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Topological phase in magnetic materials yields a quantized contribution to the Hall effect known as the topological Hall effect, which is often caused by skyrmions, with each skyrmion creating a magnetic flux quantum h/e. The control and…

A material's electronic topology, which is generally described via its Bloch states and the associated bandstructure, will be enriched by the presence of interactions. In metallic settings, the interactions are usually treated through the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-20 D. M. Kirschbaum , L. Chen , D. A. Zocco , H. Hu , F. Mazza , J. Larrea Jiménez , A. M. Strydom , D. Adroja , X. Yan , A. Prokofiev , Q. Si , S. Paschen

Electrons moving through a noncoplanar magnetic texture acquire a Berry phase, which can be described as an effective magnetic field. This effect is known as the topological Hall effect and has been observed in topological spin textures.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Tan Dao , Sergey S. Pershoguba , Jiadong Zang

Unveiling new topological phases of matter is one of the current objectives in condensed matter physics. Recent experimental discoveries of Dirac and Weyl semimetals prompt to search for other exotic phases of matter. Here we present a…

Topological insulators are electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator, but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. The 2D topological insulator is a quantum spin Hall insulator, which is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Z. Hasan , C. L. Kane

The topological Hall effect (THE), given by a composite of electric and topologically non-trivial spin texture is commonly observed in magnetic skyrmion crystals. Here we present a study of the THE of electrons coupled to antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-03 M. Tomé , H. D. Rosales

When electrons are subject to a large external magnetic field, the conventional charge quantum Hall effect \cite{Klitzing,Tsui} dictates that an electronic excitation gap is generated in the sample bulk, but metallic conduction is permitted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-08 D. Hsieh , D. Qian , L. Wray , Y. Xia , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

The topological Hall effect (THE), as one of the primary manifestations of non-trivial topology of chiral skyrmions, is traditionally used to detect the emergence of skyrmion lattices with locally ferromagnetic order. In this work we…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-18 Patrick M. Buhl , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

Skyrmions are spatially localized magnetic swirls which carry a nonzero integer topological charge. We study crystals of skyrmions in a two-dimensional ferromagnet model with chiral interactions induced by the presence of broken inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-22 Sopheak Sorn , Stefan Divic , Arun Paramekanti

In this work we predict several new types of topological semimetals that exhibit a bulk quadrupole moment. These semimetals are modeled with a 3D extension of the 2D quadrupole topological insulator. One type of semimetal has bulk nodes and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Mao Lin , Taylor L. Hughes

Topological textures like vortices, labyrinths and skyrmions formed in ferroic materials have attracted extensive interests during the past decade for their fundamental physics, intriguing topology, and technological prospects. So far,…

Magnetic skyrmion crystals with zero net skyrmion charge and zero topological Hall response are interesting candidate phases which can occur at a vanishing magnetic field in centrosymmetric systems. We study a minimal bilayer model of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Andrew Hardy , Anjishnu Bose , Tanmay Grover , Arun Paramekanti

The synergy between non-Hermitian concepts and topological ideas have led to very fruitful activity in the recent years. Their interplay has resulted in a wide variety of new non-Hermitian topological phenomena being discovered. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Ayan Banerjee , Ronika Sarkar , Soumi Dey , Awadhesh Narayan

Topological semimetals with different types of band crossings provide a rich platform to realize novel fermionic excitations, known as topological fermions. In particular, some fermionic excitations can be direct analogues of elementary…

Topological semimetals are a new class of metallic materials, which exist at band fillings that ordinarily correspond to insulators or compensated accidental semimetals with zero Luttinger volume. Their metallicity is a result of nontrivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-05 Lei Gioia , Chong Wang , A. A. Burkov

Topological phases realized in time-reversal invariant (TRI) systems are foundational to experimental study of the broader canon of topological condensed matter as they do not require exotic magnetic orders for realization. We therefore…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 R. Flores-Calderon , Ashley M. Cook

The discovery of topological semimetals with multifold band crossings has opened up a new and exciting frontier in the field of topological physics. These materials exhibit large Chern numbers, leading to long double Fermi arcs on their…

Skyrmion lattices as a novel type of chiral spin states are attracting increasing attention, owing to their peculiar properties stemming from real-space topological properties. At the same time, the properties of magnetic Weyl semimetals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 M. Redies , F. R. Lux , J. -P. Hanke , P. M. Buhl , S. Blügel , Y. Mokrousov

Electron motion in crystals is governed by the coupling between crystal momentum and internal degrees of freedom such as spin implicit in the band structure. The description of this coupling in terms of a momentum-dependent effective field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 F. Couëdo , H. Irie , T. Akiho , K. Suzuki , K. Onomitsu , K. Muraki

The surface of a Weyl semimetal (WSM) displays Fermi arcs, i.e. disjoint segments of a two-dimensional Fermi contour. We present a quantum-mechanical non-local theory of chiral Fermi arc plasmons in WSMs with broken time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-02 Gian Marcello Andolina , Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Frank H. L. Koppens , Marco Polini