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Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter that are insulating in the bulk but metallic on the edge or surface. In the Dirac surface state, it is well-established that the electron spin is locked with the crystal…

Topologically protected whirling magnetic textures could emerge as data carriers in next-generation post-Moore computing. Such textures are abundantly observed in ferromagnets (FMs); however, their antiferromagnetic (AFM) counterparts are…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-13 Jack Harrison , Hariom Jani , Paolo G. Radaelli

Topological polar textures in ferroelectrics have attracted significant interest for their potential for energy-efficient and high-density data storage and processing. Among these, polar merons and antimerons are predicted in strained and…

This work is devoted to the study of how spin texture excitations are affected by the presence of a static nonmagnetic impurity whenever they lie on a conical support. We realize a number of novelties as compared to the flat plane case.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 W. A. Freitas , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

A magnetic bimeron is a topologically non-trivial spin texture carrying an integer topological charge, which can be regarded as the counterpart of skyrmion in easy-plane magnets. The controllable creation and manipulation of bimerons are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-27 Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Xiaoxi Liu , Guoping Zhao , Yan Zhou

Coupling of the spin and orbital degrees of freedom on the surface of a strong three-dimensional insulator, on the one hand, and textured magnetic configuration in an adjacent ferromagnetic film, on the other, is studied using a combination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , D. A. Pesin , Daniel Loss

In crystalline systems with a superstructure, the electron dispersion can form a nontrivial covering of the Brillouin zone. It is proved that the number of sheets in this covering and its monodromy are topological invariants under ambient…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-30 Yu. B. Kudasov

We show that stable localized topological soliton textures (skyrmions) with $\pi_2$ topological charge $\nu \geq 1$ exist in a classical 2D Heisenberg model of a ferromagnet with uniaxial anisotropy. For this model the soliton exist only if…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. G. Galkina , E. V. Kirichenko , B. A. Ivanov , V. A. Stephanovich

We investigate theoretically the spin torque and magnetization dynamic in a thin ferromagnetic (FM) layer with spatially varying magnetization. The FM layer is deposited on the surface of a topological insulator (TI). In the limit of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Ji Chen , Mansoor Bin Abdul Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

Hopfions are three-dimensional (3D) topological textures characterized by the integer Hopf invariant $Q_H$. Here, we present the realization of a zero--field, stable hopfion spin texture in a magnetic system consisting of a chiral magnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yizhou Liu , Roger Lake , Jiadong Zang

Low-field magnetotransport measurements of topological insulators such as Bi$_2$Se$_3$ are important for revealing the nature of topological surface states by quantum corrections to the conductivity, such as weak-antilocalization. Recently,…

We investigate charge transport in two-dimensional ferromagnet/feromagnet junction on a topological insulator. The conductance across the interface depends sensitively on the directions of the magnetizations of the two ferromagnets, showing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-03 Takehito Yokoyama , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

The geometrical spin torque mediates an indirect interaction of magnetic moments, which are weakly exchange coupled to a system of itinerant electrons. It originates from a finite spin-Berry curvature and leads to a non-Hamiltonian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-01 Nicolas Lenzing , David Krüger , Michael Potthoff

Detecting chiral edge modes in topological materials has been intensively pursued in experiments. However, the phenomena caused by the modes are not yet elucidated theoretically. We study the dynamics of chiral spinon wave packets at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-18 Tomonari Mizoguchi , Tohru Koma , Yasuhito Yoshida

We investigate the interaction of magnetic vortices and skyrmions with a spin-polarized current. In a square lattice, fixed classical spins and quantum itinerant electrons, evolve according to the coupled Landau-Lifshitz and Schr\"odinger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 Ricardo Gabriel Elias , Alberto D. Verga

When a magnon passes through two-dimensional magnetic textures, it will experience a fictitious magnetic field originating from the $3\times 3$ skew-symmetric gauge fields. To date, only one of the three independent components of the gauge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Zhejunyu Jin , Xianglong Yao , Zhenyu Wang , H. Y. Yuan , Zhaozhuo Zeng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

The spontaneous magnetic orders arising in ferro-, ferri- and antiferromagnets stem from various magnetic interactions. Depending on the interplay and competition among the Heisenberg exchange interaction, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Haiming Yu , Jiang Xiao , Helmut Schultheiss

Topological magnetic textures are particle-like spin configurations stabilized by competing interactions. Their formation is commonly attributed to fluctuation-driven, first-order nucleation processes requiring activation over a topological…

Precise positioning of topological defects is essential for racetrack memories, where their positions along a magnetic nanotrack encode information. Traditional methods achieve nanometric precision by engineering pinning landscapes that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-04 Luca Maranzana , Maxim Mostovoy , Naoto Nagaosa , Sergey Artyukhin

Realizing effective manipulation and explicit identification of topological spin textures are two crucial ingredients to make them as information carrier in spintronic devices with high storage density, high data handling speed and low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Yingmei Zhu , Qirui Cui , Jinghua Liang , Yonglong Ga , Hongxin Yang