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Low dimensional structures comprised of ferroelectric (FE) PbTiO$_3$ (PTO) and quantum paraelectric SrTiO$_3$ (STO) are hosts to complex polarization textures such as polar waves, flux-closure domains and polar skyrmion phases. Density…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-16 Jack S. Baker , David R. Bowler

By utilizing symmetry analysis and electronic structure calculations, we investigated the low-temperature orthorhombic phase of Ag$_{2}$Se in ${\cal SG}$~17. In addition to the discovery of a nodal plane at $k_{z}=\pi$ protected by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Wujun Shi , Gang Li

We propose a concept of non-collinear spin current, whose spin polarization varies in space even in non-magnetic crystals. While it is commonly assumed that the spin polarization of the spin Hall current is uniform, asymmetric local crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Dongwook Go , Moritz Sallermann , Fabian R. Lux , Stefan Blügel , Olena Gomonay , Yuriy Mokrousov

Unlike, momentum-dependent Rashba spin-splitting, materials exhibiting intrinsic momentum-independent unidirectional spin polarization also known as persistent spin texture (PST) in the full Brillouin zone are scarce. In this work, a list…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Manish Kumar Mohanta , Puru Jena

Spin-orbit coupled electronic structure of two representative non-polar half-Heusler alloys, namely 18 electron compound CoZrBi and 8 electron compound SiLiIn have been studied in details. An excursion through the Brillouin zone of these…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-02 Kunal Dutta , Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay , Indra Dasgupta

It is recently noted that in certain centrosymmetric compounds, spin-orbit interaction couples each local sector that lacks inversion symmetry and thus leads to visible spin polarization effects in the real space, dubbed as 'hidden spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Yingjie Zhang , Pengfei Liu , Hongyi Sun , Hu Xu , Qihang Liu

We present a formalism based on colour symmetry to analyse the momentum-space spin textures of non-collinear antiferromagnets. We show that, out of the spin textures allowed by the magnetic point group, \textcolor{\altcolor} {one can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 Paolo G. Radaelli , Gautam Gurung

This work discusses the rich phase diagram of non-trivial chiral spin textures in confined ferromagnetic/heavy-metal (FM/HM) bilayer nanomagnets of circular cross-section. These spin textures are realized as a minimum-energy ground state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Nimisha Arora , Yogesh Kumar , Pintu Das

Photonic spin texture (PST), the spatial distribution of the spin angular momentum (SAM) of light, is connected to unique properties of light, such as optical skyrmions and topological optical N-invariants. There has been recent progress on…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-26 Shoaib Mahmud , Wei Zhang , Farid Kalhor , Pronoy Das , Zubin Jacob

Spin-orbit coupling effects occurring in non-centrosymmetric materials are known to be responsible for non-trivial spin configurations and a number of emergent physical phenomena. Ferroelectric materials may be especially interesting in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-05 L. L. Tao , Tula R. Paudel , Alexey A. Kovalev , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We demonstrate that discontinuous shear thickening (DST) can occur even in moderately dense, inertial suspensions of hydrodynamically interacting, frictionless soft particles. Using the Lubrication-Friction Discrete Element Method, our…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-28 Satoshi Takada , Kazuhiro Hara , Hisao Hayakawa

We probe for statistical and Coulomb induced spin textures among the low-lying states of repulsively-interacting particles confined to potentials that are both rotationally and time-reversal invariant. In particular, we focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-08 Catherine J. Stevenson , Jordan Kyriakidis

Non-Hermitian systems have been discussed mostly in the context of open systems and nonequilibrium. Recent experimental progress is much from optical, cold-atomic, and classical platforms due to the vast tunability and clear identification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

We study the possibility of triply-degenerate points (TPs) that can be stabilized in spinless crystalline systems. Based on an exhaustive search over all 230 space groups, we find that the spinless TPs can exist at both high-symmetry points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Xiaolong Feng , Weikang Wu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Shengyuan A. Yang

Relativistic spin-orbit coupling plays an essential role in the field of topological insulators and quantum spintronics. It gives rise to the topological non-trivial band structure and enables electric manipulation of the spin degree of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Haijun Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Nonlinear electrical conduction primarily mediated by an orbital texture is observed in chiral semiconductor Te. We determine the enantiospecific sign of the nonlinear conductance and identify anomalies in its carrier-density dependence.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Suguru Okumura , Ryutaro Tanaka , Daichi Hirobe

The shear-transformation-zone (STZ) theory of plastic deformation predicts that sufficiently soft, non-crystalline solids are linearly unstable against forming periodic arrays of microstructural shear bands. A limited nonlinear analysis…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 J. S. Langer

The spin-orbital polarization of superconducting excitations in momentum space is shown to provide distinctive marks of unconventional pairing in the presence of inversion symmetry breaking.Taking the prototypical example of an electronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-02 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

This research investigates the implication of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and symmetry on the band topology and spin texture at the (001) surface of BiInO$_3$. Using density functional theory (DFT) and symmetry analysis, the study explores…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-27 Ramsamoj Kewat , Nirmal Ganguli

Hybrid organic--inorganic perovskites with broken inversion symmetry provide a fertile ground for uncovering coupled spin-orbit and ferroelectric phenomena. Here, we investigate the layered family (PA)$_2$CsY$_2$X$_7$ (Y = Pb, Sn; X = I,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-01 Divyanshi Tyagi , Saswata Bhattacharya