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Topological insulators are crystalline materials that have revolutionized our ability to control wave transport. They provide us with unidirectional channels that are immune to obstacles, defects or local disorder, and can even survive some…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Zhe Zhang , Pierre Delplace , Romain Fleury

Equilibrium properties and localised magnon excitations are investigated in topologically distinct skyrmionic textures. The observed shape of the structures and their orientation on the lattice is explained based on their vorticities and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Levente Rózsa , Markus Weißenhofer , Ulrich Nowak

We theoretically show that the Kitaev interaction generates a novel class of spin texture in the excitation spectrum of the antiferromagnetic insulator found in the Kitaev-Heisenberg-$\Gamma$ model. In conducting electronic systems, there…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-07 Masataka Kawano , Chisa Hotta

Friction-induced energy dissipation impedes the performance of nanoscale devices during their relative motion. Nevertheless, an ingeniously designed structure which utilizes graphene topping can tune the friction force signal by inducing…

Magnetic skyrmion bags, as high-order topological swirling spin textures, offer rich fundamental physics and distinct advantages for spintronic applications; however, their realization remains a formidable challenge, especially in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Junhuang Yang , Kaiying Dou , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

Periodic structures can be engineered to exhibit unique properties observed at symmetry points, such as zero group velocity, Dirac cones and saddle points; identifying these, and the nature of the associated modes, from a direct reading of…

Metamaterials and metasurfaces are at the pinnacle of wave propagation engineering, yet their design has thus far been mainly focused on deep-subwavelength periodicities, practically forming an effective medium. Such an approach overlooks…

Metamaterials and metasurfaces are designed by periodically arranged subwavelength geometries, allowing a tailored manipulation of the electromagnetic response of matter. Here, we exploit temporal variations of permittivity inside…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Nader Engheta

Magnetic structures are known to possess magnon excitations confined to their surfaces and interfaces, but these spatially localized modes are often not resolved in spectroscopy experiments. We develop a theory to calculate the confined…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-22 Seamus Beairsto , Maximilien Cazayous , Randy S. Fishman , Rogério de Sousa

The spin-orbit torque induced by a topological insulator (TI) is theoretically examined for spin wave generation in a neighboring antiferromagnetic thin film. The investigation is based on the micromagnetic simulation of N\'{e}el vector…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-26 Xinyi Xu , Yuriy G. Semenov , Ki Wook Kim

Progress in spintronics has been aided by characterization tools tailored to certain archetypical materials. New device structures and materials will require characterization tools that are material independent, provide sufficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-17 V. P. Bhallamudi , C. S. Wolfe , V. P. Amin , D. E. Labanowski , A. J. Berger , D. Stroud , J. Sinova , P. C. Hammel

Topological insulators exhibit gapless edge or surface states that are topologically protected by time-reversal symmetry. However, several promising candidates for topologically insulating materials (such as Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and HgTe) contain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Arian Vezvaee , Antonio Russo , Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes

Large spin-orbital proximity effects have been predicted in graphene interfaced with a transition metal dichalcogenide layer. Whereas clear evidence for an enhanced spin-orbit coupling has been found at large carrier densities, the type of…

Waveguides are critically important components in microwave, THz, and optical technologies. Due to recent progress in two-dimensional materials, metasurfaces can be efficiently used to design novel waveguide structures which confine the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 X. Ma , M. S. Mirmoosa , S. A. Tretyakov

To address thermal stability issues for spintronic devices with a reduced size, we investigate spin-orbit torque in Co/Pt multilayers with strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Note that the spin-orbit torque arises from the global…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-15 Kuo-Feng Huang , Ding-Shuo Wang , Hsiu-Hau Lin , Chih-Huang Lai

Curved and topologically nontrivial magnetic structures offer new pathways to control spin-wave behavior beyond planar geometries. Here, we study spin-wave dynamics in M\"obius-shaped soft-magnetic nanostrips using micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Ashfaque Thonikkadavan , Massimiliano d'Aquino , Riccardo Hertel

Magnetically ordered materials tend to support bands of coherent propagating spin wave, or magnon, excitations. Topologically protected surface states of magnons offer a new path towards coherent spin transport for spintronics applications.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Alberto Corticelli , Roderich Moessner , Paul A. McClarty

Topological transition of the iso-frequency contour (IFC) from a closed ellipsoid to an open hyperboloid, will provide unique capabilities for controlling the propagation of light. However, the ability to actively tune these effects remains…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-20 Zhiwei Guo , Haitao Jiang , Yong Sun , Yunhui Li , Hong Chen

The interplay between spin wave and magnetic texture represents the information exchange between the fast and slow dynamical parts of magnetic systems. Here we formulate a set of magnonic torques acting on background magnetic texture, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Jin Lan , Hanxu Ai

This work introduces a new theoretical model for active matter ("complementary-spins" or c-spins), exploring the interplay of positional and orientational order in mobile agents with rotational freedom, divided into two populations with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-20 Alessandro Scirè