyanov

Magnon polarons are novel elementary excitations possessing hybrid magnonic and phononic signatures, and are responsible for many exotic spintronic and magnonic phenomena. Despite long-term sustained experimental efforts in chasing for…

To realize band structures with non-trivial topological properties in an optical lattice is an exciting topic in current studies on ultra cold atoms. Here we point out that this lofty goal can be achieved by using a simple scheme of shaking…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-18 Shao-Liang Zhang , Qi Zhou

Magnon-phonon hybrid excitations are studied theoretically in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet with an easy axis normal to the plane. We show that two magnon bands and one phonon band are intertwined by the magnetoelastic coupling through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Shu Zhang , Gyungchoon Go , Kyung-Jin Lee , Se Kwon Kim

Spin liquids are exotic quantum states characterized by the existence of fractional and deconfined quasiparticle excitations, referred to as spinons and visons. Their fractional nature establishes topological properties such as a protected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-20 Jonas Sonnenschein , Johannes Reuther

The richness in both the dispersion and energy of antiferromagnetic magnons has spurred the magnetism community to consider antiferromagnets for future spintronic/magnonic applications. However, the excitation and control of…

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

We propose a mechanism of topology-induced symmetry breaking, where certain local symmetry preserved by the Hamiltonian is explicitly broken in the eigenmodes of excitation due to nontrivial real-space topology. We demonstrate this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Kuangyin Deng , Ran Cheng

Exploring the synergy between topological physics and nonlinear dynamics unveils profound insights into emergent states of matter. Inspired by recent experimental demonstrations of topological frequency combs in photonics, we theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Zhixiong Li , Xuejuan Liu , Zhejunyu Jin , Guanghua Guo , Xingen Zheng , Peng Yan

Spin inertia has been demonstrated to give rise to high-frequency nutational excitations beyond the conventional low-frequency precessional modes. Here, we demonstrate that the hybridization between precessional and nutational magnons may…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-01 Subhadip Ghosh , Mikhail Cherkasskii , Ritwik Mondal , Alexander Mook , Levente Rózsa

Emergent topological phenomena in multiferroic materials arise from the intricate coupling between structural, electric, and magnetic order parameters. Hexagonal manganites provide a paradigmatic platform for such studies. These compounds…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-16 Aaron Merlin Müller , Lukas Heckendorn , Manfred Fiebig , Thomas Lottermoser

Conventional magnonic devices use three classes of magnetostatic waves that require detailed manipulation of magnetization structure that makes the design and the device/circuitry scalability difficult tasks. Here, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 X. S. Wang , H. W. Zhang , X. R. Wang

The experimental observation of topological magnon bands and thermal Hall effect in a kagom\'e lattice ferromagnet Cu(1-3, bdc) has inspired the search for topological magnon effects in various insulating ferromagnets that lack an inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 S. A. Owerre

Spin-triplet $p$-wave superconductors are promising candidates for topological superconductors. They have been proposed in various heterostructures where a material with strong spin-orbit interaction is coupled to a conventional $s$-wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-03 Yung-Yeh Chang , Khoe Van Nguyen , Kuang-Lung Chen , Yen-Wen Lu , Chung-Yu Mou , Chung-Hou Chung

Non-Hermitian systems have been discussed mostly in the context of open systems and nonequilibrium. Recent experimental progress is much from optical, cold-atomic, and classical platforms due to the vast tunability and clear identification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa