Topological magnon band structure of emergent Landau levels in a skyrmion lattice
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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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1025-1030 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Science |
Volume | 375 |
Issue number | 6584 |
Publication status | Published - 4 Mar 2022 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
PubMed | 35239388 |
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