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Topological magnons, quantized spin waves featuring nontrivial boundary modes, present a promising route toward lossless information processing. Realizing practical devices typically requires magnons excited in a controlled manner to enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xueqing Wan , Quanchao Du , Jinlian Lu , Zhenlong Zhang , Jinyang Ni , Lei Zhang , Zhijun Jiang , Laurent Bellaiche

When monolayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are stacked into van der Waals structures, interlayer electronic coupling can introduce entirely new properties, as exemplified by recent discoveries of moir\'e bands that host highly…

The strong spin-orbit coupling and the broken inversion symmetry in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) results in spin-valley coupled band structures. Such a band structure leads to novel applications in the fields of…

Altermagnetism -a magnetic state characterized by spin-polarized electronic bands at zero net magnetization- offers a promising route for next-generation spintronic devices. In two-dimensional (2D) magnets, twist engineering enables its…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Alberto M. Ruiz , Andrei Shumilin , Rafael González-Hernández , José J. Baldoví

Recently, the twist angle between adjacent sheets of stacked van der Waals materials emerged as a new knob to engineer correlated states of matter in two-dimensional heterostructures in a controlled manner, giving rise to emergent phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Lede Xian , Martin Claassen , Dominik Kiese , Michael M. Scherer , Simon Trebst , Dante M. Kennes , Angel Rubio

Van der Waals magnetic materials are currently of great interest as materials for applications in future ultrathin nanoelectronics and nanospintronics. Due to weak coupling between individual monolayers, these materials can be easily…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Wojciech Rudziński , Józef Barnaś , Anna Dyrdał

The electronic conductance of graphene-based bilayer flake systems reveal different quantum interference effects, such as Fabry-P\'erot resonances and sharp Fano antiresonances on account of competing electronic paths through the device.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 D. Zambrano , L. Rosales , A. Latgé , M. Pacheco , P. A. Orellana

Van der Waals heterobilayers based on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides have been recently shown to support robust and long-lived valley polarization for potential valleytronic applications. However, the role of the band structure and…

The concept of swapping the two most important spin interactions -- exchange and spin-orbit coupling -- is proposed based on two-dimensional multilayer van der Waals heterostructures. Specifically, we show by performing realistic ab initio…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-05 Klaus Zollner , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

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

The advent of altermagnetism, a new phase of magnetism, has garnered significant interest due to its extraordinary spin-polarized electronic bands despite zero net magnetization. Such spin-symmetry-guided robust non-relativistic alternating…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-15 Anil Kumar Singh , Pritam Deb

Topological flat bands at the Fermi level offer a promising platform to study a variety of intriguing correlated phase of matter. Here we present band engineering in the twisted orbital-active bilayers with spin-orbit coupling. The symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Huan Wang , Yadong Jiang , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

The enhancement of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) in magnetic multilayers results in the stabilization of topological spin textures like chiral domain walls and skyrmions. Here we report on the evaluation of…

In this paper we analyze spin waves in bilayers of two-dimensional van der Waals materials, like Vanadium based dichalcogenides, VX$_2$ (X=S, Se, Te) and other materials of similar symmetry. We assume that the materials exhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Wojciech Rudziński , Józef Barnaś , Anna Dyrdał

Altermagnetism has emerged as a third fundamental category of collinear magnetism, characterized by spin-splitting in symmetry-compensated collinear antiferromagnets, opening new frontiers in spintronics and condensed matter physics. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-20 Qiuyue Ma , Busheng Wang , Guochun Yang , Yong Liu

Despite the weak nature of interlayer forces in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials, their properties are highly dependent on the number of layers in the few-layer two-dimensional (2D) limit. Here, we present a combined scanning…

The combination of altermagnetism, twistronics and valleytronics is of great significance for potential applications in advanced electronic devices. Twisted magnetic van der Waals bilayers have been identified as an ideal platform for…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-21 San-Dong Guo , Yichen Liu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

We investigate the dipolar-exchange spin wave spectrum in thin ferromagnetic bilayers with inplane magnetization, incorporating interlayer exchange coupling and intra- and interlayer dipolar interactions. In the continuum approximation we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Rob den Teuling , Ritesh Das , Artem V. Bondarenko , Elena V. Tartakovskaya , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Yaroslav M. Blanter

The stacking of intrinsically magnetic van der Waals materials provides a fertile platform to explore tunable transport effects of magnons, presenting significant prospects for spintronic applications. The possibility of having…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Zhi-Xing Lin , Shu 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