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The discovery and realization of topological insulators, a phase of matter which hosts metallic boundary states when the $d$-dimension insulating bulk is confined to ($d-1$)-dimensions, led to several potential applications. Recently, it…

Motivated by the discovery of the quantum anomalous Hall effect in Cr-doped \ce{(Bi,Sb)2Te3} thin films, we study the generic states for magnetic topological insulators and explore the physical properties for both magnetism and itinerant…

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Conventional topological Hall effects (THE) require conducting magnets, leaving insulating systems largely inaccessible. Here we introduce the interfacial topological Hall effect (ITHE), where the noncoplanar spin textures of insulating…

A system with a topological insulator slab sandwiched by two one-dimensional photonic crystals as a defect is investigated. A giant topological magnetoelectric effect is proposed which is characterized by two resonant peaks with half-unit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-26 Peng Wang , Qin Liu , Wei Li , Xunya Jiang

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin textures that their thermal stability originates from the nontrivial topology in nature. Recently, a plethora of topological spin textures have been theoretically predicted or experimentally observed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Yu Li , Yuzhe Zang , Runze Chen , Christoforos Moutafis

Topological spin textures in an itinerant ferromagnet, SrRuO$_3$ is studied combining Hall transport measurements and numerical simulations. We observe characteristic signatures of the Topological Hall Effect associated with skyrmions. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 P. Zhang , A. Das , E. Barts , M. Azhar , L. Si , K. Held , M. Mostovoy , T. Banerjee

We extend the definition of hopfions to include a class of spin-$h$ fields and use this to introduce the electromagnetic and gravitational hopfions of different algebraic types. The fields are constructed through the Penrose contour…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Amy Thompson , Alexander Wickes , Joe Swearngin , Dirk Bouwmeester

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic spin structures exhibiting particle-like behaviour. They are of strong interest from a fundamental viewpoint and for application, where they have potential to act as information carriers in future…

Magnetic skyrmions are highly promising candidates for future spintronic applications such as skyrmion racetrack memories and logic devices. They exhibit exotic and complex dynamics governed by topology and are less influenced by defects,…

Recently, antiferromagnetic (AF) materials have attracted rapid attention, because they are considered as outstanding candidates to replace the widely used ferromagnets in the next generation of spintronics. We propose a magnetoresistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Wei-Tao Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

Topological features - global properties not discernible locally - emerge in systems from liquid crystals to magnets to fractional quantum Hall systems. Deeper understanding of the role of topology in physics has led to a new class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 M. Hafezi , S. Mittal , J. Fan , A. Migdall , J. Taylor

Topological phononic states, facilitating acoustic unique transports immunizing to defects and disorders, have significantly revolutionized our scientific cognition of acoustic wave systems. Up to now, the theoretical and experimental…

Topological transport phenomena in magnetic materials are a major topic of current condensed matter research. One of the most widely studied phenomena is the ``topological Hall effect'' (THE), which is generated via spin-orbit interactions…

Topological phases of electrons such as topological insulators and quantum Hall states typically require strong spin-orbit coupling or magnetic fields. In this study, we consider an electron system coupled to a spin system, where electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-11 Kosuke Fujiwara , Takahiro Morimoto

Strong electronic correlations can produce remarkable phenomena such as metal-insulator transitions and greatly enhance superconductivity, thermoelectricity, or optical non-linearity. In correlated systems, spatially varying charge textures…

Skyrmions are particle-like topological textures that hold great promise for low-power electronics and wave-based functionalities. Yet their utility is hindered by the lack of robust and controllable transport. Here, we show that band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Lei Liu , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

The external controllability of the magnetic properties in topological insulators would be important both for fundamental and practical interests. Here we predict the electric-field control of ferromagnetism in a thin film of insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Topological defects, called magnetic hedgehogs, realize emergent magnetic monopoles, which are not allowed in the ordinary electromagnetism described by Maxwell's equations. Such monopoles were experimentally discovered in magnets in two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-06 Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

The topological surface states of magnetic topological systems, such as Weyl semimetals and axion insulators, are associated with unconventional transport properties such as nonzero or half-quantized surface anomalous Hall effect. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Mingqiang Gu , Jiayu Li , Hongyi Sun , Yufei Zhao , Chang Liu , Jianpeng Liu , Haizhou Lu , Qihang Liu

A magnetic skyrmion isusually refers to a twisted spin texture surrounded by uniformly aligned out-of-plane spinsin the background of a uniformly magnetized state. The invariance of the magnetic skyrmion conserves its topological charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Kyoung-Woong Moon , Jungbum Yoon , Changsoo Kim , Chanyong Hwang