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We show that proximity to an altermagnet provides an efficient route to engineering non-Hermitian higher-order topological phases. The proximity-induced altermagnetic order gaps the edge states of a topological insulator, thereby driving a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Xiang Ji , Dengfeng Wang , Tong Zhou , Xiaosen Yang

We theoretically investigate magnons on the $\alpha$-T$_3$ lattice. Atomistic spin dynamics simulations show that next-nearest neighbor hopping and easy-axis anisotropy stabilize ferromagnetic order in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Luqman Saleem , Hasan M. Abdullah , Udo Schwingenschlogl , Aurelien Manchon

Altermagnetism is a subclass of antiferromagnetism that features spin-polarized electron bands of a non-relativistic origin despite the absence of a net magnetiation in the material. We here theoretically study spin pumping from an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder

Band geometry plays a substantial role in topological lattice models. The Berry curvature, which resembles the effect of magnetic field in reciprocal space, usually fluctuates throughout the Brillouin zone. Motivated by the analogy with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-11 Daniel Varjas , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Kang Yang , Emil J. Bergholtz

It was recently discovered that, depending on their symmetries, collinear antiferromagnets may break spin degeneracy in momentum space, even in absence of spin-orbit coupling. Such systems, dubbed altermagnets, have electronic bands with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-16 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Maria Daghofer , Jeroen van den Brink

The paper develops a modified geometrical optics (GO) of smoothly inhomogeneous isotropic medium, which takes into account two topological phenomena: Berry phase and the optical Magnus effect. By using the analogy between a quasi-classical…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Yu. Bliokh , Yu. P. Bliokh

We introduce the concept of \emph{orbital altermagnetism}, a symmetry-protected magnetic order of pure orbital degrees of freedom. It is characterized with ordered anti-parallel orbital magnetic moments in real space but momentum-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Mingxiang Pan , Feng Liu , Huaqing Huang

The anomalous Hall, Nernst and thermal Hall coefficients of Fe$_{3-x}$GeTe$_2$ display several features upon cooling, like a reversal in the Nernst signal below $T = 50$ K pointing to a topological transition (TT) associated to the…

We propose the existence of a symmetry-protected topological Dirac nodal line (DNL) magnonic phase in layered honeycomb collinear antiferromagnets even in the presence of spin-orbit Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We show that the magnon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-05 S. A. Owerre

We investigate low energy magnon excitations above the non-collinear flux state and non-coplanar canted flux state in a Heisenberg anti-ferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction~(DMI) on a Sashtry-Sutherland lattice.While previous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Dhiman Bhowmick , Pinaki Sengupta

Altermagnetism exhibits zero net magnetization and spin-splitting electronic structure. The interplay between altermagnetism and topological physics becomes an important topic in the condensed matter physics. In this letter, we propose that…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Xue He , Shihao Zhang

We present a quantum Hall effect of magnons in two-dimensional clean insulating magnets at finite temperature. Through the Aharonov-Casher effect, a magnon moving in an electric field acquires a geometric phase and forms Landau levels in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Kouki Nakata , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Topological singularities (TSs) in momentum space give rise to intriguing fundamental phenomena as well as unusual material properties, attracting a great deal of interest in the past decade. Recently, we have demonstrated universal…

Altermagnets, which encompass a broad landscape of materials, are compensated collinear magnetic phases in which the antiparallel magnetic moments are related by a crystalline rotation. Here, we argue that collinear altermagnetic-like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-24 Anzumaan R. Chakraborty , Fan Yang , Turan Birol , Rafael M. Fernandes

The bond-dependent Kitaev interaction $K$ is familiar in the effective spin model of transition metal compounds with octahedral ligands. In this work, we find a peculiar non-coplanar magnetic order can be formed with the help of $K$ and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-04 Linli Bai , Ken Chen

The experimental observation of topological magnon bands and thermal Hall effect in a kagom\'e lattice ferromagnet Cu(1-3, bdc) has inspired the search for topological magnon effects in various insulating ferromagnets that lack an inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 S. A. Owerre

Altermagnetic materials combine compensated magnetic order with momentum-dependent spin splitting, offering a fundamentally new route for spintronic functionality beyond conventional ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. While most studies…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 J. W. González , T. Brumme , E. Suárez Morell , A. M. León

We discuss the anomalous Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas subject to a spatially varying magnetization. This topological Hall effect (THE) does not require any spin-orbit coupling, and arises solely from Berry phase acquired by…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Bruno , V. K. Dugaev , M. Taillefumier

Gaining growing attention in spintronics is a class of magnets displaying zero net magnetization and spin-split electronic bands called altermagnets. Here, by combining density functional theory and symmetry analysis, we show that RuF$_4$…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-19 Marko Milivojević , Marko Orozović , Silvia Picozzi , Martin Gmitra , Srdjan Stavrić

Topological magnon insulators are the bosonic analogs of electronic topological insulators. They are manifested in magnetic materials with topologically nontrivial magnon bands as realized experimentally in a quasi-two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-13 S. A. Owerre