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Electron transport properties in nanostructures can be modeled, for example, by using the semiclassical Wigner formalism or the quantum mechanical Green's functions formalism. We compare the performance and the results of these methods in…

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Curved magnets attract considerable interest for their unusually rich phase diagram, often encompassing exotic (e.g., topological or chiral) spin states. Micromagnetic simulations are playing a central role in the theoretical understanding…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-11 Alexander Edström , Danila Amoroso , Silvia Picozzi , Paolo Barone , Massimiliano Stengel

We investigate the emergence of a topological magnon phase in a two-dimensional kagome ferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) and scalar spin chirality. By incorporating a chiral interaction term proportional to the scalar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Seif Alwan , Jonas Fransson

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…

Magnetic monopole, a hypothetical elementary particle with isolated magnetic pole, is crucial for the quantization of electric charge. In recent years, analogues of magnetic monopoles, represented by topological defects in parameter spaces,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-01 Haiping Hu , Chuanwei Zhang

Manipulating physical properties using the spin degree of freedom constitutes a major part of modern condensed matter physics and is very important for spintronics devices. Using the newly discovered two dimensional van der Waals…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-29 Peiheng Jiang , Lei Li , Zhaoliang Liao , Y. X. Zhao , Zhicheng Zhong

Starting from the hamiltonian for the Heisenberg ferromagnet which comprise randomly distributed nonmagnetic ions as impurities in a Bravais lattice, we express the spin operators by means of the Dyson-Maleev transformation in terms of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-16 Z. J. Weiss , A. R. Massih

To leverage the redundancy between the electronic structure computed at each step of first-principles molecular dynamics, we present a data-driven modeling framework for Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory that bypasses the explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Siu Wun Cheung , Youngsoo Choi , Jean-Luc Fattebert , Jonas Kaufman , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor

Ferro- and ferrimagnets play host to small-signal, microwave-frequency magnetic excitations called spin waves, the quanta of which are known as magnons. Over the last decade, the field of spin-wave dynamics has contributed much to our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Alexy D. Karenowska , Andrew D. Patterson , Michael J. Peterer , Einar B. Magnússon , Peter J. Leek

We propose a novel approach to model amorphous materials using a first principles density functional method while simultaneously enforcing agreement with selected experimental data. We illustrate our method with applications to amorphous…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Parthapratim Biswas , De Nyago Tafen , Raymond Atta-Fynn , D. A. Drabold

We introduce a new quantum embedding method to explore spin-phonon interactions in molecular magnets. This technique consolidates various spin/phonon couplings into a limited number of collective degrees of freedom, allowing for a fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Nosheen Younas , Yu Zhang , Andrei Piryatinski , Eric R Bittner

Excitation of magnons or spin-waves driven by nominally unpolarized transport currents in point contacts of normal and ferromagnetic metals is probed by irradiating the contacts with microwaves. Two characteristic dynamic effects are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 O. P. Balkashin , V. V. Fisun , I. K. Yanson , L. Yu. Triputen , A. Konovalenko , V. Korenivski

The spin structure in a magnetic dot, which is an example of a quantum few-body system, is studied as a function of exchange coupling strength and dot size with in the semiclassical approximation on a discrete lattice. As the exchange…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Mohammad-Reza Mozaffari , Keivan Esfarjani

The physics of phase transitions in low-dimensional systems has long been a subject of significant research interest. Long-range magnetic order in the strict two-dimensional limit, whose discovery circumvented the Mermin-Wagner theorem, has…

Electromechanics in fluids describes the response of the number density to electric fields, and thus provides a powerful means by which to control the behavior of liquids. While continuum approaches have proven successful in describing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-10 Anna T. Bui , Stephen J. Cox

The first magnetic 2D material discovered, monolayer (ML) CrI$_3$, is particularly fascinating due to its ground state ferromagnetism. Yet, because monolayer materials are difficult to probe experimentally, much remains unresolved about ML…

Magnonic topological phases realize chiral edge spin waves that are protected against backscattering, potentially enabling highly efficient spin transport. Here we show that the spin transport through these magnonic chiral edge states can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Pieter M. Gunnink , Rembert A. Duine , Alexander Mook

A method for carrying out semiclassical initial value representation calculations using first-principles molecular dynamics (FP-SC-IVR) is presented. This method can extract the full vibrational power spectrum of carbon dioxide from a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-06-14 Michele Ceotto , Sule Atahan , Sangwoo Shim , Gianfranco Tantardini , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

The low-energy excitations of a spin system can display Bloch bands with non-trivial topological properties. While topological magnons can be identified through the detection of chiral propagating modes at the sample's edge, an intriguing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Baptiste Bermond , Anaïs Defossez , Nathan Goldman

We present a new method to model spin-wave excitations in magnetic solids, based on the Liouville-Lanczos approach to time-dependent density functional perturbation theory. This method avoids computationally expensive sums over empty states…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-23 Tommaso Gorni , Iurii Timrov , Stefano Baroni