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We argue that strain engineering is a powerful tool which may facilitate the experimental realization and control of topological phases in laser-driven 2D ferromagnetic systems. To this extent, we show that by applying a circularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 T. V. C. Antão , N. M. R. Peres

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

The coupling between real-space inhomogeneities coordinates and spin (r-s) provides an alternative route to achieve efficient spin manipulation in spintronics beyond the conventional momentum-spin (k-s) coupling paradigm. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Shibo Fang , Zongmeng Yang , Jianhua Wang , Xingyue Yang , Jing Lu , Ching Hua Lee , Xiaotian Wang , Yee Sin Ang

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) and ferromagnetic (FM) skyrmions possess unique advantages for spintronic applications. AFM skyrmions eliminate the skyrmion Hall effect and exhibit fast dynamics, whereas FM skyrmions are easier to nucleate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-03 Xinyang Jiang , Jian Wu , Weiyi Pan

Antiferromagnetic materials, whose time-reversal symmetry is broken, can be classified into the Z2 topology if they respect some specific symmetry. Since the theoretical proposal, however, no materials have been found to host the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-30 Kai-Wei Chang , Peng-Jen Chen

Altermagnetism refers to a wide class of magnetic orders featuring magnetic sublattices with opposite spins related by rotational symmetries, resulting in non-trivial spin splitting and magnetic multipoles. However, the direct observation…

Altermagnetism represents a novel class of collinear antiferromagnetism exhibiting non-relativistic spin splitting without net magnetization, driven by lattice symmetry rather than spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we introduce a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Diego López-Alcalá , Alberto M. Ruiz , Andrei Shumilin , José J. Baldoví

Recently, antiferromagnetic (AF) materials have attracted rapid attention, because they are considered as outstanding candidates to replace the widely used ferromagnets in the next generation of spintronics. We propose a magnetoresistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Wei-Tao Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

2D materials with nontrivial energy bands are highly desirable for exploring various topological phases of matter, as low dimensionality opens unprecedented opportunities for manipulating the quantum states. Here, it is reported that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 Chenqiang Hua , Si Li , Zhu-An Xu , Yi Zheng , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu

We consider the combined effects of large spin-orbit couplings and a perpendicular magnetic field in a 2D honeycomb fermionic lattice. This system provides an elegant setup to generate versatile spin textures propagating along the edge of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 N. Goldman , W. Beugeling , C. Morais Smith

The topological states of matters arising from the nontrivial magnetic configuration provide a better understanding of physical properties and functionalities of solid materials. Such studies benefit from the active control of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-29 Jian Liu , Sheng Meng , Jia-Tao Sun

We propose the creation of a two-dimensional topological semimetal in a semiconductor artificial lattice with triangular symmetry. An in-plane magnetic field drives a quantum phase transition between the topological insulating and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Tommy Li , Oleg P. Sushkov

The discovery of topological states of matter has led to a revolution in materials research. When external or intrinsic parameters break certain symmetries, global properties of topological materials change drastically. A paramount example…

Altermagnetism (AM), the recently discovered third class of collinear magnetic order, is characterized by non-relativistic momentum-dependent spin-split electronic structure with compensated zero net magnetization. It can arise from the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Jin-Wei Dong , Yu-Han Lin , Ruiqing Fu , Xianxin Wu , Gang Su , Ziqiang Wang , Sen Zhou

Beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, altermagnetism is a recently discovered unconventional magnetic phase characterized by time-reversal symmetry breaking and spin-split band structures in materials with zero net…

A recently identified class of collinear magnetic order, characterized by vanishing net magnetization yet unconventional spin splitting, known as altermagnets (AMs), has attracted significant research interest. Controlling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Yichen Liu , Tongshuai Zhu , Haijun Zhang

Altermagnetism, as a newly identified form of unconventional antiferromagnetism, enables the removal of spin degeneracy in the absence of net magnetization that provides a platform for the low power consumption and ultra-fast device…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-26 Wei Xun , Xin Liu , Youdong Zhang , Yin-Zhong Wu , Ping Li

Altermagnetism simultaneously possesses nonrelativistic spin responses and zero net magnetization, thus combining advantages of ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. This superiority originates from its unique dual feature, i.e.,…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics offers a pathway toward electrically controllable spin-based devices beyond ferromagnets. Here, we identify wurtzite MnX (X = S, Se, Te) as a family of multiferroic materials hosting competing AFM phases,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-01 Himanshu Mavani , Mohamed Elekhtiar , Kai Huang , Naafis Ahnaf Shahed , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Altermagnet is an emerging antiferromagnetic material subclass that exhibits spin-splitting in momentum space without net global magnetization and spin-orbit-coupling effect. In this work, we develop a model of thermal charge injection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Yee Sin Ang