Topological responses from gapped Weyl points in 2D altermagnets
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2025-06-05 v2 Materials Science
Abstract
We study the symmetry requirements for topologically protected spin-polarized Weyl points in 2D altermagnets. The topology is characterized by a quantized -Berry phase and the degeneracy is protected by spin-space group symmetries. Gapped phases with finite Chern and/or spin/chirality Chern numbers emerge under different symmetry-breaking mass terms. We investigate the surface and transport properties of these gapped phases using representative electronic tight-binding and magnonic linear spin-wave models. In particular, we calculate the electronic and magnonic Hall currents and discuss implications for experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2403.09520,
title = {Topological responses from gapped Weyl points in 2D altermagnets},
author = {Kirill Parshukov and Raymond Wiedmann and Andreas P. Schnyder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09520},
year = {2025}
}
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20 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables