The 2022 magneto-optics roadmap

A Kimel, A Zvezdin, S Sharma… - Journal of Physics D …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Magneto-optical (MO) effects, viz. magnetically induced changes in light intensity or
polarization upon reflection from or transmission through a magnetic sample, were …

Interaction-stabilized topological magnon insulator in ferromagnets

A Mook, K Plekhanov, J Klinovaja, D Loss - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Condensed matter systems admit topological collective excitations above a trivial ground
state, an example being Chern insulators formed by Dirac bosons with a gap at finite …

Quantum-to-classical crossover in generalized spin systems: Temperature-dependent spin dynamics of

D Dahlbom, FT Brooks, MS Wilson, S Chi… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Simulating quantum spin systems at finite temperatures is an open challenge in many-body
physics. This work studies the temperature-dependent spin dynamics of a pivotal compound …

CP2 skyrmions and skyrmion crystals in realistic quantum magnets

H Zhang, Z Wang, D Dahlbom, K Barros… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale topological textures that have been recently observed in
different families of quantum magnets. These objects are called CP1 skyrmions because …

Chiral phonons induced from spin dynamics via magnetoelastic anisotropy

B Ma, ZD Wang, G Chen - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We propose a mechanism to obtain chiral phononlike excitations from the bond-dependent
magnetoelastic couplings in the absence of out-of-plane magnetization and magnetic fields …

Bose–Einstein condensation of a two-magnon bound state in a spin-1 triangular lattice

J Sheng, JW Mei, L Wang, X Xu, W Jiang, L Xu, H Ge… - Nature Materials, 2025 - nature.com
In ordered magnets, the elementary excitations are spin waves (magnons), which obey Bose–
Einstein statistics. Similarly to Cooper pairs in superconductors, magnons can be paired into …

Magnons, magnon bound pairs, and their hybrid spin-multipolar topology

A Mook, R Hoyer, J Klinovaja, D Loss - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We consider quantum condensed matter systems without particle-number conservation.
Since the particle number is not a good quantum number, states belonging to different …

Instabilities of heavy magnons in an anisotropic magnet

X Bai, SS Zhang, H Zhang, Z Dun, WA Phelan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The search for new elementary particles is one of the most basic pursuits in physics,
spanning from subatomic physics to quantum materials. Magnons are the ubiquitous …

High-Angular Momentum Excitations in Collinear Antiferromagnet FePS3

J Wyzula, I Mohelsky, D Václavková, P Kapuscinski… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report on magneto-optical studies of the quasi-two-dimensional van der Waals
antiferromagnet FePS3. Our measurements reveal an excitation that closely resembles the …

Multimagnon dynamics and thermalization in the easy-axis ferromagnetic chain

P Sharma, K Lee, HJ Changlani - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Quasiparticles are physically motivated mathematical constructs for simplifying the
seemingly complicated many-body description of solids. A complete understanding of their …