Topological magnons: A review

PA McClarty - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
At sufficiently low temperatures, magnetic materials often enter correlated phases hosting
collective, coherent magnetic excitations such as magnons or triplons. Drawing on the …

Topological aspects of antiferromagnets

V Bonbien, F Zhuo, A Salimath, O Ly… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The long fascination that antiferromagnetic materials has exerted on the scientific community
over about a century has been entirely renewed recently with the discovery of several …

Anomalous thermal hall effect in an insulating van der waals magnet

H Zhang, C Xu, C Carnahan, M Sretenovic, N Suri… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnets have been a fertile playground for the
discovery and exploration of physical phenomena and new physics. In this Letter, we report …

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 …

Thermal Hall effect of magnons in collinear antiferromagnetic insulators: Signatures of magnetic and topological phase transitions

RR Neumann, A Mook, J Henk, I Mertig - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We demonstrate theoretically that the thermal Hall effect of magnons in collinear
antiferromagnetic insulators is an indicator of magnetic and topological phase transitions in …

Breakdown of chiral edge modes in topological magnon insulators

J Habel, A Mook, J Willsher, J Knolle - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Topological magnon insulators (TMI) are ordered magnets supporting chiral edge magnon
excitations. These edge states are envisioned to serve as topologically protected information …

Thermal Hall effects in quantum magnets

XT Zhang, YH Gao, G Chen - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
In the recent years, the thermal Hall transport has risen as an important diagnosis of the
physical properties of the elementary excitations in various quantum materials, especially …

Quantum magnetism in minerals

DS Inosov - Advances in Physics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The discovery of magnetism by the ancient Greeks was enabled by the natural occurrence of
lodestone–a magnetized version of the mineral magnetite. Nowadays, natural minerals …

Topological phases in magnonics

F Zhuo, J Kang, A Manchon… - Advanced Physics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Magnonics or magnon spintronics is an emerging field focusing on generating, detecting,
and manipulating magnons. As charge‐neutral quasi‐particles, magnons are promising …

Topological states on the breathing kagome lattice

A Bolens, N Nagaosa - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We theoretically study the topological properties of the tight-binding model on the breathing
kagome lattice with antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling (SOC) between nearest neighbors. We …