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Topological electric quadrupole is a recently proposed concept that extends the theory of electric polarization of crystals to higher orders. Such a quadrupole phase supports topological states localized on both edges and corners. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Feng Liu , Hai-Yao Deng , Katsunori Wakabayashi

Recently discovered Dirac semimetals (DSMs) with two Dirac nodes, such as Na$_{3}$Bi and Cd$_{2}$As$_{3}$, are regarded to carry the $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ topological charge in addition to the chiral charge. Here, we study the Floquet phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Xiao-Shi Li , Chen Wang , Ming-Xun Deng , Hou-Jian Duan , Pei-Hao Fu , Rui-Qiang Wang , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

We introduce the notion of a band-inverted, topological semimetal in two-dimensional nonsymmorphic crystals. This notion is materialized in the monolayers of MTe$_2$ (M $=$ W, Mo) if spin-orbit coupling is neglected. We characterize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Lukas Muechler , Aris Alexandradinata , Titus Neupert , Roberto Car

Topological photonics has emerged recently as a novel approach for realizing robust optical circuitry, and the study of nonlinear effects in topological photonics is expected to open the door for tunability of photonic structures with…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-12 Daria Smirnova , Lev Smirnov , Daniel Leykam , Yuri Kivshar

Spin inertia has been demonstrated to give rise to high-frequency nutational excitations beyond the conventional low-frequency precessional modes. Here, we demonstrate that the hybridization between precessional and nutational magnons may…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-01 Subhadip Ghosh , Mikhail Cherkasskii , Ritwik Mondal , Alexander Mook , Levente Rózsa

Spintronics, or spin electronics, is aimed at efficient control and manipulation of spin degrees of freedom in electron systems. To comply with demands of nowaday spintronics, the studies of electron systems hosting giant spin-orbit-split…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-05 S. V. Eremeev , I. A. Nechaev , P. M. Echenique , E. V. Chulkov

Half-metals have been envisioned as active components in spintronic devices by virtue of their completely spin-polarized electrical currents. Actual materials hosting half-metallic phases, however, remain scarce. Here, we predict that…

We argue that spin and valley-polarized metallic phases recently observed in graphene bilayers and trilayers support chiral edge modes that allow spin waves to propagate ballistically along system boundaries without backscattering. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Zhiyu Dong , Olumakinde Ogunnaike , Leonid Levitov

We consider theoretically a system of exciton-polariton micropillars arranged in a honeycomb lattice. The naturally present TE-TM splitting and an alternating Zeeman splitting, where the different sublattices experience opposite Zeeman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Ruiqi Bao , S. Mandal , Huawen Xu , Xingran Xu , R. Banerjee , Timothy C. H. Liew

Conventional magnonic devices use three classes of magnetostatic waves that require detailed manipulation of magnetization structure that makes the design and the device/circuitry scalability difficult tasks. Here, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 X. S. Wang , H. W. Zhang , X. R. Wang

We find a mixed chirality $d$-wave superconducting state in the coexistence region between antiferromagnetism and interaction-driven superconductivity in lightly doped honeycomb materials. This state has a topological chiral $d+id$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-04 A. M. Black-Schaffer , K. Le Hur

An important aspect in categorizing topological phases is whether the system is spinless or spinful, given that these classes exhibit distinct symmetry algebras, leading to disparate topological classifications. By utilizing the projective…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-21 Xiaofan Zhou , Suotang Jia , Jian-Song Pan

The topological phases of graphene with spin-orbit coupling, an exchange field, and a staggered-sublattice potential determine the properties of the edge states of the zigzag nanoribbon. In the presence of the Hubbard interaction, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Ma Luo

Topological phases are characterised by a topological invariant that remains unchanged by deformations in the Hamiltonian. Materials exhibiting topological phases include topological insulators, superconductors exhibiting strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Dimitrie Culcer , Attila Geresdi

Gated heterostructures containing bilayer graphene with staggered sublattice potentials are investigated by tight binding model with Rashba spin-orbital coupling and Hubbard interaction. The topological phase diagrams depend on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Ma Luo , Zhibing Li

Discrete degrees of freedom, such as spin and orbital, can provide intriguing strategies to manipulate electrons, photons, and phonons. With a spin degree of freedom, topological insulators have stimulated intense interests in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Jingwen Ma , Xiang Xi , Yuan Li , Xiankai Sun

The motion of a relativistic particle is linked to its spin by the Dirac equation. Remarkably, electrons in two-dimensional materials can mimic such Dirac particles but must always appear in pairs of opposite spin chirality. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Kenjiro K. Gomes , Wonhee Ko , Warren Mar , Yulin Chen , Zhi-Xun Shen , Hari C. Manoharan

Spin-1 condensed matter systems characterized by the combination of a Dirac-like dispersion and flat bands are ideal for realizing high-temperature electronics and spintronic technologies in the absence of external magnetic field. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-19 Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang

Realizing novel topological states in magnonic systems unlocks robust, low-power spin-wave devices. In this letter, we show that incorporating left-handed spin waves (antimagnons) fundamentally reorganizes band topology, and enables tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Yifan Liu , Zehan Chen , Qiming Shao

In a blueprint for topological electronics, edge state transport in a topological insulator material can be controlled by employing a gate-induced topological quantum phase transition. Here, by studying the width dependence of electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Muhammad Nadeem , Chao Zhang , Dimitrie Culcer , Alex R. Hamilton , Michael S. Fuhrer , Xiaolin Wang