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Topological Magnons and Edge States in Antiferromagnetic Skyrmion Crystals
Antiferromagnetic skyrmion crystals are magnetic phases predicted to exist in
antiferromagnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. Their spatially
periodic noncollinear magnetic texture gives rise to topological bulk magnon
bands characterized by nonzero Chern numbers. We find topologically-protected
chiral magnonic edge states over a wide range of magnetic fields and
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction values. Moreover, and of particular
importance for experimental realizations, edge states appear at the lowest
possible energies, namely, within the first bulk magnon gap. Thus,
antiferromagnetic skyrmion crystals show great promise as novel platforms for
topological magnonics.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Magnonic Quadrupole Topological Insulator in Antiskyrmion Crystals
When the crystalline symmetries that protect a higher-order topological phase
are not preserved at the boundaries of the sample, gapless hinge modes or
in-gap corner states cannot be stabilized. Therefore, careful engineering of
the sample termination is required. Similarly, magnetic textures, whose quantum
fluctuations determine the supported magnonic excitations, tend to relax to new
configurations that may also break crystalline symmetries when boundaries are
introduced. Here we uncover that antiskyrmion crystals provide an
experimentally accessible platform to realize a magnonic topological quadrupole
insulator, whose hallmark signature are robust magnonic corner states.
Furthermore, we show that tuning an applied magnetic field can trigger the
self-assembly of antiskyrmions carrying a fractional topological charge along
the sample edges. Crucially, these fractional antiskyrmions restore the
symmetries needed to enforce the emergence of the magnonic corner states. Using
the machinery of nested Wilson loops, adapted to magnonic systems supported by
noncollinear magnetic textures, we demonstrate the quantization of the bulk
quadrupole moment, edge dipole moments, and corner charges
On the Influence of Spatial Dispersion on the Performance of Graphene-Based Plasmonic Devices
We investigate the effect of spatial dispersion phenomenon on the performance
of graphene-based plasmonic devices at THz. For this purpose, two different
components, namely a phase shifter and a low-pass filter, are taken from the
literature, implemented in different graphene-based host waveguides, and
analyzed as a function of the surrounding media. In the analysis, graphene
conductivity is modeled first using the Kubo formalism and then employing a
full- model which accurately takes into account spatial dispersion. Our
study demonstrates that spatial dispersion up-shifts the frequency response of
the devices, limits their maximum tunable range, and degrades their frequency
response. Importantly, the influence of this phenomenon significantly increases
with higher permittivity values of the surrounding media, which is related to
the large impact of spatial dispersion in very slow waves. These results
confirm the necessity of accurately assessing non-local effects in the
development of practical plasmonic THz devices.Comment: 5 pages, 18 figures, 2 table
Sinusoidally-Modulated Graphene Leaky-Wave Antenna for Electronic Beamscanning at THz
This paper proposes the concept, analysis and design of a
sinusoidally-modulated graphene leaky-wave antenna with beam scanning
capabilities at a fixed frequency. The antenna operates at terahertz
frequencies and is composed of a graphene sheet transferred onto a
back-metallized substrate and a set of polysilicon DC gating pads located
beneath it. In order to create a leaky-mode, the graphene surface reactance is
sinusoidally-modulated via graphene's field effect by applying adequate DC bias
voltages to the different gating pads. The pointing angle and leakage rate can
be dynamically controlled by adjusting the applied voltages, providing
versatile beamscanning capabilities. The proposed concept and achieved
performance, computed using realistic material parameters, are extremely
promising for beamscanning at THz frequencies, and could pave the way to
graphene-based reconfigurable transceivers and sensors.Comment: 7 pages; 10 figure
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