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Topological magnons are emergent quantum spin excitations featured by magnon bands crossing linearly at the points dubbed nodes, analogous to fermions in topological electronic systems. Experimental realization of topological magnons in…

In conventional metals, modification of electron trajectories under magnetic field gives rise to a magnetoresistance that varies quadratically at low field, followed by a saturation at high field for closed orbits on the Fermi surface.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-06 Q. Niu , W. C. Yu , K. Y. Yip , Z. L. Lim , H. Kotegawa , E. Matsuoka , H. Sugawara , H. Tou , Y. Yanase , Swee K. Goh

Recently, a class of Dirac semimetals, such as \textrm{Na}$_{\mathrm{3}}% $\textrm{Bi} and \textrm{Cd}$_{\mathrm{2}}$\textrm{As}$_{\mathrm{3}}$, are discovered to carry $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ monopole charges. We present an experimental mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Ming-Xun Deng , Yan-Yan Yang , Wei Luo , R. Ma , Rui-Qiang Wang , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

We performed the detailed magnetotransport measurements and first principle calculations to study the electronic properties of the transition metal dipnictides ZrAs2, which is a topological nodal-line semimetal. Extremely large unsaturated…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-03 Junjian Mi , Sheng Xu , Shuxiang Li , Chenxi Jiang , Zheng Li , Qian Tao , Zhu-An Xu

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator is a topological phase which exhibits chiral edge states in the absence of magnetic field. The celebrated Haldane model is the first example of QAH effect, but difficult to realize. Here, we predict…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-24 H. P. Wang , Wei Luo , H. J. Xiang

Magnons with momentum-dependent chirality are a key signature of altermagnets. We identify bicircular light as a smoking-gun optical probe for chiral altermagnetic magnons, selectively targeting their quantum geometry induced by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Rundong Yuan , Wojciech J. Jankowski , Ka Shen , Robert-Jan Slager

Topological semimetals is a new class of condensed matter systems with nontrivial electronic structure topology. Their unusual observable properties may often be understood in terms of quantum anomalies. In particular, Weyl and Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 A. A. Burkov

PrRhC2 belongs to the rare-earth carbides family whose properties are of special interest among topological semimetals due to the simultaneous breaking of both inversion and time-reversal symmetry. The concomitant absence of both symmetries…

Dirac and Weyl materials possess chiral fermions, which are characterized by nontrivial topology and large Berry curvature. Chiral fermions have nontrivial interactions with magnetic fields and light. In this work, we propose three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Sahal Kaushik

Two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb ferromagnets, such as monolayer chromium-trihalides, are predicted to behave as topological magnon insulators - characterized by an insulating bulk and topologically protected edge states, giving rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 M. Soenen , M. V. Milosevic

Chiral magnons, the quanta of handed spin waves, transport spin angular momentum without energy loss due to Joule heating. The recently discovered altermagnets were proposed to host chiral magnons arising from a non-relativistic exchange…

Chiral anomalies give rise to dissipationless transport phenomena such as the chiral magnetic and vortical effects. In these notes I review the theory from a quantum field theoretic, hydrodynamic and holographic perspective. A physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-01 Karl Landsteiner

CrBr$_3$ is an excellent realization of the two-dimensional honeycomb ferromagnet, which offers a bosonic equivalent of graphene with Dirac magnons and topological character. We perform inelastic neutron scattering (INS) measurements using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-01 S. E. Nikitin , B. Fåk , K. W. Krämer , T. Fennell , B. Normand , A. M. Läuchli , Ch. Rüegg

We present a field theoretical model of anomalous transport in Weyl semi-metals. We calculate the Chiral Magnetic and Chiral Vortical Effect in the electric, axial (valley) and energy current. Our findings coincide with the results of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-26 Karl Landsteiner

In two-dimensional lattice systems, massless Dirac fermions undergo doubling, leading to the cancellation of net chirality. We demonstrate that the recently discovered altermagnetism can induce a unique mass term, the altermagnetic mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Peng-Yi Liu , Yu-Hao Wan , Qing-Feng Sun

The magnetoelectric coupling of electrons in a three-dimensional solid can be effectively described by axion electrodynamics. Here we report the discovery of the fractional magnetoelectric effect in chiral anomalous semimetals of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Huan-Wen Wang , Bo Fu , Jin-Yu Zou , Zi-Ang Hu , Shun-Qing Shen

Despite recent advancements in the study and understanding of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter, the region of high baryonic densities and low temperatures has remained difficult to reach in the lab. Things are expected to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Vivian de la Incera

Weyl semimetals are materials where electrons behave effectively as a kind of massless relativistic particles known asWeyl fermions. These particles occur in two flavours, or chiralities, and are subject to quantum anomalies, the breaking…

In this Letter, we study the magnetic transport in AA-stacked bilayer honeycomb chiral magnets coupled either ferromagnetically or antiferromagnetically. For both couplings, we observe chirality-induced gaps, chiral protected edge states,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-15 S. A. Owerre

We consider the CPT anomaly of two-dimensional chiral U(1) gauge theory on a torus with topologically nontrivial zweibeins corresponding to the presence of spacetime torsion. The resulting chiral determinant can be expressed in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 F. R. Klinkhamer , C. Mayer