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Collective plasmon excitations in a helical electron liquid on the surface of strong three-dimensional topological insulator are considered. The properties and internal structure of these excitations are studied. Due to spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-18 D. K. Efimkin , Yu. E. Lozovik , A. A. Sokolik

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

Study of the dephasing in electronic systems is not only important for probing the nature of their ground states, but also crucial to harnessing the quantum coherence for information processing. In contrast to well-studied conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 Jian Liao , Yunbo Ou , Haiwen Liu , Ke He , Xucun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue , Yongqing Li

Electrical circuits offer a unique platform to explore physical phenomena, from topology to non-Hermitian effects. Investigations of the fundamental properties of this metamaterial platform are crucial to distinguish observed/measured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Haydar Sahin

We investigate theoretically the electromagnon on the surfaces of the magnetic topological insulator thin films. It is found that when the magnetic asymmetry between the top and bottom surfaces is there, the ferromagnetic resonance is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yusuke Hama , Naoto Nagaosa

Leveraging topological properties in the response of electromagnetic systems can greatly enhance their potential. Although the investigation of singularity-based electromagnetics and non-Hermitian electronics has considerably increased in…

This monograph offers an overview on the topological invariants in fermionic topological insulators from the complex classes. Tools from K-theory and non-commutative geometry are used to define bulk and boundary invariants, to establish the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Emil Prodan , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

We consider electron drag in a system of two ferromagnetic layers separated by an insulating interface. The source of it is expected to be magnon-electron interactions. Namely, we assume that the external voltage is applied to the "active"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 V. I. Kozub , M. I. Muradov , Y. M. Galperin

We investigate the spin-pumping-induced electric current on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator hybridized with a ferromagnet, namely, ferromagnetic topological insulator. In order to do this, we establish the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Yusuke Hama , Kentaro Nomura

In this contribution, we re-assess some aspects of axionic electrodynamics by coupling non-linear electromagnetic effects to axion physics. We present a number of motivations to justify the coupling of the axion to the photon in terms of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-27 J. M. A. Paixão , L. P. R. Ospedal , M. J. Neves , J. A. Helayël-Neto

In this article we will explore the spacetime phase structure inside the Infeld-van der Waerden formalisms, showing that Maxwell's theory in this scenario leads to an axion-like phase electrodynamics, which suggests that this phase may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-29 André Martorano Kuerten , A. Fernandes-Silva

We propose a spin transport experiment to measure the low-energy excitations in insulators with spin degrees of freedom, with a focus on detecting ground states that lack magnetic order. A general formalism to compute the spin-current from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-21 Shubhayu Chatterjee , Subir Sachdev

A simple theory of electromechanical transduction for single-charge-carrier double-layer electroactuators is developed, in which the ion distribution and curvature are mutually coupled. The obtained expressions for the dependence of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-12-11 Alpha A. Lee , Ralph H. Colby , Alexei A. Kornyshev

Topological physics opens up a plethora of exciting phenomena allowing to engineer disorder-robust unidirectional flows of light. Recent advances in topological protection of electromagnetic waves suggest that even richer functionalities…

We discuss plasmonic excitations in a thin slab of a topological insulators. In the limit of no hybridization of the surface states and same electronic density of the two layers, the electrostatic coupling between the top and bottom layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 T. Stauber , G. Gómez-Santos , L. Brey

One-dimensional models with topological non-trivial band structures are a simple and effective way to study novel and exciting concepts in topological photonics. In this work we are studying the propagation of light-matter quasi-particles,…

The onset of exciton condensation in a topological insulator thin film was recently predicted. We calculate the critical temperature for this transition, taking into account screening effects. Furthermore, we show that the proximity to this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-04 M. P. Mink , H. T. C. Stoof , R. A. Duine , Marco Polini , G. Vignale

We provide an account of some of the mathematics of Bott periodicity and the Atiyah, Bott, Shapiro construction. We apply these ideas to understanding the twisted bundles of electron bands that underly the properties of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 Michael Stone , Ching-Kai Chiu , Abhishek Roy

Topologically nontrivial states, the solitons, emerge as elementary excitations in 1D electronic systems. In a quasi 1D material the topological requirements originate the spin- or charge- roton like excitations with charge- or spin- kinks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Brazovskii

We propose a device in which the spin-polarized AC plasmon mode in the surface state of a topological insulator nanostructure induces a static spin accumulation in a resonant, normal metal structure coupled to it. Using a finite-difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-11 Ian Appelbaum , H. D. Drew , M. S. Fuhrer