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Chiral magnets are an emerging class of topological matter harbouring localized and topologically protected vortex-like magnetic textures called skyrmions, which are currently under intense scrutiny as a new entity for information storage…

We explore the emergence of spin-polarised flat-bands at head-to-head domain walls in a recently predicted class of antiferromagnetic topological insulators hosting planar magnetisation. We show, in the framework of quantum well physics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 N. B. Devlin , T. Ferrus , C. H. W. Barnes

Altermagnetism has emerged as an unconventional form of collinear magnetism with spatial rotational symmetries, that give rise to strongly spin-split bands despite of an underlying fully-compensated antiferromagnetic order. Here, we develop…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-12 Lorenzo Lanzini , Purnendu Das , Michael Knap

A number of rare-earth monopnictides have topologically non-trivial band structures together with magnetism and strong electronic correlations. In order to examine whether the antiferromagnetic (AFM) semimetal YbAs ($T\rm_N$ = 0.5 K)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-21 W. Xie , Y. Wu , F. Du , A. Wang , H. Su , Y. Chen , Z. Y. Nie , S. -K. Mo , M. Smidman , C. Cao , Y. Liu , T. Takabatake , H. Q. Yuan

Topological states of quantum matter exhibit unique disorder-immune surface states protected by underlying nontrivial topological invariants of the bulk. Such immunity from backscattering makes topological surface or edge states ideal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-09 S. Hossein Mousavi , Alexander B. Khanikaev , Zheng Wang

Altermagnets exhibit nonrelativistic spin splitting without net magnetization, establishing a new platform for next-generation spintronic devices. Although altermagnetic tunnel junctions (AMTJs) represent the most promising realizations,…

Dirac-like surface states on surfaces of topological insulators have a chiral spin structure that suppresses back-scattering and protects the coherence of these states in the presence of non-magnetic scatterers. In contrast, magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-13 T. Valla , Z. -H. Pan , D. R. Gardner , Y. S. Lee , S. Chu

Altermagnetism represents a type of collinear magnetism, that is in some aspects distinct from ferromagnetism and from conventional antiferromagnetism. In contrast to the latter, sublattices of opposite spin are related by spatial rotations…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-26 Purnendu Das , Valentin Leeb , Johannes Knolle , Michael Knap

We identify a mechanism to convert skyrmions and antiskyrmions into their antiferromagnetic (AFM) counterparts via interfacial engineering. The key idea is to combine properties of an antiferromagnet and a spin-orbit (SO) coupled metal.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Arnob Mukherjee , Deepak S. Kathyat , Sanjeev Kumar

We use the first principles and effective Hamiltonian methods to study the electronic structure and magnetic properties of a recently synthesized layered antiferromagnetic square net topological semimetal EuZnSb$_2$ [1]. The main message of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-21 Niraj Aryal , Qiang Li , A. M. Tsvelik , Weiguo Yin

In this paper we establish a connection between the bulk topological structure and the magnetic properties of drumhead surface states of nodal loop semimetals. We identify the magnetic characteristics of the surface states and compute the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Assem Alassaf , János Koltai , László Oroszlány

The realization of topological antiferromagnetic (AFM) solitons in real materials is a major goal towards their use in information technology. While they bear various advantages with respect to their ferromagnetic cousins, their observation…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-09 Amal Aldarawsheh , Moritz Sallermann , Muayad Abusaa , Samir Lounis

We study the influence of the antiferromagnetic order on the surface states of topological insulators. We derive an effective Hamiltonian for these states, taking into account the spatial structure of the antiferromagnetic order. We obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 R. S. Akzyanov , A. L. Rakhmanov

Topologically protected fermionic quasiparticles appear in metals, where band degeneracies occur at the Fermi level, dictated by the band structure topology. While in some metals these quasiparticles are direct analogues of elementary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 Ziming Zhu , Georg W. Winkler , QuanSheng Wu , Ju Li , Alexey A. Soluyanov

Ferromagnetic resonance is used to reveal features of the buried electronic band structure at interfaces between ferromagnetic metals and topological insulators. By monitoring the evolution of magnetic damping, the application of this…

Altermagnets are a novel class of magnetic materials that bridge the gap between ferromagnets (FMs) and antiferromagnets (AFMs). A key feature is the non-degeneracy of magnon modes where spin splitting occurs, leading to chirality and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-19 Wejdan Beida , Ersoy Sasioglu , Christoph Friedrich , Gustav Bihlmayer , Yuriy Mokrousov , Stefan Blügel

The electronic structure of Sb(110) is studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and first-principle calculations, revealing several electronic surface states in the projected bulk band gaps around the Fermi energy. The…

The abstract notion of topology has led to profound insights into real materials. Notably, the surface and edges of topological materials can host physics, such as unidirectional charge or spin transport, that is unavailable in isolated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Nicodemos Varnava , Justin H. Wilson , J. H. Pixley , David Vanderbilt

The interest in understanding scaling limits of magnetic textures such as domain walls spans the entire field of magnetism from its relativistic quantum fundamentals to applications in information technologies. The traditional focus of the…

Magnetoresistance (MR), the change of a material's electrical resistance in response to an applied magnetic field, is a technologically important property that has been the topic of intense study for more than a quarter century. Here we…