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Topological magnetism, characterized by topologically protected spin textures, offers rich physics and transformative prospects for spintronics. However, its stabilization typically demands external magnetic fields, preventing…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Zhonglin He , Kaiying Dou , Wenhui Du , Ying Dai , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal , Yandong Ma

Commensurable twisted bilayers can drastically change the magnetic properties of chromium trihalide layered compounds, which opens novel opportunities for tuning magnetic states through layer rotations. Here, we introduce a mathematical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-06 A. M. León , E. A. Velásquez , F. Caro-Lopera , J. Mejía-López

The emergence of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic crystals and moir\'e engineering has opened the door for devising new magnetic ground states via competing interactions in moir\'e superlattices. Although a suite of interesting phenomena,…

The physical properties of two-dimensional van der Waals (2D vdW) crystals depend sensitively on the interlayer coupling, which is intimately connected to the stacking arrangement and the interlayer spacing. For example, simply changing the…

We use a first-principles calculations approach to reveal the electronic and magnetic properties of chromium diiodide (CrI$_2$) bilayers and establish a hierarchy of magnetic interactions across stable registries. The monolayer presents a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 B. Valdés-Toro , I. Ferreira-Araya , R. A. Gallardo , J. W. González

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals structures can be used to control the electronic properties of the material and lead to emergent correlated and topological phenomena. Its first demonstration in van der Waals magnets exhibited…

Spin spirals form inside the magnetic layers of antiferromagnetic and noncollinearly-coupled magnetic multilayers in the presence of an external magnetic field. This spin structure can be modeled to extract the direct exchange stiffness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Elliot Wadge , Afan Terko , George Lertzman-Lepofsky , Paul Omelchenko , Bret Heinrich , Manuel Rojas , Erol Girt

Magnetic MXenes are turning out to be an important family of materials for exploring 2D magnetism. However, investigations into the inter-dependence of layer thickness, stacking patterns and magnetism in these materials, from a microscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-23 Himangshu Sekhar Sarmah , Subhradip Ghosh

We investigate the domain wall network in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) under the influence of interlayer bias and screening effect from the layered structure. Starting from the continuum model, we analyze the low-energy domain wall modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Hao-Chien Wang , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

Motivated by manipulating the magnetic order of bilayer CrI$_3$, we carry out microscopic calculations to find the magnetic order and various magnetic domains of the system in the presence of an electric field. Making use of density…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-17 Sahar Izadi Vishkay , Reza Asgari

We develop a comprehensive theory of twisted bilayer magnetism. Starting from the first-principles calculations of two-dimensional honeycomb magnet CrI3, we construct the generic spin models that represent a broad class of twisted bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-13 Kyoung-Min Kim , Do Hoon Kiem , Grigory Bednik , Myung Joon Han , Moon Jip Park

The moir\'e engineering of two-dimensional magnets opens unprecedented opportunities to design novel magnetic states with promises for spintronic device applications. The possibility of stabilizing skyrmions in these materials without…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-03 Doried Ghader , Bilal Jabakhanji , Alessandro Stroppa

Chiral magnetism, wherein there is a preferred sense of rotation of the magnetization, has become a key aspect for future spintronic applications. It determines the chiral nature of magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, domain walls or spin…

Magnetic ordering in two-dimensional (2D) materials has recently emerged as a promising platform for data storage, computing, and sensing. To advance these developments, it is vital to gain a detailed understanding of how the magnetic order…

Twisted two-dimensional (2D) layered materials exhibit many novel and unique phenomena, such as insulation and superconductivity transition, and superlubricity. However, the effect of twisting on these phenomena remains unclear. A key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Ze Liu

Surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators exhibit the phenomenon of spin-momentum locking, whereby the orientation of an electron spin is determined by its momentum. Probing the spin texture of these states is of critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Pan He , Steven S. -L. Zhang , Dapeng Zhu , Yang Liu , Yi Wang , Jiawei Yu , Giovanni Vignale , Hyunsoo Yang

This review synthesizes recent advancements in the study of moir\'e magnetism. This emerging field, at the intersection of twistronics, topology, and strongly correlated systems, explores novel phenomena that arise when moir\'e potentials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-06 Paula Mellado

Skyrmions are promising for the next generation of spintronic and magnonic devices, but their zero-field stability and controlled nucleation through chiral interactions remain challenging. In this theoretical study, we explore the potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-13 Bilal Jabakhanji , Doried Ghader

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are proving a fertile ground for investigating strongly correlated electron phases. This is because the moir\'e pattern introduced by the relative twist between layers introduces…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-13 Hao Tang , Stephen Carr , Efthimios Kaxiras

We construct a microscopic model based on superexchange theory for a moir\'e bilayer in chromium trihalides (Cr$X_3$, $X=$Br, I). In particular, we derive analytically the interlayer Heisenberg exchange and the interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Kok Wee Song