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 …

Chiral spintronics

SH Yang, R Naaman, Y Paltiel, SSP Parkin - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
As spins move through a chiral electric field, the resulting spin current can acquire chirality
through a spin–orbit interaction. Such spin currents are highly useful in creating spin–orbit …

Axion optical induction of antiferromagnetic order

JX Qiu, C Tzschaschel, J Ahn, A Gao, H Li, XY Zhang… - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
Using circularly polarized light to control quantum matter is a highly intriguing topic in
physics, chemistry and biology. Previous studies have demonstrated helicity-dependent …

Axion quasiparticles for axion dark matter detection

J Schütte-Engel, DJE Marsh, AJ Millar… - … of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
It has been suggested that certain antiferromagnetic topological insulators contain axion
quasiparticles (AQs), and that such materials could be used to detect axion dark matter …

Ultrafast microscopy of a twisted plasmonic spin skyrmion

Y Dai, Z Zhou, A Ghosh, K Kapoor… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We report a transient plasmonic spin skyrmion topological quasiparticle within surface
plasmon polariton vortices, which is described by analytical modeling and imaging of its …

Photonic axion insulator

GG Liu, S Mandal, X **, Q Wang, C Devescovi… - Science, 2025 - science.org
Axions, hypothetical elementary particles that remain undetectable in nature, can arise as
quasiparticles in three-dimensional crystals known as axion insulators. Previous …

Topotaxial mutual-exchange growth of magnetic Zintl Eu3In2As4 nanowires with axion insulator classification

MS Song, L Houben, Y Zhao, H Bae, N Rothem… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Due to quasi-one-dimensional confinement, nanowires possess unique electronic
properties, which can promote specific device architectures. However, nanowire growth …

Topology and symmetry in quantum materials

B Singh, H Lin, A Bansil - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Interest in topological materials continues to grow unabated in view of their conceptual
novelties as well as their potential as platforms for transformational new technologies …

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 …

Routes to realize the axion-insulator phase in MnBi2Te4 (Bi2Te3) n family

Y Zhao, Q Liu - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Axion, first postulated as a hypothetical particle in high-energy physics, is now extended to
describe a novel topological magnetoelectric effect derived from the Chern–Simons theory …