Higher-order Topological Phases of Magnons in van der Waals Honeycomb Ferromagnets

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العنوان: Higher-order Topological Phases of Magnons in van der Waals Honeycomb Ferromagnets
المؤلفون: Li, Yun-Mei, Wu, Ya-Jie, Luo, Xi-Wang, Huang, Yongwei, Chang, Kai
بيانات النشر: arXiv, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons, Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el), Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall), FOS: Physical sciences, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons
الوصف: We theoretically propose a second-order topological magnon insulator by stacking the van der Waals honeycomb ferromagnets with antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling. The system exhibits Z$_{2}$ topological phase, protected by pseudo-time-reversal symmetry (PTRS). An easy-plane anisotropy term breaks PTRS and destroys the topological phase. Nevertheless, it respects a magnetic two-fold rotational symmetry which protects a second-order topological phase with corner modes in bilayer and hinge modes along stacking direction. Moreover, an introduced staggered interlayer coupling establishes a Z$_{2}$$\times$Z topology, giving rise to gapped topological surface modes carrying non-zero Chern numbers. Consequently, chiral hinge modes propagate along the horizontal hinges in a cuboid geometry and are robust against disorders. Our work bridges the higher-order topology and magnons in van der Waals platforms, and could be used for constructing topological magnonic devices.
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2202.08424
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حقوق: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....da7dfcd3c63359541bc4557ded1bb2fe
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