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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

Electromagnetic waves characterized by intensity, phase, and polarization degrees of freedom are widely applied in data storage, encryption, and communications. However, these properties can be substantially affected by phase disorders and…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-26 Peng Shi , Min Lin , Xinxin Gou , Luping Du , Aiping Yang , Xiaocong Yuan

Topological semimetals have recently attracted great attention due to prospective applications governed by their peculiar Fermi surfaces. Weyl semimetals host chiral fermions that manifest as pairs of non-degenerate massless Weyl points in…

We theoretically study spin and charge transport induced by a twisted light beam irradiated on a disordered surface of a doped three dimensional topological insulator (TI). We find that various types of spin vortices are imprinted on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Kunitaka Shintani , Katsuhisa Taguchi , Yukio Tanaka , Yuki Kawaguchi

Exchange bias is a phenomenon critical to solid-state technologies that require spin valves or non-volatile magnetic memory. The phenomenon is usually studied in the context of magnetic interfaces between antiferromagnets and ferromagnets,…

The surface of a topological insulator hosts a very special form of a quasi-two dimensional metallic system when it is embedded in a topologically trivial medium like the vacuum. The electronic properties of this unusual 2D metal are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-13 M. M. Vazifeh , M. Franz

Spin-momentum locking is an intrinsic property of surface electromagnetic fields and its study has led to the discovery of photonic spin lattices and diverse applications. Previously, dispersion was ignored in the spin-momentum locking,…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-08 Peng Shi , Xinrui Lei , Qiang Zhang , Heng Li , Luping Du , Xiaocong Yuan

Three-dimensional topological insulators are a class of Dirac materials, wherein strong spin-orbit coupling leads to two-dimensional surface states. The latter feature spin-momentum locking, i.e., each momentum vector is associated with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Paul Seifert , Kristina Vaklinova , Sergey Ganichev , Klaus Kern , Marko Burghard , Alexander W. Holleitner

Electron fractionalization into spinons and chargeons plays a crucial role in 2D models of strongly correlated electrons. In this paper we show that spin-charge separation is not a phenomenon confined to lower dimensions but, rather, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-01 M. Cristina Diamantini , Carlo A. Trugenberger

Spin-momentum locking, a key property of the surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators (3DTIs), provides a new avenue for spintronics applications. One consequence of spin-momentum locking is the induction of surface spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Ali Asgharpour , Cosimo Gorini , Sven Essert , Klaus Richter , İnanç Adagideli

It is shown that the charge susceptibility in nearly half-filled two-dimensional (2D) metals, with technically nested Fermi surface, shows anomaly at the wavevector different from that for the spin susceptibility at low temperatures. Namely…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazumasa Miyake , Osamu Narikiyo

Spin momentum locking is a key feature of the topological surface state, which plays an important role in spintronics. The electrical detection of current-induced spin polarization protected by the spin momentum locking in non-magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Guang-Yu Zhu , Ji-Ai Ning , Jian-Kun Wang , Xin-Jie Liu , Jing-Zhi Fang , Ze-Nan Wu , Jia-Jie Yang , Ben-Chuan Lin , Shuo Wang , Dapeng Yu

Recent progress in spintronics within the paradigm of altermagnets (AMs) opens new avenues for next-generation electronic device design. Here, we establish a spin-corner locking mechanism that generates second-order topological states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Ning-Jing Yang , Zhigao Huang , Jian-Min Zhang

We report on exotic response properties in 3D time-reversal invariant Weyl semimetals with mirror symmetry. Despite having a vanishing anomalous Hall coefficient, we find that the momentum-space quadrupole moment formed by four Weyl nodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Oleg Dubinkin , F. J. Burnell , Taylor L. Hughes

The momentum and spin of charge carriers in the topological insulators are constrained to be perpendicular to each other due to the strong spin-orbit coupling. We have investigated this unique spin-momentum locking property in Sb2Te3…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Jen-Ru Chen , Pok-Lam Tse , Ilya N. Krivorotov , Jia G Lu

Weyl semimetals and higher-order topological insulators represent two fundamental yet distinct classes of topological matter. While both have been extensively studied in classical-wave systems, their coexistence and controllable transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Yu-Hong Han , Yi Li , Feng Mei , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia

Strong electron correlations lie at the origin of transformative phenomena such as colossal magneto-resistance and high-temperature superconductivity. Already near room temperature, doped copper oxide materials display remarkable features…

The interplay among quantum degrees of freedom-spin, orbital and momentum-has emerged as a fertile ground for realizing magnetic quantum states with transformative potential for electronic and spintronic technologies. Prominent examples…

Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) are known to carry 2D Dirac-like topological surface states in which spin-momentum locking prohibits backscattering. When thinned down to a few nanometers, the hybridization between the…

The surface of a 3D topological insulator is a new type of two dimensional electron gas (2DEG). The exactly quantized magneto-optical or axionic response of a 3D topological insulator is a direct result of the Berry's phase protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-24 M. Zahid Hasan