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Topological phases realized in time-reversal invariant (TRI) systems are foundational to experimental study of the broader canon of topological condensed matter as they do not require exotic magnetic orders for realization. We therefore…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 R. Flores-Calderon , Ashley M. Cook

Skyrmions are spatially localized magnetic swirls which carry a nonzero integer topological charge. We study crystals of skyrmions in a two-dimensional ferromagnet model with chiral interactions induced by the presence of broken inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-22 Sopheak Sorn , Stefan Divic , Arun Paramekanti

We propose a scheme for manipulations of a variety of topological states in fractional optical systems through spiral modulation of the local refraction index. An analytical approximation, based on a truncated finite-mode system, and direct…

We report the discovery and direct visualization of skyrmion clusters with mutually-orthogonal orientations of constituent isolated skyrmions in chiral liquid crystals and ferromagnets. We show that the nascent conical state underlies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Hayley. R. O. Sohn , Sergei M. Vlasov , Valeriy M. Uzdin , Andrey O. Leonov , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Optical interferometry has made tremendous development in fundamentals and applications of light. Traditional optical interferometry using simplex plane phase light just allows one dimensional measurement, but incapable of retrieving…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-10 Liang Fang , Zhenyu Wan , Jian Wang

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected chiral spin textures which present opportunities for next-generation magnetic data storage and logic information technologies. The topology of these structures originates in the geometric…

Creation and control of topological complex excitations play crucial roles in both fundamental physics and modern information science. Torons are a sophisticated class of 3D chiral polar topological structures with both skyrmionic…

The fractional quantum Hall effect has inspired searches for exotic emergent topological particles, such as fractionally charged excitations, composite fermions, abelian and nonabelian anyons and Majorana fermions. Fractionally charged…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-30 Ajit C. Balram , U. Wurstbauer , A. Wójs , A. Pinczuk , J. K. Jain

Magnetic skyrmions are promising spin textures for building next-generation magnetic memories and spintronic devices. Nevertheless, one of the major challenges in realizing skyrmion-based devices is the stabilization of ordered arrays of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-02 E. Iroulart , H. D. Rosales

The study of topological phases of light suggests novel opportunities for creating robust optical structures and on-chip photonic devices which are immune against scattering losses and structural disorder. However, many recent…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-26 Dmitry V. Zhirihin , Yuri S. Kivshar

Skyrmions are extended field configurations, initially proposed to describe baryons as topological solitons in an effective field theory of mesons. We investigate and confirm the existence of skyrmions within the electroweak sector of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Juan Carlos Criado , Valentin V. Khoze , Michael Spannowsky

Fractional calculus is a generalization of classical theories of integration and differentiation to arbitrary order (i.e., real or complex numbers). In the last two decades, this new mathematical modeling approach has been widely used to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Umair Siddique , Osman Hasan , Sofiène Tahar

Topologically nontrivial magnetic textures such as skyrmions offer promising opportunities for spintronic applications. In recent years, it has been shown that the magnetic properties of layered materials can be affected by depositing…

Magnetic skyrmions can be considered as topologically protected localized vortex-like spin textures. Due to their stability, their small size, and the possibility to move them by low electric currents they are promising candidates for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Martin Stier , Wolfgang Häusler , Thore Posske , Gregor Gurski , Michael Thorwart

Photonic platforms have emerged as versatile and powerful classical simulators of quantum dynamics, providing clean, controllable optical analogs of extended structured (i.e., crystalline) electronic systems. While most realizations to date…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-07 Jiho Noh , Julian Schulz , Wladimir Benalcazar , Christina Jörg

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically nontrivial particles with a potential application as information elements in future spintronic device architectures. While they are commonly portrayed as two dimensional objects, in reality magnetic…

Hopfions, higher-dimensional topological quasiparticles with sophisticated 3D knotted spin textures discovered in condensed matter and photonic systems, show promise in high-density data storage and transfer. Here we present crystalline…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-22 Wenbo Lin , Nilo Mata-Cervera , Yasutomo Ota , Yijie Shen , Satoshi Iwamoto

Traditionally, skyrmions are treated as continuum magnetic textures of classical spins with a well-defined topological skyrmion number. Owing to their topological protection, skyrmions have attracted great interest as building blocks in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-24 Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø

Magnetic skyrmions are spin swirling solitonic defects that can play a major role in information technology. Their future in applications and devices hinges on their efficient manipulation and detection. Here, we explore from ab-initio…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Mohammed Bouhassoune , Samir Lounis

Optical vortex, a light beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been realized in experiments, and its interactions with magnets show abundant physical characteristics and great application potentials. In this work, we propose that…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-22 S. H. Guan , Y. Liu , Z. P. Hou , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu