Topological magnon insulators in two-dimensional van der Waals ferromagnets CrSiTe3 and CrGeTe3: Toward intrinsic gap-tunability

F Zhu, L Zhang, X Wang, FJ Dos Santos, J Song… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The bosonic analogs of topological insulators have been proposed in numerous theoretical
works, but their experimental realization is still very rare, especially for spin systems …

Topological magnon insulator spin excitations in the two-dimensional ferromagnet

Z Cai, S Bao, ZL Gu, YP Gao, Z Ma, Y Shangguan, W Si… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Topological magnons are bosonic analogues of topological fermions in electronic systems.
They have been studied extensively by theory but rarely realized by experiment. Here, by …

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 …

Flavor-wave theory with quasiparticle damping at finite temperatures: Application to chiral edge modes in the Kitaev model

S Koyama, J Nasu - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We propose a theoretical framework to investigate elementary excitations at finite
temperatures within a localized electron model that describes the interactions between …

Stacking-dependent topological magnons in bilayer

M Soenen, C Bacaksiz, RM Menezes… - Physical Review Materials, 2023 - APS
Motivated by the potential of atomically thin magnets towards achieving tunable high-
frequency magnonics, we detail the spin-wave dispersion of bilayer CrI 3. We demonstrate …

Magnon corner states in twisted bilayer honeycomb magnets

CB Hua, F Xiao, ZR Liu, JH Sun, JH Gao, CZ Chen… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The study of symmetry-protected topological phases of matter has been extended from
fermionic electron systems to various bosonic systems. Bosonic topological magnon phases …

[HTML][HTML] Strain engineering of magnetic exchange and topological magnons in chromium trihalides from first-principles

DL Esteras, JJ Baldoví - Materials Today Electronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent experiments evidence the direct observation of spin waves in chromium trihalides
and the presence of a gap at the Dirac points of the magnon dispersion in bulk CrI 3 …

Tunable magnon topology in monolayer under external stimuli

M Soenen, MV Milošević - Physical Review Materials, 2023 - APS
Two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb ferromagnets, such as monolayer chromium trihalides,
are predicted to behave as topological magnon insulators, characterized by an insulating …

Topological magnon gap engineering in van der Waals ferromagnets

V Brehm, P Sobieszczyk, JN Kløgetvedt, RFL Evans… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The microscopic origin of the topological magnon band gap in CrI 3 ferromagnets has been
a subject of controversy for years since two main models with distinct characteristics, ie …

Toroidal magnetic molecules stripped to their basics

D Pister, K Irländer, D Westerbeck, J Schnack - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
Molecular magnetic toroidal moments are molecule-based structures of quantum spins that
are expected to boost magnetic storage technology and quantum computing. We study …