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Finding concrete realizations for topologically nontrivial chiral superconductivity has been a long-standing goal in quantum matter research. Here we propose a route to a systematic realization of chiral superconductivity with nonzero Chern…

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$d$-wave altermagnets possess nearly orthogonal flat Fermi surfaces, which in an idealized limit enable complete spin-channel separation and a theoretical charge-to-spin conversion efficiency (CSE) of 100%. The recently discovered metallic…

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Recent progress in spintronics within the paradigm of altermagnets (AMs) opens new avenues for next-generation electronic device design. Here, we establish a spin-corner locking mechanism that generates second-order topological states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Ning-Jing Yang , Zhigao Huang , Jian-Min Zhang

Half-metallic ferromagnets (HMF) are on one of the most promising materials in the field of spintronics due to their unique band structure consisting of one spin sub-band having metallic characteristics along with another sub-band with…

We apply the self-interaction corrected local spin density %(SIC-LSD) approximation to study the electronic structure and magnetic properties of the spinel ferrites MnFe$_{2}$O$_{4}$, Fe$_{3}$O$_{4}$, CoFe$_{2}$O$_{4}$, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Z. Szotek , W. M. Temmerman , D. Koedderitzsch , A. Svane , L. Petit , H. Winter

Heusler compounds offer potential as spintronic devices due to their spin-polarization and half-metallicity properties, where electron spin-majority (minority) manifold exhibits states (band gap) at the electronic chemical potential,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 Enamullah , D. D. Johnson , K. G. Suresh , Aftab Alam

Superconductivity arising from fully spin-polarized, repulsively interacting electrons can host intrinsically chiral Cooper pairs and Majorana zero modes, yet no concrete microscopic route to such a state has been established. Motivated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-29 Taige Wang , Michael P. Zaletel

High spin Chern-number insulators (HSCI) have emerged as a novel 2D topological phase of condensed matter that is beyond the classification of topological quantum chemistry. In this work, we report the observation of a semimetallic Sb…

Quantum spin Hall insulators hosting edge spin currents hold great potential for low-power spintronic devices. In this paper, we present a universal approach to achieve a high and near-quantized spin Hall conductance plateau within a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-16 Lu Liu , Yuntian Liu , Jiayu Li , Hua Wu , Qihang Liu

The chiral helimagnet, $Cr_{1/3}NbS_{2}$, hosts exotic spin textures, whose influence on the magneto-transport properties, make this material an ideal candidate for future spintronic applications. To date, the interplay between macroscopic…

Despite a plethora of materials suggested for spintronic applications, a new class of materials has emerged, namely spin gapless semiconductors (SGS), that offers potentially more advantageous properties than existing ones. These magnetic…

Hexagonally patterned two-dimensional $p$-type semiconductor systems are quantum simulators of graphene with strong and highly tunable spin-orbit interactions. We show that application of purely in-plane magnetic fields, in combination with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Tommy Li , Oleg P. Sushkov

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge modes of opposite chiralities. To date, experimental studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kaifei Kang , Bowen Shen , Yichen Qiu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

Two-dimensional topological insulators possess two counter propagating edge channels with op- posite spin direction. Recent experimental progress allowed to create ferromagnetic topological insulators realizing a quantum anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 Matthias Götte , Michael Joppe , Thomas Dahm

Spintronics is a rapidly evolving technology that utilizes the spin of electrons along with their charge to enable high speed, low power and non volatile electronic devices. The development of novel materials with tailored magnetic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-25 Ravinder Kumar , Sachin Gupta

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) showing a transport effect with fractionally quantized Hall plateaus emerging under zero magnetic field, provide a radically new opportunity to engineer topological quantum electronics. By construction of…

Topological Surface States (TSS) represent new types of two dimensional electron systems with novel and unprecedented properties distinct from any quantum Hall-like or spin-Hall effects. Their Z$_2$ topological order can be realized at room…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , David Hsieh , L. Andrew Wray , Yuqi Xia

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in a spinful Chern insulator. For weak on-site repulsive interactions at half-filling, the system is a weakly correlated Chern insulator adiabatically connected to the noninteracting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-16 Joseph Maciejko , Andreas Rüegg

The model of Kondo chain with $M$-fold degenerate band of conduction electrons of spin 1/2 interacting with localized spins $S$ is studied for the case when the electronic band is half filled. It is shown that the spectrum of spin…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. M. Tsvelik

Spin-Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs) are promising spintronic devices to realize current controlled GHz frequency signals in nanoscale devices for neuromorphic computing and creating Ising systems. However, traditional SHNOs -- devices based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Haowen Ren , Xin Yu Zheng , Sanyum Channa , Guanzhong Wu , Daisy A. O'Mahoney , Yuri Suzuki , Andrew D. Kent
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