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Since longitudinal spin-spin interaction is ubiquitous in magnetic materials, it is very interesting to explore the interplay between topology and longitudinal spin-spin interaction. Here, we examine the role of longitudinal spin-spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Wenjie Liu , Yongguan Ke , Zhoutao Lei , Chaohong Lee

We study the plasmon excitations and the electromagnetic response of the magnetically doped single layer and multilayer of ``helical metals'', which emerge at the surfaces of topological insulators. For the single layer case, we find a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Fei Ye , Chaoxing Liu

We discuss plasmonic excitations in a thin slab of a topological insulators. In the limit of no hybridization of the surface states and same electronic density of the two layers, the electrostatic coupling between the top and bottom layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 T. Stauber , G. Gómez-Santos , L. Brey

Photonic crystal topological insulators host protected states at their edges. In the band structure these edge states appear as continuous bands crossing the photonic band gap. They allow light to propagate unidirectionally and without…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Gleb Siroki , Paloma Arroyo Huidobro , Vincenzo Giannini

Sharp metal corners and tips support plasmons localized on the scale of the curvature radius -- superlocalized plasmons. We analyze plasmonic properties of nanoparticles with small and sharp corner- and tip-shaped surface perturbations in…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-20 M. V. Gorkunov , B. I. Sturman , E. V. Podivilov

The electrons in the edge channels of two-dimensional topological insulators can be described as a helical Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid. They couple to nuclear spins embedded in the host materials through the hyperfine interaction, and are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Chen-Hsuan Hsu , Peter Stano , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

The twig edge states in graphene-like structures are viewed as the fourth states complementary to their zigzag, bearded, and armchair counterparts. In this work, we study a rod-in-plasma system in honeycomb lattice with twig edge truncation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Jianfei Li , Jingfeng Yao , Ying Wang , Zhongxiang Zhou , Zhihao Lan , Chengxun Yuan

We consider periodic arrangements of metal nanostructures and study the effect of periodicity on the localised surface plasmon resonance of the structures within an electrostatic eigenmode approximation. We show that within this limit, the…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-16 Daniel E. Gomez , Yongsop Hwang , Jiao Lin , Timothy J. Davis , Ann Roberts

We study the properties of one-dimensional topological superconductors under the influence of generic boundary conditions mimicking the coupling with external environments. We identify a general four-parameters classification of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 A. Maiellaro , F. Romeo , F. Illuminati

The surface of a topological insulator hosts Dirac electronic states with the spin-momentum locking, which constrains spin orientation perpendicular to electron momentum. As a result, collective plasma excitations in the interacting Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Mehdi Kargarian

In this paper, we investigate the band properties of 2D honeycomb plasmonic lattices consisting of metallic nanoparticles. By means of the coupled dipole method and quasi-static approximation, we theoretically analyze the band structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Li Wang , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Meng Xiao , Dezhuan Han , C. T. Chan , Weijia Wen

We study the properties of edge plasmons in two-component electron liquids in the presence of pseudomagnetic fields, which have opposite signs for the two different electronic populations and therefore preserve the time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Alessandro Principi , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Giovanni Vignale

The topological phases of graphene with spin-orbit coupling, an exchange field, and a staggered-sublattice potential determine the properties of the edge states of the zigzag nanoribbon. In the presence of the Hubbard interaction, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Ma Luo

Magnetic excitation in a spin dimer system on a bilayer honeycomb lattice is investigated in the presence of a zigzag edge, where disordered and ordered phases can be controlled by a quantum phase transition. In analogy with the case of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-17 Ryo Sakaguchi , Masashige Matsumoto

We demonstrate a non-Hermitian topological effect that is characterized by having complex eigenvalues only in the edge states of a topological material, despite the fact that the material is completely uniform. Such an effect can be…

Quantum spin Hall insulators are characterized by topologically protected counterpropagating edge states. Here we study the dynamical response of these helical edge states under a time-dependent flux biasing, in the presence of a heat bath.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Doru Sticlet , Jérôme Cayssol

We investigate the emergence of helical edge modes in a Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice, driven by a topological mechanism similar to that proposed by Dong et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 206701 (2023)] for chiral spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-23 Bastian Pradenas , Grigor Adamyan , Oleg Tchernyshyov

Topological states of matter are robust quantum phases, characterised by propagating or localised edge states in an insulating bulk. Topological boundary states can be triggered by various mechanisms, for example by strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 S. E. Freeney , J. J. van den Broeke , A. J. J. Harsveld van der Veen , I. Swart , C. Morais Smith

Coulomb interaction has important consequences on the physics of quantum spin Hall edge states, weakening the topological protection via two-particle scattering and renormalizing both the velocity and charge of collective plasmon modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Alexandre Gourmelon , Hiroshi Kamata , Jean-Marc Berroir , Gwendal Fève , Bernard Plaçais , Erwann Bocquillon

Three-dimensional topological insulators are a class of Dirac materials, wherein strong spin-orbit coupling leads to two-dimensional surface states. The latter feature spin-momentum locking, i.e., each momentum vector is associated with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Paul Seifert , Kristina Vaklinova , Sergey Ganichev , Klaus Kern , Marko Burghard , Alexander W. Holleitner