Topological spintronics and magnetoelectronics

QL He, TL Hughes, NP Armitage, Y Tokura, KL Wang - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Topological electronic materials, such as topological insulators, are distinct from trivial
materials in the topology of their electronic band structures that lead to robust …

Magnetic topological insulators

Y Tokura, K Yasuda, A Tsukazaki - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
The importance of global band topology is unequivocally recognized in condensed matter
physics, and new states of matter, such as topological insulators, have been discovered …

Nonreciprocal responses from non-centrosymmetric quantum materials

Y Tokura, N Nagaosa - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Directional transport and propagation of quantum particle and current, such as electron,
photon, spin, and phonon, are known to occur in the materials system with broken inversion …

Axion physics in condensed-matter systems

DM Nenno, CAC Garcia, J Gooth, C Felser… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Axions are hypothetical particles that were proposed to solve the strong charge–parity
problem in high-energy physics. Although they have long been known in quantum field …

Giant chiral magnetoelectric oscillations in a van der Waals multiferroic

FY Gao, X Peng, X Cheng, E Viñas Boström, DS Kim… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Helical spin structures are expressions of magnetically induced chirality, entangling the
dipolar and magnetic orders in materials,,–. The recent discovery of helical van der Waals …

Direct observation of topological magnon polarons in a multiferroic material

S Bao, ZL Gu, Y Shangguan, Z Huang, J Liao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Magnon polarons are novel elementary excitations possessing hybrid magnonic and
phononic signatures, and are responsible for many exotic spintronic and magnonic …

Orbital effects in solids: Basics, recent progress, and opportunities

DI Khomskii, SV Streltsov - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The properties of transition metal compounds are largely determined by nontrivial interplay
of different degrees of freedom: charge, spin, lattice, and also orbital ones. Especially rich …

Optical Tellegen metamaterial with spontaneous magnetization

S Safaei Jazi, I Faniayeu, R Cichelero… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The nonreciprocal magnetoelectric effect, also known as the Tellegen effect, promises a
number of groundbreaking phenomena connected to fundamental (eg, electrodynamics of …

High-Temperature Terahertz Optical Diode Effect without Magnetic Order in Polar

S Yu, B Gao, JW Kim, SW Cheong, MKL Man, J Madéo… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We present a terahertz spectroscopic study of polar ferrimagnet FeZnMo 3 O 8. Our main
finding is a giant high-temperature optical diode effect, or nonreciprocal directional …

Symmetric and antisymmetric constitutive tensors for bi-isotropic and bi-anisotropic media

PDS Silva, R Casana, MM Ferreira Jr - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
The Maxwell equations and the constitutive relations describe the classical propagation of
electromagnetic waves in continuous matter. Here, we investigate the effects stemming from …