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Topological magnon insulators are a new class of magnetic materials that possess topologically nontrivial magnon bands. As a result, magnons in these materials display properties analogous to those of electrons in topological insulators.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-22 R. Chisnell , J. S. Helton , D. E. Freedman , D. K. Singh , F. Demmel , C. Stock , D. G. Nocera , Y. S. Lee

Recently proposed spintronic devices use magnetic skyrmions as bits of information. The reliable detection of those chiral magnetic objects is an indispensable requirement. Yet, the high mobility of magnetic skyrmions leads to their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Tim Matthies , Alexander F. Schäffer , Thore Posske , Roland Wiesendanger , Elena Y. Vedmedenko

Databases compiled using ab-initio and symmetry-based calculations now contain tens of thousands of topological insulators and topological semimetals. This makes the application of modern machine learning methods to topological materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Nikolas Claussen , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nicolas Regnault

Three dimensional topological insulator crystals consist of an insulating bulk enclosed by metallic surfaces, and detailed theoretical predictions about the surface state band topology and spin texture are available. While several…

Topological materials (TMs) showcase intriguing physical properties defying expectations based on conventional materials, and hold promise for the development of devices with new functionalities. While several theoretically proposed TMs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Feng Tang , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Xiangang Wan

Despite the tremendous interest raised by the recent realization of magnetic Weyl semimetals and the observation of giant anomalous Hall signals, most of the theories used to interpret experimental data overlook the influence of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

Crystalline symmetries play an important role in the classification of band structures, and the rich variety of spatial symmetries in solids leads to various topological crystalline phases (TCPs). However, compared with topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Feng Tang , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Xiangang Wan

The multiferroic ferrimagnet Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$ with a chiral crystal structure attracted a lot of recent attention due to the emergence of magnetic skyrmion order in this material. Here, the topological properties of its magnon excitations are…

The studies of topological insulators and topological semimetals have been at frontiers of condensed matter physics and material science. Both classes of materials are characterized by robust surface states created by the topology of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-10 Wei Ning , Zhiqiang Mao

Intrinsic magnetic topological insulators offers an ideal platform to explore exotic topological phenomena, such as axion electrodynamics, quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect and Majorana edge modes. However, these emerging new physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Yadong Jiang , Huan Wang , Kejie Bao , Jing Wang

The use of topology optimization methods for the design of electric machines has become increasingly popular over the past years. Due to a desired increase in power density and a recent trend to high speed machines, thermal aspects play a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Peter Gangl , Nepomuk Krenn , Herbert De Gersem

Two-dimensional topological materials (TMs) have a variety of properties that make them attractive for applications including spintronics and quantum computation. However, there are only a few such experimentally known materials. To help…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-08 Kamal Choudhary , Kevin F. Garrity , Jie Jiang , Ruth Pachter , Francesca Tavazza

Two-dimensional (2D) topological materials (TMs) have attracted tremendous attention due to the promise of revolutionary devices with non-dissipative electric or spin currents. Unfortunately, the scarcity of 2D TMs holds back the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Di Wang , Feng Tang , Jialin Ji , Wenqing Zhang , Ashvin Vishwanath , Hoi Chun Po , Xiangang Wan

The scarcity of predicted magnetic topological materials (MTMs) by magnetic space group (MSG) hinders further exploration towards realistic device applications. Here, we propose a new scheme combining spin space groups (SSGs)--approximate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Liangliang Huang , Xiangang Wan , Feng Tang

Topological materials in crystal solids, including topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), topological Dirac semimetals (DSMs), topological Weyl semimetals (WSMs), topological Dirac or Weyl nodal line…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-05 Xing-Qiu Chen

In this study, ultrafast optical spectroscopy was employed to elucidate the intricate topological features of EuIn$_2$As$_2$, a promising candidate for a magnetic topological-crystalline axion insulator. Our investigation, focusing on the…

In this Book Chapter (invited) we briefly review the basic concepts defining topological insulators and focus on elaborating on the key experimental results that revealed and established their symmetry protected (SPT) topological nature. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , Madhab Neupane

Topological insulators (TIs) are a new class of quantum materials that exhibit spin momentum locking (SML) of massless Dirac fermions in the surface states. Usually optical methods, such as angle and spin-resolved photoemission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 André Dankert , Johannes Geurs , M. Venkata Kamalakar , Saroj P. Dash

Since topological insulators were theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in semiconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling, more and more attention has been drawn to topological materials which host exotic surface states. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Yige Chen , Yuan-Ming Lu , Hae-Young Kee

The large spin orbit coupling in topological insulators results in helical spin-textured Dirac surface states that are attractive for topological spintronics. These states generate an efficient spin-orbit torque on proximal magnetic moments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yang Lv , James Kally , Delin Zhang , Joon Sue Lee , Mahdi Jamali , Nitin Samarth , Jian-Ping Wang