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Insulating altermagnets like MnTe exhibit spin configurations where opposing spins are not only aligned antiparallel but also rotated relative to each other. This is an arrangement reminiscent of antiferromagnetism with a twist of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Partha Goswami

Ferromagnetism in topological insulators (TIs) opens a topologically non-trivial exchange band gap, providing an exciting platform to manipulate the topological order through an external magnetic field. Here, we experimentally show that the…

We investigate a long-ranged coupled and non-Hermitian two-dimensional array of nanomagnets, fabricated on a thin magnetic substrate and subjected to an in-plane magnetic field. We predict topology-driven edge and corner skin effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Chengyuan Cai , Dante M. Kennes , Michael A. Sentef , Tao Yu

Topological phases in quantum and classical systems have been of significant recent interest due to their fascinating physical properties. While a range of different mechanisms to induce topological order have been introduced, a quest for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-07 Mengyao Li , Xiang Ni , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

Quantum devices characterized by non-Hermitian topology are predicted to show highly robust and potentially useful properties, but realizing them has remained a daunting experimental task. This is because non-Hermiticity is often associated…

The interplay between band topology and material nonlinearity gives rise to a variety of novel phenomena, such as topological solitons and nonlinearity-induced topological phase transitions. However, most previous studies fall within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Junyao Wu , Rui-Chang Shen , Li Zhang , Fujia Chen , Bingbing Wang , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang , Haoran Xue

Quantum Hall systems host chiral edge states extending along the one-dimensional boundary of any two-dimensional sample. In solid state materials, the edge states serve as perfectly robust transport channels that produce a quantised Hall…

Non-Hermitian photonics provides a fertile platform for exploring phenomena with no Hermitian counterparts, including the non-Hermitian skin effect and exceptional points, with direct relevance for integrated photonic technologies. In this…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-26 Xiaosen Yang , Yaru Feng , Abdul Wahab , Hao Geng

We theoretically demonstrate that Chern number tunable quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) and second-order topological insulators can be induced in the two-dimensional $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological insulator (TI), i.e., Kane-Mele model, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Zhengtian Li , Zeyu Li , Zhenhua Qiao

Topological phases of matter are conventionally characterized by the bulk-boundary correspondence in Hermitian systems: The topological invariant of the bulk in $d$ dimensions corresponds to the number of $(d-1)$-dimensional boundary…

A $d$-dimensional second-order topological insulator (SOTI) can host topologically protected $(d - 2)$-dimensional gapless boundary modes. Here we show that a 2D non-Hermitian SOTI can host zero-energy modes at its corners. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Tao Liu , Yu-Ran Zhang , Qing Ai , Zongping Gong , Kohei Kawabata , Masahito Ueda , Franco Nori

We investigate topological phases in three-dimensional topological insulator (3DTI) thin films interfaced with altermagnetic (AM) orders. Starting from a modified Dirac equation, we elucidate the interplay between the Wilson mass, arising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Yu-Hao Wan , Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

It was known that for non-Hermitian topological systems due to the non-Hermitian skin effect, the bulk-edge correspondence is broken down. In this paper, by using one-dimensional Su-SchriefferHeeger model and two-dimensional (deformed)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Can Wang , Xiao-Ran Wang , Cui-Xian Guo , Su-Peng Kou

The hybrid skin-topological effect (HSTE) has recently been proposed as a mechanism where topological edge states collapse into corner states under the influence of the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). However, directly observing this…

Higher-order topological phases of matter have been extensively studied in various areas of physics. While the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model provides a paradigmatic example to study topological phases, it has not been explored whether a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Qi-Bo Zeng , Yan-Bin Yang , Yong Xu

Non-Hermiticity enriches the contents of topological classification of matter including exceptional points, bulk-edge correspondence and skin effect. Gain and loss can be described by imaginary diagonal elements in Hamiltonians and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 X. L. Zhao , L. B. Chen , L. B. Fu , X. X. Yi

Topological phases are greatly enriched by including non-Hermiticity. While most works focus on the topology of the eigenvalues and eigenstates, how topologically nontrivial non-Hermitian systems behave in dynamics has only drawn limited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Tian-Rui Liu , Kai Bai , Jia-Zheng Li , Liang Fang , Duanduan Wan , Meng Xiao

Non-Hermitian topological phases have gained immense attention due to their potential to unlock novel features beyond Hermitian bounds. PT-symmetric (Parity Time-reversal symmetric) non-Hermitian models have been studied extensively over…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Chakradhar Rangi , Ka-Ming Tam , Juana Moreno

In this work, we propose a scheme to realize the layer Hall effect in the ferromagnetic topological insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$ via proximity to $d$-wave altermagnets. We show that an altermagnet and an in-plane magnetic field applied near one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Fang Qin , Rui Chen

The hybrid skin-topological effect (HSTE) in non-Hermitian systems exhibits both the skin effect and topological protection, offering a novel mechanism for the localization of topological edge states (TESs) in electrons, circuits, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Jianzhi Chen , Aoqian Shi , Yuchen Peng , Peng Peng , Jianjun Liu