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Magnetic topological insulators host exotic phenomena such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect and quantized magnetoelectric responses, but dynamic electrical control of their topological phases remains elusive. Here we demonstrate from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Rajibul Islam , Shakeel Ahmad , Fei Xue

We investigate quantum oscillation measurements in the Dirac nodal-line semimetal TaNiTe$_5$ which exhibit a strongly enhanced amplitude in the magnetoresistance. We show that mechanical properties of the measurement setup in combination…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-04 Maximilian Daschner , Ivan Kokanović , F. Malte Grosche

The thermoelectric transport properties of nanostructured devices continue to attract attention from theorists and experimentalist alike as the spatial confinement allows for a controlled approach to transport properties of correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Stefan Kirchner , Farzaneh Zamani , Enrique Muñoz

We propose a two-spin quantum-mechanical model with applied magnetic fields acting on the Poincar\'e-Bloch sphere, to reveal a new class of topological energy bands with Chern number one half for each spin-1/2. The mechanism behind this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Joel Hutchinson , Karyn Le Hur

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 show in this paper that the technologically relevant field-like spin-orbit torque shows resilience against the geometrical effect of electron backscattering. As device grows smaller in sizes, the effect of geometry on physical properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Seng Ghee Tan , Che-Chun Huang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Ching-Ray Chang , Szu-Cheng Cheng

We demonstrate that the non-Hermitian quantum geometric tensor (QGT) governs nonlinear electrical responses in systems with a spectral line gap. The quantum metric, which is the symmetric component of the QGT and takes complex values in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Kai Chen , Jie Zhu

We experimentally observe the quantum geometric tensor, namely the quantum metric and the Berry curvature, for a square lattice of radiatively coupled plasmonic nanoparticles. We observe a non-zero Berry curvature and show that it arises…

Topological quantum matter and spintronics research have been developed to a large extent independently. In this Review we discuss a new role that the antiferromagnetic order has taken in combining topological matter and spintronics. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-06 L. Šmejkal , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

We predict from first principles an entirely topological orbital magnetization in the noncoplanar bulk antiferromagnet $\gamma$-FeMn originating in the nontrivial topology of the underlying spin structure, without any reference to…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-23 Jan-Philipp Hanke , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

The magneto-optical effects (MOEs), as a fundamental physical phenomenon, can reveal the electronic structures of materials. The related probing methods are widely used in the study of magnetic materials. However, space-time inversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-07 Yongpan Li , Yichen Liu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

The realization of Dirac and Weyl physics in solids has made topological materials one of the main focuses of condensed matter physics. Recently, the topic of topological nodal line semimetals, materials in which Dirac or Weyl-like…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-13 Shuo-Ying Yang , Hao Yang , Elena Derunova , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Binghai Yan , Mazhar N. Ali

Topological semimetals are three-dimensional topological states of matter, in which the conduction and valence bands touch at a finite number of points, i.e., the Weyl nodes. Topological semimetals host paired monopoles and antimonopoles of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

The discovery of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators more than a decade ago has revolutionized modern condensed matter physics. Today, the field of topological states of matter is one of the most active and fruitful…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-24 Stephan Rachel

Electrostatic charges placed near the interface between ordinary and topological insulators induce magnetic fields, through the so-called topological magnetoelectric effect. Here, we present a numerical implementation of the associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Josep Planelles , Jose L. Movilla , Juan I. Climente

It has recently been found that bosonic excitations of ordered media, such as phonons or spinons, can exhibit topologically nontrivial band structures. Of particular interest are magnon and triplon excitations in quantum magnets, as they…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-10 Darshan G. Joshi , Andreas P. Schnyder

Topological phases supported by quasi-periodic spin-chain models and their bulk-boundary principles are investigated by numerical and K-theoretic methods. We show that, for both the un-correlated and correlated phases, the operator algebras…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-13 Yifei Liu , Lea F. Santos , Emil Prodan

Based on empirical evidence, quantum systems appear to be strictly linear and gauge invariant. This work uses concise mathematics to show that quantum eigenvalue equations on a one dimensional ring can either be gauge invariant or have a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Arthur Davidson

We demonstrate that the spin orientation of an electron propagating in a one-dimensional nanostructure with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling can be manipulated on demand by changing the geometry of the nanosystem. Shape deformations that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 Zu-Jian Ying , Paola Gentile , Carmine Ortix , Mario Cuoco

We propose ferromagnetism that occurs in electrons at a saddle point with band touching, which we call the singular saddle point. At the singular saddle point, the divergent quantum metric induces ferromagnetic correlation, and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-14 Taisei Kitamura , Hiroki Nakai , Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase