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Magnetic hopfions are non-collinear spin textures that are characterized by an integer topological invariant, called Hopf index. The three-dimensional magnetic solitons can be thought of as a tube with a twisted magnetization that has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Börge Göbel , Samir Lounis

We consider the combined effects of large spin-orbit couplings and a perpendicular magnetic field in a 2D honeycomb fermionic lattice. This system provides an elegant setup to generate versatile spin textures propagating along the edge of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 N. Goldman , W. Beugeling , C. Morais Smith

The surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators exhibit a helical spin texture with spin locked to momentum. To date, however, the direct all-electrical detection of the helical spin texture has remained elusive owing to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Shi-Han Zheng , Hou-Jian Duan , Mou Yang , Rui-Qiang Wang

Spin textures, i.e., the distribution of spin polarization vectors in reciprocal space, exhibit diverse patterns determined by symmetry constraints, resulting in a variety of spintronic phenomena. Here, we propose a universal theory to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-24 Yuntian Liu , Jiayu Li , Pengfei Liu , Qihang Liu

The transport properties of non-trivial spin textures are coming under closer scrutiny as the amount of experimental data and theoretical simulations is increasing. To extend the commonly accepted yet simplifying and approximate picture of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Jonathan Kipp , Fabian R. Lux , Yuriy Mokrousov

The anomalous Hall effect has been front and center in solid state research and material science for over a century now, and the complex transport phenomena in nontrivial magnetic textures have gained an increasing amount of attention, both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Jonathan Kipp , Fabian R. Lux , Thorben Pürling , Abigail Morrison , Stefan Blügel , Daniele Pinna , Yuriy Mokrousov

Topological spin textures in magnetic materials such as skyrmions and hopfions are interesting manifestations of geometric structures in real materials, concurrently having potential applications as information carriers. In the crystalline…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-15 Temuujin Bayaraa , Sinéad M. Griffin

Hamiltonian theory of hybrid quantum-classical systems is used to study dynamics of the classical subsystem coupled to different types of quantum systems. It is shown that the qualitative properties of orbits of the classical subsystem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 N. Buric , D. B. Popovic , M. Radonjic , S. Prvanovic

Despite the recent success of identifying experimental signatures of the orbital Hall effect (OHE), the research on the microscopic mechanisms behind this unique phenomenon is still in its infancy. Here, using a gapped 2D Dirac material as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Alessandro Veneri , Tatiana G. Rappoport , Aires Ferreira

For a particle confined to the two-dimensional helical surface embedded in four-dimensional (4D) Euclidean space, the effective Hamiltonian is deduced in the thin-layer quantization formalism. We find that the gauge structure of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Yong-Long Wang , Hong-Shi Zong , Hui Liu , Yan-Feng Chen

Chiral spin textures such as skyrmions have attracted considerable attention due to their nontrivial topology, chirality, stability at the nanoscale, and potential for low-power spintronic devices. The recent discovery of intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Nihad Abuawwad , Samir Lounis

We present a systematic derivation of effective lattice spin Hamiltonians derived from a rotationally invariant multi-orbital Hubbard model including a term ensuring Hund's rule coupling. The Hamiltonians are derived down-folding the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Markus Hoffmann , Stefan Blügel

We show that spin-orbit interaction and elastic spin-Hall effect can exist in a classical mechanical system consisting of a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of masses and springs. The band structure shows the presence of splitting at K…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Yao-Ting Wang , Shuang Zhang

Weak ergodicity breaking in interacting quantum systems may occur due to the existence of a subspace dynamically decoupled from the rest of the Hilbert space. In two-orbital spinful lattice systems, we construct such subspaces that are in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-04 Kiryl Pakrouski , K. V. Samokhin

The Rashba, Dresselhaus, and Weyl Hamiltonians form a foundational framework for modeling spin-orbit interactions across condensed matter systems. Although they describe distinct material classes and produce seemingly different spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Manish Kumar Mohanta

Nonlinear electrical conduction primarily mediated by an orbital texture is observed in chiral semiconductor Te. We determine the enantiospecific sign of the nonlinear conductance and identify anomalies in its carrier-density dependence.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Suguru Okumura , Ryutaro Tanaka , Daichi Hirobe

Orbital effects, despite their fundamental significance and potential to engender novel physical phenomena and enable new applications, have long been underexplored compared to their spin counterparts. Recently, surging interest in the…

Spin textures in k-space arising from spin-orbit coupling in non-centrosymmetric crystals find numerous applications in spintronics. We present a mechanism that leads to appearance of k-space spin texture due to spontaneous symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-24 J. Kunes , D. Geffroy

Two-dimensional hexagonal and oblique lattices were investigated theoretically with the aim of observing differences in the spin expectation values between chiral and achiral systems. The spinresolved band structures were derived from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 N. K. Lewis , P. J. Durham , W. R. Flavell , E. A. Seddon

The current understanding of spin-polarization phenomena in crystals relies heavily on the development of specific k.p Hamiltonians. A more fundamental and symmetry-driven understanding, based solely on crystalline symmetries, remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-23 Wei Tan , Jianfeng Wang , Yang Li , Bing Huang