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In a topological insulator (TI)/magnetic insulator (MI) hetero-structure, large spin-orbit coupling of the TI and inversion symmetry breaking at the interface could foster non-planar spin textures such as skyrmions at the interface. This is…

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Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin structures that naturally emerge in magnetic materials. While a vast amount of effort has gone into the study of their properties, their counterpart of opposite topological charge, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-01 Juan C. Criado , Peter D. Hatton , Sebastian Schenk , Michael Spannowsky , Luke A. Turnbull

Photonic structures offer unique opportunities for controlling light-matter interaction, including the photonic spin Hall effect associated with the transverse spin-dependent displacement of light that propagates in specially designed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 A. P. Slobozhanyuk , A. N. Poddubny , I. S. Sinev , A. K. Samusev , Y. F. Yu , A. I. Kuznetsov , A. E. Miroshnichenko , Yu. S. Kivshar

We show that the two dimensional spatial inversion-symmetry (SIS) broken square lattice antiferromagnet with easy-plane spin anisotropy exhibits a thermal Hall effect and the edge modes characterized by the Z 2 topological invariant. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-22 Masataka Kawano , Chisa Hotta

Integrating topologically stabilized magnetic textures such as skyrmions as nanoscale information carriers into future technologies requires the reliable control by electric currents. Here, we uncover that the relevant skyrmion Hall effect,…

Topological insulators are electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator, but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. The 2D topological insulator is a quantum spin Hall insulator, which is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Z. Hasan , C. L. Kane

The exploration of topological states is of significant fundamental and practical importance in contemporary condensed matter physics, for which the extension to two-dimensional (2D) organometallic systems is particularly attractive. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Hyun-Jung Kim , Chaokai Li , Ji Feng , Jun-Hyung Cho , Zhenyu Zhang

Topological Surface States (TSS) represent new types of two dimensional electron systems with novel and unprecedented properties distinct from any quantum Hall-like or spin-Hall effects. Their Z$_2$ topological order can be realized at room…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , David Hsieh , L. Andrew Wray , Yuqi Xia

Inducing long-range magnetic order in three-dimensional topological insulators can gap the Diraclike metallic surface states, leading to exotic new phases such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect or the axion insulator state. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-20 Semonti Bhattacharyya , Golrokh Akhgar , Matt Gebert , Julie Karel , Mark T Edmonds , Michael S Fuhrer

The fabrication technique of freestanding oxide flakes by epitaxial lift-off has made significant contributions to the multifunctional oxide thin film research. Several highly impactful work have recently demonstrated the robustness of…

Skyrmions, novel topologically stable spin vortices, hold promise for next-generation magnetic storage due to their nanoscale domains to enable high information storage density and their low threshold for current-driven motion to enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Dong Liang , John P. DeGrave , Matthew J. Stolt , Yoshinori Tokura , Song Jin

In recent times, there has been a surge of interest in utilizing manganite systems for oxide-based heterostructures that host non-trivial spin textures, primarily driven by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). In these systems, the…

Competing ground states may lead to topologically constrained excitations such as domain walls or quasiparticles, which govern metastable states and their dynamics. Domain walls and more exotic topological excitations are well studied in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Carl Merrigan , Cristiano Nisoli , Yair Shokef

Magnetic frustrated systems have resurged in spintronics as optimal candidates for hosting three dimensional topological solitons, such as Shankar skyrmions and 4$\pi$-vortices, and other singular topological defects. These topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Ricardo Zarzuela , Jairo Sinova

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

Depositing monolayer graphene on a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductor substrate has been shown to change the dynamics of the electronic states in graphene, inducing spin orbit coupling (SOC) and staggered potential effects.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Abdulrhman M. Alsharari , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Sergio E. Ulloa

We investigate a generalized multi-orbital tight-binding model on a triangular lattice, a system prevalent in a wide range of two-dimensional materials, and particularly relevant for simulating transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Anderson L. R. Barbosa , Luis M. Canonico , Jose H. García , Tatiana G. Rappoport

Topological insulators are quantum materials that have an insulating bulk state and a topologically protected metallic surface state with spin and momentum helical locking and a Dirac-like band structure. Unique and fascinating electronic…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-21 Zengji Yue , Xiaolin Wang , Min Gu

Topological Hall effect (THE) is a hallmark of scalar spin chirality, which is found in static skyrmion lattices. Recent theoretical works have shown that scalar spin chirality could also emerge dynamically from thermal spin fluctuations.…

The ferrimagnet TbMn6Sn6 has attracted vast attention, because its pristine Mn kagome lattice with strong spin-orbit coupling and out-of-plane Tb-Mn exchange supports quantum-limit Chern topological magnetism which can be described by the…