Advances in artificial spin ice

SH Skjærvø, CH Marrows, RL Stamps… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Artificial spin ices consist of nanomagnets arranged on the sites of various periodic and
aperiodic lattices. They have enabled the experimental investigation of a variety of …

[HTML][HTML] Topological insulators and semimetals in classical magnetic systems

ZX Li, Y Cao, P Yan - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Pursuing topological phases in natural and artificial materials is one of the central topics in
modern physical science and engineering. In classical magnetic systems, spin waves (or …

Symmetry-protected zero modes in metamaterials based on topological spin texture

ZX Li, Y Cao, XR Wang, P Yan - Physical Review Applied, 2020 - APS
We predict the emergence of second-order topological insulators in the dynamics of spin-
texture-based metamaterials. We propose that the quantized Chern number and the Z 6 …

Higher-order topological solitonic insulators

Z Li, Y Cao, P Yan, X Wang - npj Computational Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Pursuing topological phase and matter in a variety of systems is one central issue in current
physical sciences and engineering. Motivated by the recent experimental observation of …

Second-order topological solitonic insulator in a breathing square lattice of magnetic vortices

ZX Li, Y Cao, XR Wang, P Yan - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We study the topological phase in a dipolar-coupled two-dimensional breathing square
lattice of magnetic vortices. By evaluating the quantized Chern number and Z 4 Berry phase …

Spatial and Temporal Correlations of XY Macro Spins

R Streubel, N Kent, S Dhuey, A Scholl, S Kevan… - Nano Letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
We use nano disk arrays with square and honeycomb symmetry to investigate magnetic
phases and spin correlations of XY dipolar systems at the micro scale. Utilizing …

Peculiar corner states in magnetic fractals

Z Li, P Yan - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Topological excitations in periodic magnetic crystals have received significant recent
attention. However, their fate once the lattice periodicity is broken is an open question. In this …

Spin-wave interference in magnetic vortex stacks

C Behncke, CF Adolff, N Lenzing, M Hänze… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Spin waves with wavelengths in the nanometre range could serve as data carriers in future
magnonic logic or signal processing devices. We investigate the interference of spin waves …

Chaotic dynamics in spin-vortex pairs

AV Bondarenko, E Holmgren, ZW Li, BA Ivanov… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We report on spin-vortex pair dynamics measured at temperatures low enough to suppress
stochastic core motion, thereby uncovering the highly nonlinear intrinsic dynamics of the …

Third-order topological insulator in three-dimensional lattice of magnetic vortices

ZX Li, Z Wang, Z Zhang, Y Cao, P Yan - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Recent acoustic and electrical-circuit experiments have reported the third-order (or octupole)
topological insulating phase, while its counterpart in classical magnetic systems has yet to …