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Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can induce spin polarization in nonmagnetic 3D crystals when the inversion symmetry is broken, as manifested by the bulk Rashba (R-1) and Dresselhaus (D-1) effects. We determine that these spin polarization effects…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-18 Xiuwen Zhang , Qihang Liu , Jun-Wei Luo , Arthur. J. Freeman , Alex Zunger

Crystals are the materials which can be described by uniform periodic lattices. Traditionally, only the 1-, 2-, 3-, 4- and 6-fold rotation symmetries are allowed in crystals because other n-fold rotation symmetries are forbidden by the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-02 Chaoyu He , Jianxin Zhong

Skyrmions, topologically stable spin textures, are of great interest for new generations of spintronic devices. In general, the stabilization of skyrmions has been achieved in systems with broken inversion symmetry, where the asymmetric…

Crossings of energy bands in solids that are not pinned at symmetry points in the Brillouin zone and yet cannot be removed by perturbations are thought to be conditioned on the presence of a nonsymmorphic symmetry. In this Letter we show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-19 Mariana Malard , Paulo Eduardo de Brito , Stellan Ostlund , Henrik Johannesson

Magnetic skyrmion crystals are traditionally associated with non-centrosymmetric crystal structures; however, it has been demonstrated that skyrmion crystals can be stabilized by competing interactions in centrosymmetric crystals. To…

We address evolution of a spinor polariton condensate in radially periodic potentials. Such potentials allow for the observation of novel nonlinear excitations and support a variety of dynamically stable soliton states never demonstrated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Dmitry V. Skryabin , Ivan A. Shelykh

For certain non-magnetic solids with low symmetry the occurrence of spin-polarized longitudinal currents is predicted. These arise due to an interplay of spin-orbit interaction and the particular crystal symmetry. This result is derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 S. Wimmer , M. Seemann , K. Chadova , D. Ködderitzsch , H. Ebert

Chiral spin textures are researched widely in condensed matter systems and show potential for spintronics and storage applications. Along with extensive condensed-matter studies of chiral spin textures, photonic counterparts of these…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-14 Peng Shi , Luping Du , Mingjie Li , Xiaocong Yuan

Recent theoretical work has established the presence of hidden spin and orbital textures in non-magnetic materials with inversion symmetry. Here, we propose that these textures can be detected by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-11 Jorge Ramírez-Ruiz , Samuel Boutin , Ion Garate

I theoretically propose an emergence of nonlinear nonreciprocal transport in centrosymmetric magnets with topological spin textures. By focusing on the stacking degree of freedom of the skyrmion crystals on a layered triangular lattice, I…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Satoru Hayami

Crystals spontaneously break the continuous translation symmetry in space, despite the invariance of the underlying energy function. This has triggered suggestions of time crystals analogously lifting translational invariance in time.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 A. Greilich , N. E. Kopteva , A. N. Kamenskii , P. S. Sokolov , V. L. Korenev , M. Bayer

The nontrivial topology of spin systems such as skyrmions in real space can promote complex electronic states. Here, we provide a general viewpoint at the emergence of topological electronic states in spin systems based on the methods of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-16 Fabian R. Lux , Sumit Ghosh , Pascal Prass , Emil Prodan , Yuriy Mokrousov

In this paper we address the characterization of the structure of condensed materials, periodic and non-periodic. Carrying out an extensive study of over 7000 different groundstate structures of a 2D lattice model of binary packing, we find…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-21 Ian Douglass , Peter Harrowell

Symmetry-protected topological phases have been a central theme in condensed matter physics and beyond over the past two decades. Most efforts have focused on topological classifications of physical systems under given symmetries, while the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 J. X. Dai , Y. X. Zhao

Polarization independent Mie scattering of building blocks is foundational for constructions of optical systems with robust functionalities. Conventional studies for such polarization independence are generally restricted to special states…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-25 Qingdong Yang , Weijin Chen , Yuntian Chen , Wei Liu

The representation theory of de Sitter space admits partially massless (PM) particles, but whether such particles can participate in consistent interacting theories remains unclear. We investigate the consistency of theories containing PM…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-09 Daniel Baumann , Kurt Hinterbichler , Callum R. T. Jones , Austin Joyce , Hayden Lee , Jiajie Mei , Nathan Meurrens

We describe recent progress in our understanding of the interplay between interactions, symmetry, and topology in states of quantum matter. We focus on a minimal generalization of the celebrated topological band insulators to interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 T. Senthil

Recent studies identified spin-order-driven phenomena such as spin-charge interconversion without relying on the relativistic spin-orbit interaction. Those physical properties can be prominent in systems containing light magnetic atoms due…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-01 Hikaru Watanabe , Kohei Shinohara , Takuya Nomoto , Atsushi Togo , Ryotaro Arita

Topological materials host robust surface states, which could form the basis for future electronic devices. As such states have spins that are locked to the momentum, they are of particular interest for spintronic applications.…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-05 Yuefeng Yin , Michael S. Fuhrer , Nikhil V. Medhekar

The symmetry of a material fundamentally governs its spin transport properties. While unconventional spin transport phenomena have been predominantly explored in low-symmetry systems (e.g., $C_{1v}$ symmetry), high-symmetry crystals--which…