Chiral topological matter
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In recent years, research on novel materials and unconventional properties of condensed matter systems has unveiled an ever-growing intertwining between the concepts of topology and chirality. Whether chirality is intrinsically present in a material’s crystal symmetry and interactions, or instead emerges as the result of spontaneously broken symmetries and phase transitions, we often find that non-trivial topological order is accompanied by the emergence of chiral order or chiral quasiparticle states, and vice versa, chiral symmetries and interactions often result in non-trivial topologies of electronic and magnetic ordered states. Examples of this intimate interconnection include the chiral surface states of magnetic topological insulators, the intrinsic chirality of Weyl fermions in topological semimetals, emerging chiral flux phases or charge density wave order in kagome metals, chiral spin or polarization textures in magnetic or multiferroic skyrmionic systems, and the ubiquitous hallmark of the topological Hall effect characterizing these systems.
This Collection brings together the latest advances in our understanding of quantum materials where the intertwining of chirality and topology gives rise to novel and unexpected phenomenology.
We welcome the submission of any paper related to topological chiral quantum materials. All submissions will be subject to the same review process and editorial standards as regular Communications Materials Articles.
Editors
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Toru Hirahara
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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Jia-Xin Yin
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
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Jianjun Ying
University of Science and Technology of China, China
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Ilija Zeljkovic
Boston College, United States
