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Machine learning (ML) is shaping our exploration of topological matter, whose existence is inherently tied to the geometry of quantum states or energy spectra. In non-Hermitian systems, distinctive spectral geometry can lead to topological…

The discovery of magnetic skyrmion bubbles in centrosymmetric magnets has been receiving increasing interest from the research community, due to the fascinating physics of topological spin textures and its possible applications to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Zhipeng Hou , Qiang Zhang , Guizhou Xu , Senfu Zhang , Chen Gong , Bei Ding , Hang Li , Feng Xu , Yuan Yao , Enke Liu , Guangheng Wu , Xi-xiang Zhang , Wenhong Wang

Harnessing the optical properties of noble metals down to the nanometer-scale is a key step towards fast and low-dissipative information processing. At the 10-nm length scale, metal crystallinity and patterning as well as probing of surface…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable spin swirling particle like entities which are appealing for next generation spintronic devices. The expected low critical current density for the motion of skyrmions makes them potential…

Strong magneto-electric coupling in two-dimensional helical materials leads to a peculiar type of topologically protected solutions -- skyrmions. Coupling between the net ferroelectric polarization and magnetization allows control of the…

Chemical bonding and electronic structure of MgB2, a boron-based newly discovered superconductor, is studied using self-consistent band structure techniques. Analysis of the transformation of the band structure for the hypothetical series…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 K. D. Belashchenko , M. van Schilfgaarde , V. P. Antropov

A versatile control of magnetic systems, widely used to store information, can also enable manipulating Majorana bounds states (MBS) and implementing fault-tolerant quantum information processing. The proposed platform relies on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-23 Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Andrew D. Kent , Geoffrey L. Fatin , Benedikt Scharf , Igor Žutić

In magnetic materials, skyrmions are nanoscale regions where the orientation of electron spin changes in a vortex-type manner. Here we show that spin-orbit coupling in a focused vector beam results in a skyrmion-like photonic spin…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-24 Luping Du , Aiping Yang , Anatoly V. Zayats , Xiaocong Yuan

The review is aimed at highlighting the aspects of topological superconductivity in the absence of spin-orbit interaction in two-dimensional systems with long-range non-collinear spin ordering or magnetic skyrmions. Another purpose is to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-22 A. O. Zlotnikov , M. S. Shustin , A. D. Fedoseev

The notion of non-trivial topological winding in condensed matter systems represents a major area of present-day theoretical and experimental research. Magnetic materials offer a versatile platform that is particularly amenable for the…

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) twisted homobilayers have been established as an ideal platform for studying strong correlation phenomena, as exemplified by the recent discovery of fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states in twisted…

We consider multiskyrmion configurations in 2D ferromagnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction and the magnetic field, using the stereographic projection method. In the absence of DM interaction, $D$, and the field, $B$, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 V. E. Timofeev , A. O. Sorokin , D. N. Aristov

Magnetic ultrathin films grown on heavy metal substrates often exhibit rich spin structures due to the competition between various magnetic interactions such as Heisenberg exchange, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and higher-order spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Yulong Yang , Mingming Shuai , Haiming Huang , Rui Song , Yi Zhu , Yanghui Liao , Yinyan Zhu , Xiaodong Zhou , Lifeng Yin , Jian Shen

Magnetic skyrmions are the self-organized topological spin textures behaving like particles. Because of their fast creation and typically long lifetime, experimental verification of skyrmion's creation/annihilation processes has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 T. Shimojima , A. Nakamura , X. Z. Yu , K. Karube , Y. Taguchi , Y. Tokura , K. Ishizaka

The advancement of next-generation magnetic devices depends on fast manipulating magnetic microstructures on the nanoscale. A universal method is presented for rapidly and reliably generating, controlling, and driving nano-scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Haiming Dong , Panpan Fu , Yifeng Duan , Kai Chang

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 explore the physics of novel fermion liquids emerging from conducting networks, where 1D metallic wires form a periodic 2D superstructure. Such structure naturally appears in marginally-twisted bilayer graphenes, moire transition metal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-11 Jongjun M. Lee , Masaki Oshikawa , Gil Young Cho

Thin, magnetically aligned striations of relatively moderate contrast with the background are commonly observed in both atomic and molecular clouds. They are also prominent in MHD simulations with turbulent converging shocks. The simulated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 Che-Yu Chen , Zhi-Yun Li , Patrick K. King , Laura M. Fissel

Magnetic skyrmion crystals are traditionally associated with non-centrosymmetric crystal structures; however, it has been demonstrated that skyrmion crystals can be stabilized by competing interactions in centrosymmetric crystals. To…

When atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials are layered they often form incommensurate non-crystalline structures that exhibit long-period moir{\' e} patterns when examined by scanning probes. In this paper we present an approach…

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