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Spin spirals represent a fundamental class of noncollinear yet coplanar magnetic structures that give rise to diverse emergent phenomena reflecting spin chirality. We investigate metallic systems hosting commensurate spin spirals and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Shun Okumura , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Yukitoshi Motome

Recent theoretical work has established the presence of hidden spin and orbital textures in non-magnetic materials with inversion symmetry. Here, we propose that these textures can be detected by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-11 Jorge Ramírez-Ruiz , Samuel Boutin , Ion Garate

Persistent spin textures (PSTs) in solid-state materials arise from a unidirectional spin-orbit field in momentum space and offer a route to deliver long carrier spin lifetimes sought for future quantum microelectronic devices. Nonetheless,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-06 Xue-Zeng Lu , James M. Rondinelli

Crystal symmetries play an essential role in band structures of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. In this paper, we propose a non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) enforced by nonsymmorphic symmetries. We show that the NHSE inevitably occurs if a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Yutaro Tanaka , Ryo Takahashi , Ryo Okugawa

The centrosymmetric materials with hidden spin polarization are considered to be the promising candidates for realization of energy efficient spintronics systems and devices. However, the control of hidden spin polarization and resulting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Paul C. Lou , W. P. Beyermann , Sandeep Kumar

Exploring continuous time crystals (CTCs) within the symmetric subspace of spin systems has been a subject of intensive research in recent times. Thus far, the stability of the time-crystal phase outside the symmetric subspace in such spin…

Quantum states naturally represent symmetry groups, though often in a projective sense. Intriguingly, the projective nature of crystalline symmetries has remained underexplored until very recently. A series of groundbreaking theoretical and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Chen Zhang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Y. X. Zhao

Spin splittings in III-V materials and heterostructures are of interest because of potential applications, mainly in spintronic devices. A necessary condition for the existence of these spin splittings is the absence of inversion symmetry.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel A Oliveira , Angus MacKinnon

Unconventional magnetism has emerged as a transformative frontier in condensed matter physics. Such phases are characterized by substantial non-relativistic spin splitting (NSS) in symmetry-compensated magnets. They have been classified by…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Xun-Jiang Luo , Dan Li , Rui-Chun Xiao , Ding-Fu Shao , Lei Li , Mingliang Tian , Yugui Yao

We investigated the modulation in the polarization-dependent optical behaviour of the waveguiding plasmonic crystal by varying the illumination and detection geometry. We employed the finite element method-based COMSOL simulation and…

Methods to generate spin-polarised electronic states in non-magnetic solids are strongly desired to enable all-electrical manipulation of electron spins for new quantum devices. This is generally accepted to require breaking global…

The effects of absence of inversion symmetry on superconducting states are investigated theoretically. In particular we focus on the noncentrosymmetric compounds which have the cubic symmetry $O$ like Li$_2$Pt$_3$B. An appropriate and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-04 Chi-Ken Lu , Sungkit Yip

Until recently, spin-polarization in nonmagnetic materials was the exclusive territory of non- centrosymmetric structures. It was recently shown that a form of hidden spin polarization (named the Rashba-2 or R-2 effect) could exist in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Qihang Liu , Xiuwen Zhang , Hosub Jin , Kanber Lam , Jino Im , Arthur J. Freeman , Alex Zunger

The new two-dimensional materials, MoSi$_2$N$_4$ and WSi$_2$N$_4$ are experimentally synthesized successfully and various similar structures are predicted theoretically. Here, we report the electronic properties with a special focus on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-01 Sajjan Sheoran , Deepika Gill , Ankita Phutela , Saswata Bhattacharya

The precise crystal symmetry and hence the emergence of the electric polarization still remains an open question in the multiferroic materials $R$Mn$_2$O$_5$ ($R$ = rare-earth, Bi, Y). While previous diffraction studies have indicated that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-22 N. Narayanan , P. J. Graham , P. Rovillain , J. O'Brien , J. Bertinshaw , S. Yick , J. Hester , A. Maljuk , D. Souptel , B. Büchner , D. Argyriou , C. Ulrich

Finding stimuli capable of driving an imbalance of spin-polarised electrons within a solid is the central challenge in the development of spintronic devices. However, without the aid of magnetism, routes towards this goal are highly…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-08 Oliver J. Clark , Oliver Dowinton , Mohammad Saeed Bahramy , Jaime Sánchez-Barriga

Microscopic symmetries impose strong constraints on the elasticity of a crystalline solid. In addition to the usual spatial symmetries captured by the tensorial character of the elastic tensor, hidden non-spatial symmetries can occur…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-19 Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli

Symmetry-driven wave physics in open systems, exemplified by parity-time (PT) symmetry, has extended the landscape of crystalline phases in materials science to include gain-loss media. Given the growing interest in engineering disorder for…

Disorder in crystals is rarely random, and instead involves local correlations whose presence and nature are hidden from conventional crystallographic probes. This hidden order can sometimes be controlled, but its importance for physical…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-05 Nikolaj Roth , Andrew L. Goodwin

The significance of Mendeleev's periodic table extends beyond the classification of elements; it lies in its remarkable predictive power for discovering new elements and properties, revealing the underlying symmetrical patterns of nature…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-15 Berkay Kilic , Sergio Alvarruiz , Evgenii Barts , Bertjan van Dijk , Paolo Barone , Jagoda Slawinska