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We establish a unified, symmetry-driven framework that combines the alternating spin splitting of altermagnets with valley topology to realize and electrically interconvert helical and chiral topological phases within a single material…

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A remarkable orbital quadrupole magnetic resonance, so-called twist mode, is predicted in alkali metal clusters where it is represented by $I^{\pi}=2^-$ low-energy excitations of valence electrons with strong M2 transitions to the ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. O. Nesterenko , J. R. Marinelli , F. F. de Souza Cruz , W. Kleinig , P. -G. Reinhard

Altermagnets constitute a novel, third fundamental class of collinear magnetic ordered materials, alongside with ferro- and antiferromagnets. They share with conventional antiferromagnets the feature of a vanishing net magnetization. At the…

Spin-momentum helical locking is one of the most important properties of the nontrivial topological surface states (TSS) in 3D topological insulators (TI). It underlies the iconic topological protection (suppressing elastic backscattering)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jifa Tian , Isaac Childres , Helin Cao , Shen Tian , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Yong P. Chen

Efficient control of phonons is crucial to energy-information technology, but limited by the lacking of tunable degrees of freedom like charge or spin. Here we suggest to utilize crystalline symmetry-protected pseudospins as new quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Yizhou Liu , Yong Xu , Wenhui Duan

Topological magnetic (anti)skrymions are robust string-like objects heralded as potential components in next-generation topological spintronics devices due to their manipulability via low-energy stimuli such as magnetic fields, heat, and…

In this work, we explore the intriguing spin-momentum locking phenomenon within the Rashba states of antimony (Sb) films. By combining spin pumping with the flow of an external charge current, we reveal the topological properties of surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 J. E. Abrão , E. Gomes da Silva , G. Rodrigues-Junior , J. B. S. Mendes , A. Azevedo

Discovery of topological Weyl semimetals has revealed the opportunities to realize several extraordinary physical phenomena in condensed matter physics. Specifically, these semimetals with strong spin-orbit coupling, broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Bing Zhao , Dmitrii Khokhriakov , Yang Zhang , Huixia Fu , Bogdan Karpiak , Anamul Md. Hoque , Xiaoguang Xu , Yong Jiang , Binghai Yan , Saroj P. Dash

Spin-orbit coupling with bosons gives rise to novel properties that are absent in usual bosonic systems. Under very general conditions, the conventional ground state wavefunctions of bosons are constrained by the "no-node" theorem to be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-27 Xiangfa Zhou , Yi Li , Zi Cai , Congjun Wu

The interplay between chirality and topology nurtures many exotic electronic properties. For instance, topological chiral semimetals display multifold chiral fermions that manifest nontrivial topological charge and spin texture. They are an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Qun Yang , Jiewen Xiao , Iñigo Robredo , Maia G. Vergniory , Binghai Yan , Claudia Felser

In the quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) copper- and iron-based superconductors, the onset of superconductivity is accompanied by a prominent peak in the magnetic spectrum at momenta close to the wave-vector of the nearby antiferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-21 Fei Chen , Rafael M. Fernandes , Morten H. Christensen

Surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators exhibit the phenomenon of spin-momentum locking, whereby the orientation of an electron spin is determined by its momentum. Probing the spin texture of these states is of critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Pan He , Steven S. -L. Zhang , Dapeng Zhu , Yang Liu , Yi Wang , Jiawei Yu , Giovanni Vignale , Hyunsoo Yang

For the solid state physics, recent interest to topological systems is mostly connected with topological semimetals, in particular, to Weyl ones as the most representative semimetal type. Like other topological materials, e.g. topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 E. V. Deviatov

Spin accumulation is a crucial but imprecise concept in spintronics. In metal-based spintronics it is characterized in terms of semiclassical distribution functions. In semiconductors with a strong spin-orbit coupling the spin accumulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-10 Henri Saarikoski , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Topological insulators are of interest for many applications in electronics and optoelectronics, but harnessing their unique properties requires detailed understanding and control of charge injection at electrical contacts. Here we present…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Catalin D. Spataru , Francois Leonard

Recent years have brought an explosion of activities in the research of topological aspects of condensed-matter systems. Topologically non-trivial phases of matter are typically accompanied by protected surface states or exotic degenerate…

The surface of a topological insulator hosts Dirac electronic states with the spin-momentum locking, which constrains spin orientation perpendicular to electron momentum. As a result, collective plasma excitations in the interacting Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Mehdi Kargarian

Gaining growing attention in spintronics is a class of magnets displaying zero net magnetization and spin-split electronic bands called altermagnets. Here, by combining density functional theory and symmetry analysis, we show that RuF$_4$…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-19 Marko Milivojević , Marko Orozović , Silvia Picozzi , Martin Gmitra , Srdjan Stavrić

The phenomenon of mesoscopic Spin-Hall effect reveals in a nonequilibrium spin accumulation (driven by electric current) at the edges of a ballistic conductor or, more generally, in the regions with varying electron density. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

Weyl semimetals are well-known for hosting topologically protected linear band crossings, serving as the analog of the relativistic Weyl Fermions in the condensed matter context. Such analogy persists deeply, allowing the existence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Yang Gao