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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

Surface plasmons in two-dimensional (2D) electron systems have attracted great attention for their promising light-matter applications. However, the excitation of a surface plasmon, in particular, transverse-electric (TE) surface plasmon,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 H. Y. Yuan , Yaroslav Blanter

The present paper is devoted to the theoretical study of the spectrum of low-frequency electronic density oscillations running along the boundary of two contacting two-dimensional electronic systems in the perpendicular magnetic field. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. I. Mogilyuk

It is known that peculiar plasmons whose frequencies are purely imaginary exist in the interior of a two-dimensional electronic system described by the Drude model. We show that when an external magnetic field is applied to the system,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Ken-ichi Sasaki , Shuichi Murakami , Yasuhiro Tokura , Hideki Yamamoto

Topological insulators exhibit gapless edge or surface states that are topologically protected by time-reversal symmetry. However, several promising candidates for topologically insulating materials (such as Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and HgTe) contain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Arian Vezvaee , Antonio Russo , Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes

Photonic topological insulators are an interesting class of materials whose photonic band structure can have a bandgap in the bulk while supporting topologically protected unidirectional edge modes. Recent studies [1-6] on bianisotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Bo Xiao , Kueifu Lai , Yang Yu , Tzuhsuan Ma , Gennady Shvets , Steven M. Anlage

The search for topological insulators has been actively promoted in the field of condensed matter physics for further development in energy-efficient information transmission and processing. In this context, recent studies have revealed…

We have investigated microwave transmission through the edge of quantum Hall systems by employing a coplanar waveguide (CPW) fabricated on the surface of a GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) wafer. An edge is introduced to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Akira Endo , Keita Koike , Shingo Katsumoto , Yasuhiro Iye

We theoretically demonstrate that dc electron flow across the junction of two-dimensional electron systems leads to excitation of edge magnetoplasmons. The threshold current for such plasmon excitation does not depend on contact effects and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Aleksandr S. Petrov , Dmitry Svintsov

In 2+1D, topological electromagnetic phases are defined as atomic-scale media which host photonic monopoles in the bulk band structure and respect bosonic symmetries. Additionally, they support topologically protected spin-1 edge states,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-05 Todd Van Mechelen , Zubin Jacob

Two-dimensional (2D) topological electronic insulators are known to give rise to gapless edge modes, which underlie low energy dynamics, including electrical and thermal transport. This has been thoroughly investigated in the context of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Udit Khanna , Yuval Gefen , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

Magnetic-edge magnetoplasmons (MEMPs) are obtained for a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) with atop semi-infinite metallic gate, at a distance $d$, and atop semi-infinite ferromagnetic film at a strong perpendicular magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-05 Oleg G. Balev , Ivan A. Larkin

Plasmons, the collective excitations of electrons in the bulk or at the surface, play an important role in the properties of materials, and have generated the field of Plasmonics. We report the observation of a highly unusual acoustic…

A microscopic treatment of edge magnetoplasmons (EMPs) is presented for the case of not-too-low temperatures in which the inequality $k_{B}T\gg \hbar v_{g}/\ell_{0}$, where $v_{g}$ is the group velocity of the edge states and $\ell_{0}$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. G. Balev , Nelson Studart

Topologically protected edge states have been extensively studied in systems characterized by the topological invariants in band gaps (also called line gaps). In this study, we unveil a whole new form of edge states that transcends the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Hongwei Jia , Jing Hu , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Yixin Xiao , Dongyang Wang , Mudi Wang , Shaojie Ma , Xiaoping Ouyang , Yifei Zhu , C. T. Chan

The topological properties of a magnetized cold gaseous plasma have recently been explored and the existence of topologically protected edge states has been established. These studies are limited to a magnetized plasma, where ions are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Roopendra Singh Rajawat , Tianhong Wang , Gennady Shvets

Two-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by gapped bulk states and gapless helical edge states, i.e. time-reversal symmetric edge states accommodating a pair of counter-propagating electrons. An external magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-02 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

Conventional Chern insulators are two-dimensional periodic structures that support unidirectional edge states at the boundary, while the wave propagation in the bulk regions is forbidden. The number of unidirectional edge states is governed…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-22 João C. Serra , Mário G. Silveirinha

We introduce non-Hermitian plasmonic waveguide-cavity systems with topological edge states (TESs) at singular points. The compound unit cells of the structures consist of metal-dielectric-metal (MDM) stub resonators side-coupled to an MDM…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-12 Yin Huang , Yuecheng Shen , Georgios Veronis

The existence of an excitation gap in the bulk spectrum is one of the most prominent fingerprints of topological phases of matter. In this paper, we propose a family of two dimensional Hamiltonians that yield an unusual class $D$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-30 Yuval Baum , Thore Posske , Ion Cosma Fulga , Björn Trauzettel , Ady Stern