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A general scheme for axion electrodynamics is given, in which a surrounding medium of constant permittivity and permeability is assumed. Then, as an application we give simple numerical estimates for the electromagnetic current density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-24 Iver Brevik

In this study, ultrafast optical spectroscopy was employed to elucidate the intricate topological features of EuIn$_2$As$_2$, a promising candidate for a magnetic topological-crystalline axion insulator. Our investigation, focusing on the…

Realizing axion insulator state with a uniform magnetization considerably facilitates experimental explorations of the intriguing topological magnetoelectric effect, a hallmark of three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs). Through…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-11 Y. S. Hou , R. Q. Wu

Topological materials, including topological insulators, magnets with Skyrmions and ferroelectrics with topological vortices, have recently attracted phenomenal attention in the materials science community. Complex patterns of ferroelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 S. C. Chae , Y. Horibe , D. Y. Jeong , N. Lee , K. Iida , M. Tanimura , S. -W. Cheong

Axions and axion-like particles are among the most promising candidates for dark matter and for manifestations of new physics beyond the Standard Model. In the present work, the contribution of axion exchange to the energy of lithium-like…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 R. R. Abdullin , A. V. Volotka , D. A. Glazov , M. G. Kozlov , A. D. Moshkin , D. V. Chubukov

We study parameter space in the axion monodromy inflation corrected by dynamically generated terms involving with the axion. The potential has the linear potential with multiple sinusoidal functions, which play a role in generating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-13 Tetsutaro Higaki , Tatsuo Kobayashi , Osamu Seto , Yuya Yamaguchi

The thermodynamics of an electrically charged, multicomponent fluid with spontaneous electric dipoles and magnetic moments is analysed in the presence of electromagnetic fields. Taking into account the chemical composition of the current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Sylvain D. Brechet , Jean-Philippe Ansermet

We introduce and study a model designed to simultaneously shed light on the mysteries connected with Baryogenesis, Dark Matter and Dark Energy. The model describes a self-interacting complex axion field whose imaginary part, a pseudo-scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-21 Robert Brandenberger , Jürg Fröhlich

The QCD axion was originally predicted as a dynamical solution to the strong CP problem. Axion like particles (ALPs) are also a generic prediction of many high energy physics models including string theory. Theoretical models for axions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-11 David J. E. Marsh

We study interacting classical magnetic and pseudoscalar fields in frames of the axion electrodynamics. A large scale pseudoscalar field can be the coherent superposition of axions or axion like particles. We consider the evolution of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-09 Maxim Dvornikov

Long-standing efforts to detect axions are driven by two compelling prospects, naturally accounting for the absence of charge-conjugation and parity symmetry breaking in quantum chromodynamics, and for the elusive dark matter at ultralight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 Georg Engelhardt , Amit Bhoonah , W. Vincent Liu

One of the major open puzzles in the Standard Model of particle physics is the strong CP problem: although Quantum Chromodynamics allows a CP-violating topological $\theta$-term, experiments constrain its value to be extremely small. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 Gabriel Rouxinol , Tom Magorsch , Jesse J. Osborne , Nora Brambilla , Jad C. Halimeh

We construct an analytic solution to Maxwell's equations that violates global charge conservation, by building on the possibilities demonstrated in [Foundations of Physics 49, 330 (2019)]. The construction is valid for a spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-18 Jonathan Gratus , Paul Kinsler , Martin W. McCall

Light particle-photon mixing in magnetised plasmas plays a vital role in constraining the existence of new physics, especially axions, dark photons, and ultra-high-frequency gravitational waves. Recently, we derived an expression for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-17 J. I. McDonald , P. Millington

The study of topological magnetic excitations has attracted widespread attention in the past few years. In this thesis, I have studied some examples of novel topological magnonic phases/phenomena in low-dimensional quantum magnets. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-17 Dhiman Bhowmick

The 'magnetoelectric effect' arises from the coupling between magnetic and electric properties in materials. The Z2 invariant of topological insulators (TIs) leads to a quantized version of this phenomenon, known as the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Di Xiao , Jue Jiang , Jae-Ho Shin , Wenbo Wang , Fei Wang , Yi-Fan Zhao , Chaoxing Liu , Weida Wu , Moses H. W. Chan , Nitin Samarth , Cui-Zu Chang

We discuss physical properties of `integer' topological phases of bosons in D=3+1 dimensions, protected by internal symmetries like time reversal and/or charge conservation. These phases invoke interactions in a fundamental way but do not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-14 Ashvin Vishwanath , T. Senthil

An axion insulator is a three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI), in which the bulk maintains the time-reversal symmetry or inversion symmetry but the surface states are gapped by surface magnetization. The axion insulator state…

In this review, We discussed the theoretical foundation and experimental discovery of different topological electronic states of material in condensed matter. At first, we briefly reviewed the conventional electronic states, which have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Arnab Kumar Pariari

The axion has emerged in recent years as a leading particle candidate to provide the mysterious dark matter in the cosmos, as we review here for a general scientific audience. We describe first the historical roots of the axion in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-18 Francesca Chadha-Day , John Ellis , David J. E. Marsh