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Topological magnon insulators are the bosonic analogs of electronic topological insulators. They are manifested in magnetic materials with topologically nontrivial magnon bands as realized experimentally in a quasi-two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-13 S. A. Owerre

In the last decades, collinear magnetic insulating systems have emerged as promising energy-saving information carriers. Their elementary collective spin excitations, i.e., magnons, can propagate for long distances bypassing the Joule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Benedetta Flebus

The studies of topological insulators and topological semimetals have been at frontiers of condensed matter physics and material science. Both classes of materials are characterized by robust surface states created by the topology of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-10 Wei Ning , Zhiqiang Mao

Topological phases are characterised by a topological invariant that remains unchanged by deformations in the Hamiltonian. Materials exhibiting topological phases include topological insulators, superconductors exhibiting strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Dimitrie Culcer , Attila Geresdi

Competing ground states may lead to topologically constrained excitations such as domain walls or quasiparticles, which govern metastable states and their dynamics. Domain walls and more exotic topological excitations are well studied in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Carl Merrigan , Cristiano Nisoli , Yair Shokef

Topological insulators insulate in the bulk but exhibit robust conducting edge states protected by the topology of the bulk material. Here, we design a colloidal topological insulator and demonstrate experimentally the occurrence of edge…

It has been recently shown that in the Heisenberg (anti)ferromagnet on the honeycomb lattice, the magnons (spin wave quasipacticles) realize a massless two-dimensional (2D) Dirac-like Hamiltonian. It was shown that the Dirac magnon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-21 S. A. Owerre

Various topological phases, including topological insulators, topological semimetals, and topological superconductors, along with the controllable topological phase transitions, have attracted considerable attention due to their promising…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-28 Bo-Xuan Li , Ziyin Song , Zhong Fang , Zhijun Wang , Hongming Weng

Topological phases, including the conventional first-order and higher-order topological insulators and semimetals, have emerged as a thriving topic in the fields of condensed-matter physics and material science. Usually, a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Yating Yang , Jiuyang Lu , Mou Yan , Xueqin Huang , Weiyin Deng , Zhengyou Liu

We present a unified framework to systematically embed complex knotted and linked structures, beyond the torus family, into diverse topological phases, including Hopf insulators, classical spin liquids, topological semimetals, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-27 Snigdh Sabharwal

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

Elastic wave manipulation is important in a wide variety of scales in applications including information processing in tiny elastic devices and noise control in big solid structures. The recent emergence of topological materials opens a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-05 Ying Wu , Jiuyang Lu , Xueqin Huang , Yating Yang , Li Luo , Linyun Yang , Feng Li , Weiyin Deng , Zhengyou Liu

The stacking of intrinsically magnetic van der Waals materials provides a fertile platform to explore tunable transport effects of magnons, presenting significant prospects for spintronic applications. The possibility of having…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Zhi-Xing Lin , Shu Zhang

The discovery of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators more than a decade ago has revolutionized modern condensed matter physics. Today, the field of topological states of matter is one of the most active and fruitful…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-24 Stephan Rachel

The intrinsic non-linearities of the spin dynamics in condensed matter systems give rise to a rich phenomenology that can be strongly affected by topology. Here we study formation of magnonic solitons in the topologically nontrivial bandgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Mehrdad Elyasi , Koji Sato , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The emergent higher-order topological insulators significantly deepen our understanding of topological physics. Recently, the study has been extended to topological semimetals featuring gapless bulk band nodes. To date, higherorder nodal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-30 Huahui Qiu , Yuzeng Li , Qicheng Zhang , Chunyin Qiu

Inducing long-range magnetic order in three-dimensional topological insulators can gap the Diraclike metallic surface states, leading to exotic new phases such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect or the axion insulator state. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-20 Semonti Bhattacharyya , Golrokh Akhgar , Matt Gebert , Julie Karel , Mark T Edmonds , Michael S Fuhrer

The discovery of the topological insulators has fueled a surge of interests in the topological phases in periodic systems. Topological insulators have bulk energy gap and topologically protected gapless edge states. The edge states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Yi-Dong Wu

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter in which surface states residing in the bulk insulating gap are protected by time-reversal symmetry. When a proper kind of antiferromagnetic long range order is established in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jing Wang , Rundong Li , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Xiao-Liang Qi

Spin waves (magnons) in 2D materials have received increasing interest due to their unique states and potential for tunability. However, many interesting features of these systems, including Dirac points and topological states, occur at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Bobby Kaman , Jinho Lim , Yingkai Liu , Axel Hoffmann