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Skyrmions are topological structures defined by a winding vector configuration that yields a quantized topological charge. In magnetic materials, skyrmions manifest as stable, mobile spin textures, positioning them at the forefront of…

Intensive research has focused on harnessing the potential of graphene for electronic, optoelectronic, and spintronic devices by generating a bandgap at the Dirac point and enhancing the spin-orbit interaction in the graphene layer.…

We introduce a classification of the radial spin textures in momentum space that emerge at high-symmetry points in crystals characterized by non-polar chiral point groups ($D_2$, $D_3$, $D_4$, $D_6$, $T$, $O$). Based on the symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-20 Daniel Gosálbez-Martínez , Alberto Crepaldi , Oleg V. Yazyev

In spin-orbit coupled crystals, symmetries can protect multifold degeneracies with large Chern numbers and Brillouin zone spanning topological surface states. In this work, we explore the extent to which the nontrivial topology of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Mao Lin , Iñigo Robredo , Niels B. M. Schröter , Claudia Felser , Maia G. Vergniory , Barry Bradlyn

We report the observation of a non-trivial spin texture in Dirac node arcs, novel topological objects formed when Dirac cones of massless particles extend along an open one-dimensional line in momentum space. We find that such states are…

The topological properties of massive and massless fermionic quasiparticles have been intensively investigated over the past decade in topological materials without magnetism. Recently, the bosonic analogs of such quasiparticles arising…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-30 Bin Gao , Tong Chen , Chong Wang , Lebing Chen , Ruidan Zhong , Douglas Abernathy , Di Xiao , Pengcheng Dai

Controlling the magnetic order of antiferromagnets is challenging due to their vanishing net magnetization. For this reason, the study of local spin textures in antiferromagnets is restricted by the difficulty in nucleating such states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Miina Leiviskä , Sarah Jenkins , Richard F. L. Evans , Daria Gusakova , Vincent Baltz

Topological spin textures in magnetic materials such as skyrmions and hopfions are interesting manifestations of geometric structures in real materials, concurrently having potential applications as information carriers. In the crystalline…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-15 Temuujin Bayaraa , Sinéad M. Griffin

The presence of both inversion ($P$) and time-reversal ($T$) symmetries in solids leads to a well-known double degeneracy of the electronic bands (Kramers degeneracy). When the degeneracy is lifted, spin textures can be directly observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 H. Nakamura , D. Huang , J. Merz , E. Khalaf , P. Ostrovsky , A. Yaresko , D. Samal , H. Takagi

Collective dynamics of topological magnetic textures can be thought of as a massive particle moving in a magnetic pinning potential. We demonstrate that inside a cavity resonator this effective mechanical system can feel the electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Igor Proskurin , Alexander S. Ovchinnikov , Jun-ichiro Kishine , Robert L. Stamps

Magnetostatic modes supported by a ferromagnetic sphere have been known as the Walker modes, each of which possesses an orbital angular momentum as well as a spin angular momentum along a static magnetic field. The Walker modes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 A. Osada , A. Gloppe , Y. Nakamura , K. Usami

Dirac carriers in graphene are commonly characterized by a pseudospin degree of freedom, arising from the degeneracy of the two inequivalent sublattices. The inherent chirality of the quasiparticles leads to a topologically non-trivial band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Marta Prada

Antiferromagnetic thin films are currently generating considerable excitement for low dissipation magnonics and spintronics. However, while tuneable antiferromagnetic textures form the backbone of functional devices, they are virtually…

We explore the dielectric properties of spinor condensates. Gases with vector (nematic) order, such as spin-1 condensates with ferromagnetic (antiferromagnetic) interactions, display optical activity (birefringence). This optical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Iacopo Carusotto , Erich J. Mueller

Honeycomb lattice can support electronic states exhibiting Dirac energy dispersion, with graphene as the icon. We propose to derive nontrivial topology by grouping six neighboring sites of honeycomb lattice into hexagons and enhancing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Long-Hua Wu , Xiao Hu

In this paper we discuss bimeron pseudo spin textures for double layer quantum hall systems with filling factor $\nu =1$. Bimerons are excitations corresponding to bound pairs of merons and anti-merons. Bimeron solutions have already been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sankalpa Ghosh , R. Rajaraman

Moir\'e magnetism, parallel with moir\'e electronics that has led to novel correlated and topological electronic states, emerges as a new venue to design and control exotic magnetic phases in twisted magnetic two-dimensional(2D) crystals.…

A superposition of spin helices can yield topological spin textures, such as skyrmion and hedgehog lattices. Based on the analogy with the moir\'e in optics, we study the magnetic and topological properties of such superpositions in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-26 Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Metamaterials made of periodic arrangements of electric permittivity and magnetic permeability and arrays of resonators can provide optic properties unexperienced in conventional materials, such as negative refractive index which can be…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-16 Yuan Li , Yong Sun , Weiwei Zhu , Zhiwei Guo , Jun Jiang , Toshikaze Kariyado , Hong Chen , Xiao Hu

A Cm planar photonic material (two-dimensional) including the mirror reflection symmetry is explored where in the Dirac cones appeared at the high-symmetry points of the Brillouin zone boundary. By implementing the specific perturbation on…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 J. Hajivandi , H. Kurt
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