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Antiferromagnetic skyrmion crystals are magnetic phases predicted to exist in antiferromagnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. Their spatially periodic noncollinear magnetic texture gives rise to topological bulk magnon bands…

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The phase transition driven by electron correlations in a Chern insulator is investigated within the dynamical mean-field theory. The Chern insulator is described by the Haldane model and the electron correlations are incorporated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-25 Hong-Son Nguyen , Minh-Tien Tran

The universality of electric charge as a quantum number allows thermoelectric properties to manifest across diverse systems, starting from a hot quantum chromodynamic matter in heavy-ion collisions at a high energy scale to semiconductors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Kamaljeet Singh , Kshitish Kumar Pradhan , Raghunath Sahoo

We theoretically study magnetic and topological properties of antiferromagnetic kagome spin systems in the presence of both in- and out-of-plane Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. In materials such as the iron jarosites, the in-plane…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Pontus Laurell , Gregory A. Fiete

Topological magnon insulators are a new class of magnetic materials that possess topologically nontrivial magnon bands. As a result, magnons in these materials display properties analogous to those of electrons in topological insulators.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-22 R. Chisnell , J. S. Helton , D. E. Freedman , D. K. Singh , F. Demmel , C. Stock , D. G. Nocera , Y. S. Lee

In this work, we study topological properties of magnons via creating spin excitations in both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets in presence of an external magnetic field on a two-dimensional square lattice. It is known that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Shreya Debnath , Saurabh Basu

A number of topological phases are found to emerge in the ferromagnetic Kitaev-Heisenberg model on CaVO lattice in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Heisenberg and Kitaev terms have been considered on nearest and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-05 Moumita Deb , Asim Kumar Ghosh

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-16 Chao-Kai Li , Xu-Ping Yao , Gang Chen

Spin-momentum locking in protected surface states enables efficient electrical detection of magnon decay at a magnetic-insulator/topological-insulator heterojunction. Here we demonstrate this property using the spin Seebeck effect, i.e.…

Axion electrodynamics, first proposed in the context of particle physics, manifests itself in condensed matter physics in the topological field theory description of 3d topological insulators and gives rise to magnetoelectric effect, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Imam Makhfudz

Chern insulators exhibit fascinating properties which originate from the topologically nontrivial state characterized by the Chern number. How these properties change if the system is quenched between topologically distinct phases has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Michael Schüler , Philipp Werner

Achieving control over magnon spin currents in insulating magnets - where dissipation due to Joule heating is highly suppressed - is an active area of research that could lead to energy-efficient spintronics applications. However, magnon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-04 Sebastian A. Diaz , Tomoki Hirosawa , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We investigate topological states of two-dimensional (2D) triangular lattices with multi-orbitals. Tight-binding model calculations of a 2D triangular lattice based on $\emph{p}_{x}$ and \emph{p}_{y} orbitals exhibit very interesting doubly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Jiayong Zhang , Bao Zhao , Yang Xue , Tong Zhou , Zhongqin Yang

We consider one-dimensional topological insulators hosting fractionally charged midgap states in the presence and absence of induced superconductivity pairing. Under the protection of a discrete symmetry, relating positive and negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-26 Doru Sticlet , Luis Seabra , Frank Pollmann , Jérôme Cayssol

Topological states of matter are peculiar quantum phases showing different edge and bulk transport properties connected by the bulk-boundary correspondence. While non-interacting fermionic topological insulators are well established by now…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-18 M. Di Liberto , A. Hemmerich , C. Morais Smith

When a ferromagnet is deposited on the surface of a topological insulator the topologically protected surface state develops a gap and becomes a 2-dimensional quantum Hall liquid. We demonstrate that the Hall current in such a liquid,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Ion Garate , M. Franz

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is the best studied physical platform featuring moire potential induced narrow bands with non-trivial topology and strong electronic correlations. Despite their significance, the Chern insulating states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Xiaoyu Wang , Oskar Vafek

Recent experimental advances have uncovered fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states in twisted MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) systems under zero magnetic field. Understanding the interaction effects on topological phases within realistic model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-03 Jialin Chen , Qiaoyi Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Wei Li

Topological metamaterials exhibit unusual behaviors at their boundaries, such as unidirectional chiral waves, that are protected by a topological feature of their band structure. The ability to tune such a material through a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Noah P. Mitchell , Lisa M. Nash , William T. M. Irvine

Topological insulators are characterized by the presence of gapless surface modes protected by time-reversal symmetry. In three space dimensions the magnetoelectric response is described in terms of a bulk theta term for the electromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Brian Swingle , Maissam Barkeshli , John McGreevy , T. Senthil