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The axion electromagnetic anomaly induces an oscillating electric dipole for {\em any} static magnetic dipole. Static electric dipoles do not produce oscillating magnetic moments. This is a low energy theorem which is a consequence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-01 Christopher T. Hill

Topological superconductors are gapped superconductors with gapless and topologically robust quasiparticles propagating on the boundary. In this paper, we present a topological field theory description of three-dimensional time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-29 Xiao-Liang Qi , Edward Witten , Shou-Cheng Zhang

It has been suggested that certain antiferromagnetic topological insulators contain axion quasiparticles (AQs), and that such materials could be used to detect axion dark matter (DM). The AQ is a longitudinal antiferromagnetic spin…

One of the hallmarks of time-reversal-symmetric topological insulators in three dimensions is the topological magnetoelectric effect (TME). So far, a time-reversal breaking variant of this effect has attracted much attention, in the sense…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Heinrich-Gregor Zirnstein , Bernd Rosenow

Despite the prospect of next-generation electronic technologies has spurred the investigation of the remarkable topological magnetoelectric response, it remains largely unexplored its potential in the application of basic electronic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Antonio A. Valido , Alejandro J. Castro

Topology, as a mathematical concept, has been introduced into condensed matter physics since the discovery of quantum Hall effect, which characterizes new physical scenario beyond the Landau theory. The topologically protected physical…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Ying Zhou , Ziwen Wang , Fan Wang , Haoshen Ye , Shuai Dong

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

We study theoretically the interplay between magnetism and topology in three-dimensional HgTe/MnTe superlattices stacked along the (001) axis. Our results show the evolution of the magnetic topological phases with respect to the magnetic…

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

The axion is a highly motivated elementary particle which could address two fundamental questions in physics - the strong CP problem and the dark matter mystery. Experimental searches for this hypothetical particle have started to reach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-28 Yannis K. Semertzidis , SungWoo Youn

Magnetic topological materials represent a class of compounds whose properties are strongly influenced by the topology of the electronic wavefunctions coupled with the magnetic spin configuration. Such materials can support chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 B. Andrei Bernevig , Claudia Felser , Haim Beidenkopf

Topological states of quantum matter have attracted great attention in condensed matter physics and materials science. The study of time-reversal-invariant (TRI) topological states in quantum materials has made tremendous progress in both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Dongqin Zhang , Minji Shi , Tongshuai Zhu , Dingyu Xing , Haijun Zhang , Jing Wang

We propose a mechanism for the generation of a magnetic field in the early universe during the QCD crossover assuming that dark matter is made of axions. Thermoelectric fields arise at pressure gradients in the primordial plasma due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Francesco Miniati , Gianluca Gregori , Brian Reville , Subir Sarkar

We present a connection between two known solutions to the strong-CP problem: the standard introduction of axions and the extra-dimensional one, relying on topological arguments. Using an equivalent lower-dimensional set-up with a warped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-13 Yannis Burnier , Florian Kuhnel

Starting from the theory of Axion Electrodynamics, we work out the axionic modifications to the electromagnetic Casimir energy using the Green's function, both when the axion field is initially assumed purely time-dependent and when the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Amedeo M. Favitta , Iver Brevik , Masud Chaichian

We extend the Einstein-Maxwell-axion theory including into the Lagrangian cross-terms of the dynamo-optical type, which are quadratic in the Maxwell tensor, linear in the covariant derivative of the macroscopic velocity four-vector, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexander B. Balakin , Timur Yu. Alpin

In the presence of axion dark matter, fermion spins experience an "axion wind" torque and an "axioelectric" force. We investigate new experimental probes of these effects and find that magnetized analogs of multilayer dielectric haloscopes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-11 Asher Berlin , Alexander J. Millar , Tanner Trickle , Kevin Zhou

Topology, a well-established concept in mathematics, has nowadays become essential to describe condensed matter. At its core are chiral electron states on the bulk, surfaces and edges of the condensed matter systems, in which spin and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-13 Claudia Felser , Johannes Gooth

Axions and axion like particles in general are consequences of the extensions of the standard model in particle physics. Axions have been proposed as hypothetical pseudo-scalar particles in particle physics to solve the strong Charge-Parity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-15 K K Singh