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 …

Skyrmion-electronics: writing, deleting, reading and processing magnetic skyrmions toward spintronic applications

X Zhang, Y Zhou, KM Song, TE Park… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of magnetic skyrmions has been actively investigated across a wide range of topics
during the last decades. In this topical review, we mainly review and discuss key results and …

Light–matter interaction empowered by orbital angular momentum: Control of matter at the micro-and nanoscale

A Porfirev, S Khonina, A Kuchmizhak - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is an important feature of structured
electromagnetic fields exhibiting non-uniform spatial distribution. In contrast to a spin …

[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 …

Optical polarization skyrmionic fields in free space

R Gutiérrez-Cuevas, E Pisanty - Journal of Optics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We construct optical beams in free space with robust skyrmionic structures in their
polarization fields, both in the electric spin vector for near-circular fields and in the …

Twisted magnon frequency comb and Penrose superradiance

Z Wang, HY Yuan, Y Cao, P Yan - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Quantization effects of the nonlinear magnon-vortex interaction in ferromagnetic nanodisks
are studied. We show that the circular geometry twists the spin-wave fields with spiral phase …

Observation of magnetic helicoidal dichroism with extreme ultraviolet light vortices

M Fanciulli, M Pancaldi, E Pedersoli, M Vimal… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We report on the experimental evidence of magnetic helicoidal dichroism, observed in the
interaction of an extreme ultraviolet vortex beam carrying orbital angular momentum with a …

[PDF][PDF] Topological quasiparticles of light: optical skyrmions and beyond

Y Shen, Q Zhang, P Shi, L Du, AV Zayats… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - kclpure.kcl.ac.uk
Skyrmions are topologically stable quasiparticles that have been predicted and
demonstrated in quantum fields, solid-state physics, and magnetic materials, but only …

Twisted magnon as a magnetic tweezer

Y Jiang, HY Yuan, ZX Li, Z Wang, HW Zhang, Y Cao… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Wave fields with spiral phase dislocations carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have
been realized in many branches of physics, such as for photons, sound waves, electron …

Difference between angular momentum and pseudoangular momentum

S Streib - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
In condensed matter systems it is necessary to distinguish between the momentum of the
constituents of the system and the pseudomomentum of quasiparticles. The same distinction …