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Topological magnons are bosonic analogues of topological fermions in electronic systems. They have been studied extensively by theory but rarely realized by experiment. Here, by performing inelastic neutron scattering measurements on single…

The altermagnetism influences the electronic states allowing the presence of non-relativistic spinsplittings. Since altermagnetic spin-splitting is present along specific k-paths of the 3D Brillouin zone, we expect that the altermagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-14 Raghottam M Sattigeri , Giuseppe Cuono , Carmine Autieri

We propose to implement tunable higher-order topological states in a heterojunction consisting of a two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator and the recently discovered altermagnets, whose unique spin-polarization in both real and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Yu-Xuan Li , Yichen Liu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

Altermagnets are colinear compensated magnets whose magnetic symmetries at zero spin-orbit coupling break spin degeneracy leading to spin-split electronic and magnonic bands that reflect an underlying multipolar order. When there is an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-15 P. A. McClarty , A. Gukasov , J. G. Rau

The Hamiltonian of a two dimensional (2D) magnetic material in the strong correlation regime with a spin texture, for which both azimuthal and polar angle changes, is solved using $su(2)$ path integral method. The dependence of the Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Kaushal Kumar Kesharpu

Two-dimensional (2D) metallic altermagnets present exciting opportunities for both fundamental research and practical innovations. Their ability to enhance tunneling magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions, combined with the direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Raghottam M. Sattigeri , Xujia Gong , Amar Fakhredine , Carmine Autieri , Giuseppe Cuono

Altermagnetism is a novel magnetic phase combining characteristics of both antiferromagnetism and ferromagnetic ordering. Despite growing theoretical interest in altermagnetic materials, reports of experimentally verified high Neel…

Topological invariants play a key role in the characterization of topological states. Due to the existence of exceptional points, it is a great challenge to detect topological invariants in non-Hermitian systems. We put forward a dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Bo Zhu , Yongguan Ke , Honghua Zhong , Chaohong Lee

The real Chern insulator state, featuring nontrivial real Chern number and second-order boundary modes, has been revealed in a few two-dimensional systems. The concept can be extended to three dimensions (3D), but a proper material…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-28 Xu-Tao Zeng , Bin-Bin Liu , Fan Yang , Zeying Zhang , Y. X. Zhao , Xian-Lei Sheng , Shengyuan A. Yang

Topological insulators are a novel state of matter that share a common feature: their spectral bands are associated with a nonlocal integer-valued index, commonly manifesting through quantized bulk phenomena and robust boundary effects. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Ioannis Petrides , Oded Zilberberg

Altermagnetism is a collinear compensated magnetically-ordered phase with a d, g or i-wave anisotropy and alternating spin polarization of the electronic structure in the position and momentum space. Its recent discovery was in part…

If an extensive partition in two dimensions yields a gapful entanglement spectrum of the reduced density matrix, the Berry curvature based on the corresponding entanglement eigenfunction defines the Chern number. We propose such an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 T. Fukui , Y. Hatsugai

We propose a novel ferroelectric switchable altermagnetism effect, the reversal of ferroelectric polarization is coupled to the switching of altermagnetic spin splitting. We demonstrate the design principles for the ferroelectric…

Recent progress in spintronics within the paradigm of altermagnets (AMs) opens new avenues for next-generation electronic device design. Here, we establish a spin-corner locking mechanism that generates second-order topological states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Ning-Jing Yang , Zhigao Huang , Jian-Min Zhang

The aim of this series of two papers is to discuss topological invariants for interacting topological insulators (TIs). In the first paper (I), we provide a paradigm of efficient numerical evaluation scheme for topological invariants, in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-08 Yuan-Yao He , Han-Qing Wu , Zi Yang Meng , Zhong-Yi Lu

Two-dimensional topological materials (TMs) have a variety of properties that make them attractive for applications including spintronics and quantum computation. However, there are only a few such experimentally known materials. To help…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-08 Kamal Choudhary , Kevin F. Garrity , Jie Jiang , Ruth Pachter , Francesca Tavazza

Combining field-theoretical methods and ab-initio calculations, we construct an effective Hamiltonian with a single giant-spin degree of freedom, capable of the describing the low-energy spin dynamics of ferromagnetic metal nanoclusters…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-28 T. O. Strandberg , C. M. Canali , A. H. MacDonald

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials with nontrivial topological states have drawn considerable attention recently. Among them, 2D metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are standing out due to their advantages, such as the easy synthesis in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-26 Cui-Qun Chen , Xiao-Sheng Ni , Dao-Xin Yao , Yusheng Hou

Topology has appeared in different physical contexts. The most prominent application is topologically protected edge transport in condensed matter physics. The Chern number, the topological invariant of gapped Bloch Hamiltonians, is an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Thomas Fösel , Vittorio Peano , Florian Marquardt

Strongly correlated quantum systems can exhibit exotic behavior controlled by topology. We predict that the \nu=1/2 fractional Chern insulator arises naturally in a two-dimensional array of driven, dipolar-interacting spins. As a specific…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-08 Norman Y. Yao , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Chris R. Laumann , Andreas M. Läuchli , Jun Ye , Mikhail D. Lukin