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Twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) offers a versatile platform for exploring band topology, interaction-driven phases, and magnetic orders. We study the interaction-driven phases in twisted TMD homobilayers and their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-12 Taige Wang , Trithep Devakul , Michael P. Zaletel , Liang Fu

Topological order is important in many aspects of condensed matter physics, and has been extended to bosonic systems. In this Letter we report on the nontrivial topology of the magnon bands in two distinct quantum skyrmion crystals…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-15 Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø

We develop a theory for the electrical and thermal transverse linear response functions such as the Hall, Nernst and thermal Hall effects in magnetic materials that harbor topological spin textures like skyrmions. In addition to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Zachariah Addison , Lauren Keyes , Mohit Randeria

Altermagnets (AMs) are an emergent class of magnetic materials that combine properties of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, exhibiting spin-polarized Fermi surfaces and zero net magnetic moment due to combined time-reversal and crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Zesen Fu , Mengli Hu , Aolin Li , Haiming Duan , Junwei Liu , Fangping Ouyang

Altermagnets, an emerging class of magnetic materials, exhibit exotic chiral split magnons that are of great interest for both fundamental physics and spintronic applications. However, detecting and manipulating these magnons is challenging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Zhaozhuo Zeng , Zhejunyu Jin , Peng Yan

Altermagnetism is a collinear magnetic order in which opposite spin species are exchanged under a real-space rotation. Hence, the search for physical realizations has focussed on crystalline solids with specific rotational symmetry. Here,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-12 Peru d'Ornellas , Valentin Leeb , Adolfo G. Grushin , Johannes Knolle

While altermagnetic materials are characterized by a vanishing net magnetic moment, their symmetry in principle allows for the existence of an anomalous Hall effect (AHE). Here we introduce a model with altermagnetism in which the emergence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-05 Toshihiro Sato , Sonia Haddad , Ion Cosma Fulga , Fakher F. Assaad , Jeroen van den Brink

Altermagnets have attracted considerable attention in recent years owing to their potential technological applications in spintronics and magnonics. Recently, a new class of spontaneous altermagnets has been theoretically predicted in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-02 Nitin Kaushal , Adarsh S. Patri , Marcel Franz

In this paper, we introduce Berry curvature, topological Chern number and topological chiral edge mode, that emerge from a hybridization between magnon and electromagnetic wave in a ferromagnet insulator. By focusing on the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Akihiro Okamoto , Ryuichi Shindou , Shuichi Murakami

Altermagnets are a recently discovered class of compensated magnets with momentum-dependent spin splittings and unusual transport properties, even without a net magnetization. In the presence of combined four-fold rotation and time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Arnob Mukherjee , Biplab Sanyal , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Ankita Bhattacharya

When band degeneracy occurs in a spin-split band structure, it gives rise to divergent Berry curvature and distinctive topological boundary states, resulting in a variety of fascinating effects. We show that three-dimensional spin-split…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Di Zhu , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

In this Letter we present a comprehensive study of topological magnon bands and thermal Hall effect in non-collinear antiferromagnetic systems on the honeycomb lattice with an intrinsic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 S. A. Owerre

Vortex magnetic structure in artificial honeycomb lattice provides a unique platform to explore emergent properties due to the additional Berry phase curvature imparted by chiral magnetization to circulating electrons via direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 J. Guo , V. Dugaev , A. Ernst , G. Yumnam , P. Ghosh , D. K. Singh

Altermagnetism has emerged as a third type of collinear magnetism. In contrast to standard ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, altermagnets exhibit extra even-parity wave spin order parameters resulting in a spin-splitting of electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Valentin Leeb , Alexander Mook , Libor Šmejkal , Johannes Knolle

We study the Berry curvature and Chern number of a non-collinear spin state on a honeycomb lattice that evolves from coplanar to ferromagnetic with a magnetic field applied along the $z$ axis. The coplanar state is stabilized by…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-12 Randy S. Fishman , Daniel M. Pajerowski

The Kitaev magnets with bond-dependent interactions have garnered considerable attention in recent years for their ability to harbor exotic phases and nontrivial excitations. The topological magnons, which are indicated by nonzero Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-05 Xudong Li , Jize Zhao , Jinbin Li , Qiang Luo

Altermagnets are collinear compensated magnets in which the magnetic sublattices are related by rotation rather than translation or inversion. One of the quintessential properties of altermagnets is the presence of split chiral magnon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-05 Vincent C. Morano , Zeno Maesen , Stanislav E. Nikitin , Jakob Lass , Daniel G. Mazzone , Oksana Zaharko

Kagome magnets naturally hosting Dirac points and flat bands exhibit novel topological phases, enabling rich interplays between interactions and topologies. The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) magnets generally coexisting with different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-24 Jin-Yu Ni , Xia-Ming Zheng , Peng-Tao Wei , Da-Yong Liu , Liang-Jian Zou

This theoretical research is devoted to study topological phase transitions in a two-dimensional honeycomb ferromagnetic lattice with unequal Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions for the two sublattices. With the help of a first-order Green…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-13 Heng Zhu , Hongchao Shi , Zhengguo Tang , Bing Tang

We propose a minimal toy model for a two-dimensional altermagnet. The model unravels altermagnetic properties at a microscopic level. We find spin-split electron- and non-degenerate magnon bands with a $d$-wave symmetry. We use the model to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-22 Bjørnulf Brekke , Arne Brataas , Asle Sudbø