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Motivated by recent experiments on the itinerant helimagnet MnSi, we study general properties of helical spin crystals - magnetic structures obtained by superposing distinct spin spirals. An effective Landau description of helical spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Binz , A. Vishwanath

The interplay between the spin-orbit and Zeeman interactions acting on a spinful Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model is studied based on an InAs nanowire subjected to a periodic gate potential along the axial direction. It is shown that a nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Zhi-Hai Liu , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , J. Q. You , H. Q. Xu

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

The emergence of non equilibrium topological phases in low dimensional systems offers an interesting route for material properties engineering. We analyze the dynamical modulation of two coupled one-dimensional chains, described by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Carla Borja , Esther Gutiérrez , Alexander López

Different types of order are discussed in the context of strongly correlated transition metal oxides, involving pure compounds and $3d^{3}-4d^{4}$ and $3d^{2}-4d^{4}$ hybrids. Apart from standard, long-range spin and orbital orders we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-24 Wojciech Brzezicki

Chirality manifests across multiple scales, yielding unique phenomena that break mirror symmetry. In chiral materials, unexpectedly large spin-filtering or photogalvanic effects have been observed even in materials composed of light…

We theoretically obtain the phase diagram of localized magnetic impurity spins arranged in a one-dimensional chain on top of a one- or two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The interactions between the spins are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 Younghyun Kim , Meng Cheng , Bela Bauer , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

We study dynamical mass generation and the resultant helical spin orders in topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals, including the edge states of quantum spin Hall insulators, the surface states of weak topological insulators, and the bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-14 Xiao-Qi Sun , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Zhong Wang

We analyze the topological and dynamical properties of a system formed by two chains of identical emitters coupled to a waveguide, whose guided modes induce all-to-all excitation hopping. We find that, in the single excitation limit, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ciaran McDonnell , Beatriz Olmos

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

We investigate the existence of symmetry-protected topological phases in one-dimensional alkaline-earth cold fermionic atoms with general half-integer nuclear spin I at half filling. In this respect, some orbital degrees of freedom are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-20 H. Nonne , M. Moliner , S. Capponi , P. Lecheminant , K. Totsuka

The topological properties of the bulk band structure of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) manifest themselves in the form of metallic surface states. In this paper, we propose a probe which directly couples to an exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sthitadhi Roy , Kush Saha , Sourin Das

In this paper an effective integrable non-linear model describing the electron spin dynamics in a deformable helical molecule with weak spin-orbit coupling is presented. Non-linearity arises from the electron-lattice interaction and it…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-02-14 P. Albares , E. Diaz , J. M. Cervero , F. Dominguez-Adame , E. Diez , P. G. Estevez

The helical edge states of time-reversal invariant two-dimensional topological insulators are protected against backscattering in idealized models. In more realistic scenarios with a shallow confining potential at the sample boundary,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Niels John , Adrian Del Maestro , Bernd Rosenow

One of the fascinating topological phenomena is the end state in one dimensional system. In this work, the topological photonics in the dimer chains composed by the split ring resonators are revealed based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model.…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Jun Jiang , Zhiwei Guo , Ya-qiong Ding , Yong Sun , Yunhui Li , Haitao Jiang , Hong Chen

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a one-dimensional $Z_{2}$ topological insulator, which has two topological distinct phases corresponding to two different dimerizations. When spin-orbit coupling is introduced into the SSH…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-19 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

Motivated by the recent experimental success in realizing synthetic spin-orbit coupling in ultracold atomic systems, we consider N-component atoms coupled to a non-Abelian SU(N) gauge field. More specifically, we focus on the case, referred…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-06 Ryan Barnett , G. R. Boyd , Victor Galitski

Topological insulators are promising for spintronics and related technologies due to their spin-momentum-locked edge states, which are protected by time-reversal symmetry. In addition to the unique fundamental physics that arises in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Antonio Russo , Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou

Crystalline symmetries give rise to topological invariants that can distinguish quantum phases of matter. Understanding these in strongly interacting systems is an ongoing research direction requiring non-perturbative methods. Recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Naren Manjunath , Maissam Barkeshli

We prove the existence of topological rings in (0,2) theories containing non-anomalous left-moving U(1) currents by which they may be twisted. While the twisted models are not topological, their ground operators form a ring under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Adams , Jacques Distler , Morten Ernebjerg