Advances in light transverse momenta and optical lateral forces

Y Shi, X Xu, M Nieto-Vesperinas, Q Song… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
<? pag\vskip-16pt?> Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the
cornerstones in modern optics and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits …

First-principles calculations for Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction

H Yang, J Liang, Q Cui - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the magnetic interactions is of fundamental importance in condensed-matter
physics as well as in the application of spintronic devices. In the past 13 years, the …

Towards higher-dimensional structured light

C He, Y Shen, A Forbes - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

On-chip multi-degree-of-freedom control of two-dimensional materials

H Tang, Y Wang, X Ni, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional materials (2DM) and their heterostructures offer tunable electrical
and optical properties, primarily modifiable through electrostatic gating and twisting …

Generation of optical skyrmions with tunable topological textures

Y Shen, EC Martínez, C Rosales-Guzmán - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
In recent times, the optical-analogous skyrmions, topological quasiparticles with
sophisticated vectorial structures in light, have received an increasing amount of interest …

Statics and dynamics of skyrmions interacting with disorder and nanostructures

C Reichhardt, CJO Reichhardt, MV Milošević - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable nanoscale particlelike objects that were
discovered in 2009. Since that time, intense research interest in the field has led to the …

Supertoroidal light pulses as electromagnetic skyrmions propagating in free space

Y Shen, Y Hou, N Papasimakis, NI Zheludev - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Topological complex transient electromagnetic fields give access to nontrivial light-matter
interactions and provide additional degrees of freedom for information transfer. An important …

Chirality as generalized spin–orbit interaction in spintronics

T Yu, Z Luo, GEW Bauer - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Chirality or handedness distinguishes an object from its mirror images, such as the spread
thumb, index finger, and middle finger of the right and left hand. In mathematics, it is …

Optical skyrmions and other topological quasiparticles of light

Y Shen, Q Zhang, P Shi, L Du, X Yuan, AV Zayats - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
Skyrmions are topologically stable quasiparticles that have been predicted and
demonstrated in quantum fields, solid-state physics and magnetic materials, but only …

Universal quantum computation based on nanoscale skyrmion helicity qubits in frustrated magnets

J **a, X Zhang, X Liu, Y Zhou, M Ezawa - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We propose a skyrmion-based universal quantum computer. Skyrmions have the helicity
degree of freedom in frustrated magnets, where twofold degenerated Bloch-type skyrmions …