Topological magnon band structure of emergent Landau levels in a skyrmion lattice

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Contributors

  • T. Weber - , ILL - Institut Laue-Langevin (Author)
  • D. M. Fobes - , Los Alamos National Laboratory (Author)
  • Johannes Waizner - , University of Cologne (Author)
  • P. Steffens - , ILL - Institut Laue-Langevin (Author)
  • G. S. Tucker - , Paul Scherrer Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) (Author)
  • M. Böhm - , ILL - Institut Laue-Langevin (Author)
  • L. Beddrich - , Technical University of Munich (Author)
  • C. Franz - , Technical University of Munich (Author)
  • H. Gabold - , Technical University of Munich (Author)
  • R. Bewley - , Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Author)
  • D. Voneshen - , Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Royal Holloway University of London (Author)
  • M. Skoulatos - , Technical University of Munich (Author)
  • R. Georgii - , Technical University of Munich (Author)
  • G. Ehlers - , Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Author)
  • A. Bauer - , Technical University of Munich (Author)
  • Christian Pfleiderer - , Technical University of Munich (Author)
  • P. Böni - , Technical University of Munich (Author)
  • M. Janoschek - , Los Alamos National Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institute, University of Zurich (Author)
  • M. Garst - , Chair of Theoretical Solid State Physics, University of Cologne, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Author)

Abstract

The motion of a spin excitation across topologically nontrivial magnetic order exhibits a deflection that is analogous to the effect of the Lorentz force on an electrically charged particle in an orbital magnetic field. We used polarized inelastic neutron scattering to investigate the propagation of magnons (i.e., bosonic collective spin excitations) in a lattice of skyrmion tubes in manganese silicide. For wave vectors perpendicular to the skyrmion tubes, the magnon spectra are consistent with the formation of finely spaced emergent Landau levels that are characteristic of the fictitious magnetic field used to account for the nontrivial topological winding of the skyrmion lattice. This provides evidence of a topological magnon band structure in reciprocal space, which is borne out of the nontrivial real-space topology of a magnetic order.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1025-1030
Number of pages6
JournalScience
Volume375
Issue number6584
Publication statusPublished - 4 Mar 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

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PubMed 35239388

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