Progress and prospects in magnetic topological materials

BA Bernevig, C Felser, H Beidenkopf - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic topological materials represent a class of compounds with properties that are
strongly influenced by the topology of their electronic wavefunctions coupled with the …

Magnetic skyrmion materials

Y Tokura, N Kanazawa - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Skyrmion, a concept originally proposed in particle physics half a century ago, can now find
the most fertile field for its applicability, that is, the magnetic skyrmion realized in …

Square and rhombic lattices of magnetic skyrmions in a centrosymmetric binary compound

R Takagi, N Matsuyama, V Ukleev, L Yu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable swirling spin textures with particle-like
character, and have been intensively studied as a candidate of high-density information bit …

Weyl-mediated helical magnetism in NdAlSi

J Gaudet, HY Yang, S Baidya, B Lu, G Xu, Y Zhao… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Emergent relativistic quasiparticles in Weyl semimetals are the source of exotic electronic
properties such as surface Fermi arcs, the anomalous Hall effect and negative …

Transition between distinct hybrid skyrmion textures through their hexagonal-to-square crystal transformation in a polar magnet

D Singh, Y Fujishiro, S Hayami, SH Moody… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions, topological vortex-like spin textures, garner significant interest due to
their unique properties and potential applications in nanotechnology. While they typically …

Large topological hall effect and spiral magnetic order in the Weyl semimetal SmAlSi

X Yao, J Gaudet, R Verma, DE Graf, HY Yang… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Weyl electrons are intensely studied due to novel charge transport phenomena such as
chiral anomaly, Fermi arcs, and photogalvanic effect. Recent theoretical works suggest that …

Meron, skyrmion, and vortex crystals in centrosymmetric tetragonal magnets

Z Wang, Y Su, SZ Lin, CD Batista - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The recent experimental confirmation of a transformation between meron and skyrmion
topological spin textures in the chiral magnet Co 8 Zn 9 Mn 3 [S.-Z. Lin et al., Phys. Rev. B …

Emergence of Weyl fermions by ferrimagnetism in a noncentrosymmetric magnetic Weyl semimetal

C Li, J Zhang, Y Wang, H Liu, Q Guo, E Rienks… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Condensed matter physics has often provided a platform for investigating the interplay
between particles and fields in cases that have not been observed in high-energy physics …

Anomalous Hall resistivity and possible topological Hall effect in the antiferromagnet

T Shang, Y Xu, DJ Gawryluk, JZ Ma, T Shiroka, M Shi… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We report the observation of anomalous Hall resistivity in single crystals of EuAl 4, a
centrosymmetric tetragonal compound, which exhibits coexisting antiferromagnetic (AFM) …

Nanometric skyrmion lattice from anisotropic exchange interactions in a centrosymmetric host

M Hirschberger, S Hayami, Y Tokura - New Journal of Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Skyrmion formation in centrosymmetric magnets without Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interactions
was originally predicted from unbiased numerical techniques. However, no attempt has yet …