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As a fundamental type of topological spin textures in two-dimensional (2D) magnets, a magnetic meron carries half-integer topological charge and forms a pair with its antithesis to keep the stability in materials. However, it is challenging…

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We develop an analytic formalism to describe dipole radiation near the Dirac cone of a two-dimensional photonic crystal slab. In contrast to earlier work, we account for all polarization effects and derive a closed-form expression for the…

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The interplay between spin wave and magnetic texture represents the information exchange between the fast and slow dynamical parts of magnetic systems. Here we formulate a set of magnonic torques acting on background magnetic texture, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Jin Lan , Hanxu Ai

Vortex, the winding of a vector field in two dimensions, has its core the field singularity and its topological charge defined by the quantized winding angle of the vector field. Vortices are one of the most fundamental topological…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-08 Yiwen Zhang , Ang Chen , Wenzhe Liu , Chia Wei Hsu , Fang Guan , Xiaohan Liu , Lei Shi , Ling Lu , Jian Zi

We predict the occurrence of metastable skyrmionic spin structures such as antiskyrmions and higher-order skyrmions in ultra-thin transition-metal films at surfaces using Monte Carlo simulations based on a spin Hamiltonian parametrized from…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-22 Bertrand Dupé , Christian N. Kruse , Tobias Dornheim , Stefan Heinze

Multilayer stacks of twisted optical metasurfaces are considered as a prospective platform for chiral nanophotonic devices. Such structures are primarily used for the realization of circularly polarized light sources, artificial optical…

We demonstrate that strong-field ionization of atoms in circularly polarized laser fields generates a photoelectron spin texture with toroidal topology in momentum space. Using time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation simulations,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Xiaodan Mao , Feng He , Pei-Lun He

Photonic spin texture (PST), the spatial distribution of the spin angular momentum (SAM) of light, is connected to unique properties of light, such as optical skyrmions and topological optical N-invariants. There has been recent progress on…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-26 Shoaib Mahmud , Wei Zhang , Farid Kalhor , Pronoy Das , Zubin Jacob

The chiral crystal is characterized by a lack of mirror symmetry and an inversion center, resulting in the inequivalent right- and left-handed structures. In the noncentrosymmetric crystal structure, the spin and momentum of electrons are…

As widely studied topological singularities, bound states in the continuum (BICs) have revealed rich physical properties through their momentum-space topology. Here, we reveal and experimentally demonstrate that magnetically induced chiral…

The motion of a relativistic particle is linked to its spin by the Dirac equation. Remarkably, electrons in two-dimensional materials can mimic such Dirac particles but must always appear in pairs of opposite spin chirality. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Kenjiro K. Gomes , Wonhee Ko , Warren Mar , Yulin Chen , Zhi-Xun Shen , Hari C. Manoharan

The presence of an exchange field in topological insulators reveals novel spin related phenomena derived from the combination of topology and magnetism. In the present work we show the controlled occurrence of either metallic or gapped…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-12 Hugo Aramberri , M. Carmen Muñoz

Topological polar textures in ferroelectrics have attracted significant interest for their potential for energy-efficient and high-density data storage and processing. Among these, polar merons and antimerons are predicted in strained and…

Topological insulators are characterized by Dirac cone surface states with electron spins aligned in the surface plane and perpendicular to their momenta. Recent theoretical and experimental work implied that this specific spin texture…

Understanding and control of spin degrees of freedom on the surfaces of topological materials are key to future applications as well as for realizing novel physics such as the axion electrodynamics associated with time-reversal (TR)…

Chiral spin textures are researched widely in condensed matter systems and show potential for spintronics and storage applications. Along with extensive condensed-matter studies of chiral spin textures, photonic counterparts of these…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-14 Peng Shi , Luping Du , Mingjie Li , Xiaocong Yuan

Three-dimensional topological semimetals come in different variants, either containing Weyl points or Dirac lines. Here we describe a more complicated momentum-space topological defect where several separate Dirac lines connect with each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 T. Hyart , T. T. Heikkila

Various noncollinear spin textures and magnetic phases have been predicted in twisted two-dimensional CrI$_3$ due to competing ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) interlayer exchange from moir\'e stacking - with potential…

The generation of topologically non-trivial magnetic configurations has been a pivotal topic in both basic and applied nanomagnetism research. Localized non-coplanar magnetic defects such as skyrmions or merons were found to interact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Reiner Brüning , Levente Rózsa , Roberto Lo Conte , André Kubetzka , Roland Wiesendanger , Kirsten von Bergmann

Spatial, momentum and energy separation of electronic spins in condensed matter systems guides the development of novel devices where spin-polarized current is generated and manipulated. Recent attention on a set of previously overlooked…