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Evidence for hidden order and its potential correlation with electron-hole asymmetry in iridate superlattices
Zhihan Qiao, Han Zhang, Hangtian Wang +12
Hidden order refers to an order that shapes the properties of quantum materials yet remains difficult to identify. Here we report signatures of a hidden order in doped iridate supe…
Electron-beam Writing of Spectrally Uniform Green Single-photon Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Qingsong Tao, Fuyi Zhou, Zhijie Li +16
Scalable quantum photonic technologies require single-photon emitters whose positions and emission energies can be engineered simultaneously. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an at…
Moiré Strain Skyrmions in Sliding Twisted Bilayers
Rong Hu, Yu-Tao Tan, Dapeng Liu +2
Strain defect is crucial to the physical properties of solid materials. Among them, strain glass induced by defect engineering provides an important paradigm for nanoscale domain m…
Topological phononics
Zeguo Chen, Tiantian Zhang, Xulong Wang +12
Topological phononics extends the foundational concepts of topological condensed matter physics to the realm of lattice vibrations and classical mechanical waves, unlocking robust,…
The 2026 Skyrmionics Roadmap
Sabri Koraltan, Claas Abert, Manfred Albrecht +64
Magnetic skyrmions and related topological spin textures have emerged as a central topic in condensed-matter physics, combining fundamental significance with potential for transfor…
Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum Polarization in Thouless Topological Charge Pumping
Esmaeil Taghizadeh Sisakht, Uiseok Jeong, Xiao jiang +4
Quantized charge pumping in one-dimensional chiral wires has been widely studied in the context of topological physics in a (1+1)-dimensional synthetic space, yet the role of orbit…
Phonon Spin Selective One-Way Axial Phonon Transport in Chiral Nanohelix
Jia Li, Yu-Tao Tan, Yizhou Liu +1
Selectively exciting and manipulating phonons at nanoscale becomes more and more important but still remains challenging in modern nano-energy control and information sensing. Here…
Photomagnetic-Chiral Anisotropy mediated by Chirality-Driven Asymmetric Spin Splitting
Tianwei Ouyang, Hang Su, Wanning Zhang +4
Photomagnetic effects (PMEs), intrinsic to transition metals, arises from the interaction between light-induced angular momentum and electronic spin. These effects are suppressed i…
Collective Interference of Phonon Spin and Dipole Moment Rotation Induced Circular Dichroism
Yizhou Liu, Yu-Tao Tan, Dapeng Liu +1
The classical field description of phonon spin relies on the invariance of a continuous elastic field under infinitesimal rotation. However, a local medium element in the continuou…
Advances in Phonons: From Band Topology to Phonon Chirality
Tiantian Zhang, Yizhou Liu, Hu Miao +1
Phonons, the quantized collective vibrations of a crystal lattice, are among the most fundamental bosonic excitations in condensed matter systems. They govern thermal transport, me…
Construction of Hopfion Crystals
Wen-Tao Hou, Zhuoxian Xiang, Yizhou Liu +1
Hopfions, three-dimensional topological solitons characterized by nontrivial Hopf indices, represent a fundamental class of field configurations that emerge across diverse areas of…
Orbital torque switching of perpendicular magnetization in light metal/ferrimagnet bilayers
Teng Xu, Aihua Tang, Kang Wang +2
Orbital torque, associated with orbital current, enables light metals to efficiently manipulate magnetization with rich tunability. A clear demonstration of perpendicular magnetiza…
Geometrical Nonlinear Hall Effect Induced by Lorentz Force
Junjie Yao, Yizhou Liu, Wenhui Duan
The recently discovered nonlinear Hall (NLH) effect arises either without external magnetic field (type-I) or with an in-plane magnetic field (type-II). In this work we propose a n…
Deep Band Crossings Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Effects
Nianlong Zou, He Li, Meng Ye +8
Nonlinear optical (NLO) effects in materials with band crossings have attracted significant research interests due to the divergent band geometric quantities around these crossings…
Valley-dependent Multiple Quantum States and Topological Transitions in Germanene-based Ferromagnetic van der Waals Heterostructures
Feng Xue, Jiaheng Li, Yizhou Liu +3
Topological and valleytronic materials are promising for spintronic and quantum applications due to their unique properties. Using first principles calculations, we demonstrate tha…
Sliding Dynamics of Current-Driven Skyrmion Crystal and Helix in Chiral Magnets
Ying-Ming Xie, Yizhou Liu, Naoto Nagaosa
The skyrmion crystal (SkX) and helix (HL) phases, present in typical chiral magnets, can each be considered as forms of density waves but with distinct topologies. The SkX exhibits…
Anomalous Circularly Polarized Light Emission induced by the Optical Berry Curvature Dipole
Yizhou Liu, Binghai Yan
The ability to selectively excite light with fixed handedness is crucial for circularly polarized light emission. It is commonly believed that the luminescent material chirality de…
Emergent topological quantum orbits in the charge density wave phase of kagome metal CsVSb
Hengxin Tan, Yongkang Li, Yizhou Liu +3
The recently discovered kagome materials VSb ( = K, Rb, Cs) attract intense research interest in intertwined topology, superconductivity, and charge density waves (CD…
Emergent Magneto-multipoles and Nonlinear Responses of a Magnetic Hopfion
Yizhou Liu, Hikaru Watanabe, Naoto Nagaosa
The three-dimensional emergent magnetic field of a magnetic hopfion gives rise to emergent magneto-multipoles in a similar manner to the multipoles of classical elec…
Electrical switching of ferro-rotational order in nano-thick 1T-TaS crystals
Gan Liu, Tianyu Qiu, Kuanyu He +13
Hysteretic switching of domain states is a salient character of all ferroic materials and the foundation for their multifunctional applications. Ferro-rotational order is emerging…
Unusual Spin Polarization in the Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity
Yotam Wolf, Yizhou Liu, Jiewen Xiao +2
Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) refers to the fact that electrons get spin polarized after passing through organic chiral molecules in a nanoscale device. In CISS, chiral…
Berry-curvature-induced linear magnetotransport in magnetic Weyl semimetals
Zetao Zhang, Yizhou Liu, Wenhui Duan
Magnetotransport such as the giant magnetoresistance and Hall effect lies at the heart of fundamental physics and technologies. Recently, some experiments have clearly demonstrated…
Anomalous circularly polarized light emission in organic light-emitting diodes caused by orbital-momentum locking
Li Wan, Yizhou Liu, Matthew J. Fuchter +1
Chiral circularly polarized (CP) light is central to many photonic technologies, from optical communication of spin information to novel display and imaging technologies. As such,…
Three-state nematicity and magneto-optical Kerr effect in the charge density waves in kagome superconductors
Yishuai Xu, Zhuoliang Ni, Yizhou Liu +6
The kagome lattice provides a fascinating playground to study geometrical frustration, topology and strong correlations. The newly-discovered kagome metals AVSb (where A ca…