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Topology is quickly becoming a cornerstone in our understanding of electronic systems. Like their electronic counterparts, bosonic systems can exhibit a topological band structure, but in real materials it is difficult to ascertain their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Daniel Malz , Johannes Knolle , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Magnetic impurities on the surface of spin-orbit coupled but otherwise conventional superconductors provide a promising way to engineer topological superconductors with Majorana bound states as for boundary modes. In this work, we show that…

We study magnon-polaron hybrid states, mediated by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and magnetoelastic interactions, in a two-dimensional ferromagnetic insulator. The magnetic system consists of both in-plane and flexural acoustic and optical phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Jostein N. Kløgetvedt , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

We propose a model with Weyl magnons and nodal-line magnons ($\mathbb{Z}_2$) in a collinear altermagnet on the honeycomb lattice. Altermagnetic magnon bands can be realized by breaking the symmetry of the second nearest neighbor exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Meng-Han Zhang , Lu Xiao , Dao-Xin Yao

Topological quantum phases cannot be characterized by Ginzburg-Landau type order parameters, and are instead described by non-local topological invariants. Experimental platforms capable of realizing such exotic states now include…

One of the most important magnetic spin structure is the topologically stabilised skyrmion quasi-particle. Its interesting physical properties make them candidates for memory and efficient neuromorphic computation schemes. For the device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Isaac Labrie-Boulay , Thomas Brian Winkler , Daniel Franzen , Alena Romanova , Hans Fangohr , Mathias Kläui

The phase of the quantum-mechanical wave function can encode a topological structure with wide-ranging physical consequences, such as anomalous transport effects and the existence of edge states robust against perturbations. While this has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-14 M. dos Santos Dias , N. Biniskos , F. J. dos Santos , K. Schmalzl , J. Persson , F. Bourdarot , N. Marzari , S. Blügel , T. Brückel , S. Lounis

To realize novel topological phases and to pursue potential applications in low-energy consumption spintronics, the study of magnetic topological materials is of great interest. Starting from the theory of nonmagnetic topological quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-03 Jiacheng Gao , Zhaopeng Guo , Hongming Weng , Zhijun Wang

Topological materials are characterized by integer invariants that underpin their robust quantized electronic features, as famously exemplified by the Chern number in the integer quantum Hall effect. Yet, in most candidate systems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Yuval Abulafia , Eric Akkermans

The traditional theory of magnetic moments for chiral phonons is based on the picture of the circular motion of the Born effective charge, typically yielding a small fractional value of the nuclear magneton. Here we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Yafei Ren , Cong Xiao , Daniyar Saparov , Qian Niu

We propose realistic methods to detect local spin polarization, which utilize a quantum dot side coupled to the target system. By choosing appropriate states in the dot, we can put spin selectivity to the dot and detect spins in the target…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 Tomohiro Otsuka , Eisuke Abe , Yasuhiro Iye , Shingo Katsumoto

Recently proposed spintronic devices use magnetic skyrmions as bits of information. The reliable detection of those chiral magnetic objects is an indispensable requirement. Yet, the high mobility of magnetic skyrmions leads to their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Tim Matthies , Alexander F. Schäffer , Thore Posske , Roland Wiesendanger , Elena Y. Vedmedenko

The spin chemical potential characterizes the tendency of spins to diffuse. Probing the spin chemical potential could provide insight into materials such as magnetic insulators and spin liquids and aid optimization of spintronic devices.…

The present Chapter discusses methods by which topological Bloch bands can be prepared in cold-atom setups. Focusing on the case of Chern bands for two-dimensional systems, we describe how topological properties can be triggered by driving…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-29 Nathan Goldman , Nigel Cooper , Jean Dalibard

Computing topological invariants in two-dimensional quasicrystals and super-moire matter is a remarkable open challenge, due to the absence of translational symmetry and the colossal number of sites inherent to these systems. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-14 Tiago V. C. Antão , Yitao Sun , Adolfo O. Fumega , Jose L. Lado

Topological properties lie at the heart of many fascinating phenomena in solid state systems such as quantum Hall systems or Chern insulators. The topology can be captured by the distribution of Berry curvature, which describes the geometry…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-31 N. Fläschner , B. S. Rem , M. Tarnowski , D. Vogel , D. -S. Lühmann , K. Sengstock , C. Weitenberg

Magnetic skyrmions offer promising prospects for constructing future energy-efficient and high-density information technology, leading to extensive explorations of new skyrmionic materials recently. The topological Hall effect has been…

Antiferromagnetic skyrmion crystals are magnetic phases predicted to exist in antiferromagnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. Their spatially periodic noncollinear magnetic texture gives rise to topological bulk magnon bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Sebastian A. Diaz , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Spatially resolved local quantum geometric markers play a crucial role in the diagnosis of topological phases without long-range translational symmetry, including amorphous systems. Here, we focus on the nonlocality of such markers. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Quentin Marsal , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Topological magnon modes are expected to be useful for novel applications such as robust information propagation, since they are immune to backscattering and robust against disorder. Although there are several of theoretical proposals for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Hong Huang , Toshikaze Kariyado , Xiao Hu