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Magnetic skyrmions are intriguing topological spin textures that have attracted great attention due to their potential for future spintronic devices. Skyrmions have so far been explored in different magnetic materials, such as ferromagnets,…

In this work we will explore the properties of superconducting surfaces decorated by two-dimensional ferromagnetic adatom lattices. As discovered recently [R\"ontynen and Ojanen, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{114}, 236803 (2015)], in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Joel Röntynen , Teemu Ojanen

Spin chirality provides a powerful route to control magnetic and topological phases in materials, enabling next-generation spintronic and quantum technologies. Coplanar noncollinear antiferromagnets with Kagome lattice spin geometries host…

Interfacing rare-earth doped crystals with superconducting circuit architectures provides an attractive platform for quantum memory and transducer devices. Here we present the detailed characterization of such a hybrid system: a locally…

Graphene can be turned into a semimetal with broken time-reversal symmetry by adding a valley-dependent pseudo-scalar potential that shifts the Dirac point energies in opposite directions, as in the modified Haldane model. We consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-16 Marwa Mannaï , Jean-Noël Fuchs , Frédéric Piéchon , Sonia Haddad

We demonstrate that nanoconfinement effects and in-plane magnetic anisotropy (IMA) can lead to tilted chiral spin textures in magnetic nanostructures, based on the analysis and simulation of theoretical models of micromagnetism. The tilted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Wenlei Fu , Haiming Dong , Kai Chang

Chiral magnetic textures are key for the development of modern spintronic devices. In multilayered thin films, these are typically stabilized via the interfacial intralayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Additionally, it has been…

We study odd-parity nematic superconductivity in doped topological insulators in presence of surface magnetic impurities. The peculiar surface subgap spectrum, characterized by a Majorana flatband, nodal cones and the surface states of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-25 Luca Chirolli

Scalable quantum technologies require faithful conversion between matter qubits storing the quantum information and photonic qubits carrying the information in integrated circuits and waveguides. We demonstrate that the electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 R. J. Coles , D. M. Price , J. E. Dixon , B. Royall , E. Clarke , A. M. Fox , P. Kok , M. S. Skolnick , M. N. Makhonin

Fully gapped two-dimensional superconductors coupled to dynamical electromagnetism are known to exhibit topological order. In this work, we develop a unified low-energy description for spin-singlet paired states by deriving topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-17 Sergej Moroz , Abhinav Prem , Victor Gurarie , Leo Radzihovsky

Chiral spin-triplet superconductivity is a topologically nontrivial pairing state with broken time-reversal symmetry, which can host Majorana quasiparticles. The recently discovered heavy-fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ exhibits peculiar…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-25 K. Ishihara , M. Roppongi , M. Kobayashi , Y. Mizukami , H. Sakai , Y. Haga , K. Hashimoto , T. Shibauchi

Motivated by the recent experiments indicating a spin-unpolarized \nu=0 quantum Hall state in graphene, we theoretically investigate the ground state based on the many-body problem projected onto the n=0 Landau level. For an effective model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yuji Hamamoto , Tohru Kawarabayashi , Hideo Aoki , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

We investigate the spin and charge densities of surface states of the three-dimensional topological insulator $Bi_2Se_3$, starting from the continuum description of the material [Zhang {\em et al.}, Nat. Phys. 5, 438 (2009)]. The spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 P. G. Silvestrov , P. W. Brouwer , E. G. Mishchenko

Noncollinear chiral spin textures in ferromagnetic multilayers are at the forefront of recent research in nano-magnetism with the promise for fast and energy-efficient devices. The recently demonstrated possibilities to stabilize such…

The electronic structure of selected rare-earth atoms adsorbed on a free-standing graphene was investigated using methods beyond the conventional density functional theory (DFT+U, DFT+HIA and DFT+ED). The influence of the electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-12 Agnieszka L. Kozub , Alexander B. Shick , Frantisek Maca , Jindrich Kolorenc , Alexander I. Lichtenstein

In recent years, correlated insulating states, unconventional superconductivity, and topologically non-trivial phases have all been observed in several moir\'e heterostructures. However, understanding of the physical mechanisms behind these…

The angular momentum quantization of chiral gapless modes confined to a circularly shaped interface between two different topological phases is investigated. By examining several different setups, we show analytically that the angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Marko M. Grujić , Milan Ž. Tadić , François M. Peeters

We show that spin-polarized local density of states (LDOS) measurements can uniquely determine the chiral nature of topologically protected edge states surrounding a ferromagnetic island embedded in a conventional superconductor with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-18 Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We established a large class of exactly soluble spin liquids and chiral spin liquids on three dimensional helix lattices by introducing Kitaev-type's spin coupling. In the chiral spin liquids, exact stable ground states with spontaneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-07 Tieyan Si , Yue Yu

We investigate chiral superconductivity which occurs in the electronic nematic state. A vortex state in a $c$-axis magnetic field is studied on the basis of the two-component Ginzburg-Landau model for nematic-chiral superconductors. It is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-09 Shuhei Takamatsu , Youichi Yanase