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Two-dimensional hexagonal and oblique lattices were investigated theoretically with the aim of observing differences in the spin expectation values between chiral and achiral systems. The spinresolved band structures were derived from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 N. K. Lewis , P. J. Durham , W. R. Flavell , E. A. Seddon

Owing to their relevance for spintronics, electronic band splitting and spin-polarization textures in magnets are active areas of research. In non-collinear magnets, alternating spin textures can arise both for isolated bands and for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Moritz M. Hirschmann , Akira Furusaki , Max Hirschberger

We examine the ordering, pinning, and dynamics of two-dimensional pattern forming systems interacting with a periodic one-dimensional substrate. In the absence of the substrate, particles with competing long-range repulsion and short-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-29 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Magnetic inertial dynamics has recently been predicted and experimentally demonstrated in two-sublattice ferromagnets such as CoFeB and NiFe permalloy. In this work, we investigate the spin-wave spectrum of such systems by incorporating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Subhadip Ghosh , Darpa Narayan Basu , Ritwik Mondal

Optical spin textures with nontrivial topology hold promise for structured light and photonic information processing, yet their generation typically relies heavily on externally structured light with care. This raises questions about their…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-23 Di Liu , Han Liu , Zheng Xi

Chiral semiconductors such as elemental tellurium (Te) exhibit unconventional spin textures and large charge-to-spin conversion efficiencies, yet the influence of introducing elements on these properties remains underexplored. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-10 Sonam Phuntsho

We propose an alternative experimental protocol for the detection of doped Chern insulators and chiral superconductors. Our approach relies on coupling the target chiral system to adatom spins. Due to the substrate chirality, the adatom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Yun-Peng Huang , Panagiotis Kotetes

Topological chiral phases are ubiquitous in the physics of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect. Non-chiral topological spin liquids are also well known. Here, using the framework of projected entangled pair states (PEPS), we construct a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-10 Didier Poilblanc , J. Ignacio Cirac , Norbert Schuch

Materials that break time-reversal or inversion symmetry possess nondegenerate electronic bands, which can touch at so-called Weyl points. The spinor eigenstates in the vicinity of a Weyl point exhibit a well-defined chirality $\pm 1$.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Andy Knoll , Carsten Timm

Space-time (ST) wave packets are propagation-invariant pulsed optical beams that travel freely in dielectrics at a tunable group velocity without diffraction or dispersion. Because ST wave packets maintain these characteristics even when…

Because surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are surface waves characterized by one free transverse dimension, the only monochromatic diffraction-free spatial profiles for SPPs are cosine and Airy waves. Pulsed SPP wave packets have been…

According to the mathematical classification of topological band structures, there exist a number of fascinating topological states in dimensions larger than three with exotic boundary phenomena and interesting topological responses. While…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Rui Yu , Y. X. Zhao , Andreas P. Schnyder

A large class of symmetry-protected topological phases (SPT) in boson / spin systems have been recently predicted by the group cohomology theory. In this work, we consider SPT states at least with charge symmetry (U(1) or Z$_N$) or spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-12 Peng Ye , Juven Wang

SrTiO$_3$ (STO) is the substrate of choice to grow oxide thin-films and oxide heterojunctions, which can form quasi-two-dimensional electronic phases that exhibit a wealth of phenomena, and, thus, a workhorse in the emerging field of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 Soham S. Ghosh , Efstratios Manousakis

We propose and implement a novel hybrid meta-heuristic optimization algorithm for the identification of non-collinear global ground-states in magnetic systems. The inputs to this optimization scheme are directly from non-collinear density…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-03 Guy C. Moore , Matthew K. Horton , Kristin A. Persson

Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SPSTM) was used to directly image nanoscale N\'eel skyrmions in a SrIrO3 / SrRuO3 bilayer system that are among the smallest reported to date in any system. Off-axis magnetron sputtering was…

In this work, we investigate the emergence of topological spin textures in a ferromagnetically coupled bilayer chiral magnet by means of Monte Carlo simulations of a classical spin model including exchange interaction, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-13 Gülşen Doğan , Ümit Akıncı

Spin coating is an out-of-equilibrium technique for producing polymer films and colloidal crystals quickly and reproducibly. In this review, we present an overview of theoretical and experimental studies of the spin coating of colloidal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-26 Moorthi Pichumani , Payam Bagheri , Kristin M. Poduska , Wenceslao Gonzalez-Vinas , Anand Yethiraj

Using variational algorithm on an infinite Shastry-Sutherland (SS) lattice we show that the introduction of a static nonmagnetic impurity into a dimerized ground state leads to a formation of a small, localized spin polaron surrounding the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. El Shawish , J. Bonca

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically wound nanoscale textures of spins whose ambient stability and electrical manipulation in multilayer films have led to an explosion of research activities. While past efforts focused predominantly on…