English
Related papers

Related papers: Designing Optimal Distorted-Octahedra Superlattice…

200 papers

The past decade has witnessed a booming development of topological photonics, which revolutionizes the methodology for controlling the behavior of light. A gigantic achievement is to engineer robust confined modes localized at interfaces…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-09 Mengying Hu , Hui Liu , Shining Zhu

Topological materials exhibit protected edge modes that have been proposed for applications in for example spintronics and quantum computation. While a number of such systems exist, it would be desirable to be able to test theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-15 Robert Drost , Teemu Ojanen , Ari Harju , Peter Liljeroth

The topological Hall effect (THE) and its thermoelectric counterpart, the topological Nernst effect (TNE), are hallmarks of the skyrmion lattice phase (SkL). We observed the giant TNE of the SkL in centrosymmetric Gd$_2$PdSi$_3$, comparable…

In this report we give a brief introduction on the occurrence of topologically protected one-dimensional electronic states in group IV two-dimensional graphene-like materials. We discuss the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 H. J. W. Zandvliet , J. D. Verbakel , Q. Yao , K. Sotthewes , P. Bampoulis

The spin-Hall effect underpins some of the most active topics in modern physics, including spin torques and the inverse spin-Hall effect, yet it lacks a proper theoretical description. This makes it difficult to differentiate the SHE from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Hongyang Ma , James H. Cullen , Serajum Monir , Rajib Rahman , Dimitrie Culcer

The geometrical frustration nature of the kagome lattice makes it a great host to flat electronic band, non-trivial topological properties, and novel magnetisms. Metallic kagome antiferromagnet YMn$_{6}$Sn$_{6}$ exhibits the topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-26 Kelly J. Neubauer , Chunruo Duan , Feng Ye , Rui Zhang , Songxue Chi , Qi Wang , Kathryn Krycka , Hechang Lei , Pengcheng Dai

When electrons are subject to a large external magnetic field, the conventional charge quantum Hall effect \cite{Klitzing,Tsui} dictates that an electronic excitation gap is generated in the sample bulk, but metallic conduction is permitted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-14 D. Hsieh , D. Qian , L. Wray , Y. Xia , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

We do a search for topological insulators which are associated with ferromagnetic ordering and show anomalous quantum Hall effect, among transition metal oxide superlattices taking the parent compounds as LaAlO3 and SrTiO3. Among the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-03 Hirak Kumar Chandra , Guang-Yu Guo

Topological spin textures, like skyrmions, have significant potential for spintronics applications. The main purpose of this work is to study further the topological spin textures on the discrete lattice with magnetic fields. In this work,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Lipeng Jin , Bin Xi , Yongjun Liu

We investigate the effect that density wave states have on the localized spins of a square lattice. We find that topologically nontrivial density wave states can induce stable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions among the localized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Ian E. Powell , Steven Durr , Nicholas Rombes , Sudip Chakravarty

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

In a topological insulator (TI) the character of electron transport varies from insulating in the interior of the material to metallic near its surface. Unlike, however, ordinary metals, conducting surface states in TIs are topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

The phenomenon of mesoscopic Spin-Hall effect reveals in a nonequilibrium spin accumulation (driven by electric current) at the edges of a ballistic conductor or, more generally, in the regions with varying electron density. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

It is proposed that a lattice, with constituent masses and spring constants, may be considered as a model system for topological matter. For instance, a relative variation of the inter- and intra-unit cell spring constants can be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Yun Zhou , Prabhakar Bandaru , Daniel Sievenpiper

We investigate the magnetic properties of nano-holes (NHs) patterned in graphene using first principles calculations. We show that superlattices consisting of a periodic array of NHs form a new family of 2D crystalline "bulk" magnets whose…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-08-09 Decai Yu , Elizabeth M. Lupton , Miao Liu , Wei Liu , Feng Liu

The recent discovery of strong spin Hall effects (SHE) in 2D layered topological semimetals has attracted intensive attention due to its exotic electronic properties and potential applications in spintronic devices. In this paper, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-05 Xi Zuo , Yulin Feng , Na Liu , Bing Huang , Desheng Liu , Bin Cui

The coexistence of superconductivity and fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect has recently been observed in twisted MoTe$_2$ and theoretically demonstrated in a model of repulsively interacting electrons under an emergent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-18 Daniele Guerci , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

The effects of lattice relaxation in LaTiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ superlattices are investigated using a combination of LDA$+U$ density functional theory, and Hartree-Fock effective Hamiltonian calculations. We find noticeable ($\sim 0.1$--0.2 \AA)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-06 Satoshi Okamoto , Andrew J. Millis , Nicola A. Spaldin

Recent Lorentz transmission electron microscopy experiments have revealed a variety of noncollinear spin textures including topological magnetisms such as skyrmions, biskyrmions and multiple skyrmions in thin-plate magnetic samples of e.g.,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-26 Tatsuki Muto , Masahito Mochizuki

The layer Hall effect is an intriguing phenomenon observed in magnetic topological layered materials, where the Hall response arises from the opposite deflection of electrons on top and bottom layers. To realize layer Hall effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Yulei Han , Yunpeng Guo , Zeyu Li , Zhenhua Qiao