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Ai Yamakage

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Ferromagnetic resonance modulation in topological materials with bulk--boundary coexistence

We extend ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) modulation theory to describe systems in which bulk and boundary states of topological materials coexist, with both appearing at the same energy. As an application of the formulation, we investigate the enhancement of the Gilbert damping constant on the $(110)$ surface of a $d$-wave superconductor where nodal quasiparticles coexist with edge states, which are one-dimensional boundary states, known as surface zero-energy Andreev bound states. We find two characteristic features: a pronounced edge-to-edge excitation peak near zero energy, and an additional edge-to-bulk excitation peak at the superconducting gap energy. We also observe power-law decay at low temperatures and exponential decay at intermediate temperatures in the low-energy regime. These features demonstrate the comparable contributions of the bulk and boundary states to the FMR response. Our theory provides a broadly applicable framework for the analysis of topological materials.

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Competition between on-site and off-site pairing phases and surface spectra in superconducting wallpaper fermion systems

We theoretically investigate the competition between on-site and off-site pairings in superconducting topological crystalline insulators hosting wallpaper fermions, a class of surface states protected by nonsymmorphic symmetries. In-plane nearest-neighbor pair hopping stabilizes the $\mathrm{A_{1u}}$ phase, while off-site pairing channels yield additional dominant phases with $\mathrm{B_{2u}}$ and $\mathrm{E_u}$ representations. We further show that the $\mathrm{B_{2u}}$ pairing state supports the hybridization between wallpaper-fermion spectra themselves, whereas a representative time-reversal-invariant nematic $\mathrm{E_u}$ state exhibits spectral hybridization between wallpaper fermion and double Majorana Kramers pairs, yielding twisted surface energy spectra. These results demonstrate that the twisted dispersions arising from hybridization phenomena persist in the presence of off-site pairing interactions.

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Valley Hall Viscosity in Gapped Graphene with and without a Magnetic Field

Hall viscosity is conventionally defined through the stress response to time-dependent strain, a perturbation that is difficult to implement in solid-state experiments. We formulate a related viscoelastic response to static, spatially inhomogeneous electric fields and compare it with the strain-based response. For gapped graphene in a perpendicular magnetic field, the two formulations give the same Landau-level response, whose Hall viscosity is asymmetric between the two valleys. At zero magnetic field, a valley-even quantum-metric coefficient combines with the valley-odd Hall conductivity to produce equal and opposite valley-resolved responses; global time-reversal symmetry therefore forces the net Hall viscosity to vanish. In an insulating state, exact particle--hole symmetry eliminates this zero-field response, whereas particle--hole-symmetry breaking generates a cutoff-dependent geometric contribution from the occupied Fermi sea. These results connect valley-dependent viscoelasticity with electromagnetic response in gapped Dirac materials and clarify the conditions under which a valley Hall viscosity can arise.

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Cusped Electrical Conductivity in Spin-1 Chiral Fermion Systems Arising from Multifold Band Degeneracy

The energy-dependent electrical conductivity in spin-1 chiral fermion systems with disorder is studied using the self-consistent Born approximation. A distinct cusp-like feature appears at an energy different from the band-crossing point, arising from the multifold band-crossing structure formed by the Dirac and trivial bands. The energy position of the cusp and the corresponding value of the electrical conductivity are found to depend sensitively on both the impurity scattering strength and the curvature of the trivial band. These findings demonstrate the critical role of multifold band crossings and disorder-induced broadening of energy levels in determining the transport properties, offering theoretical insight into the unconventional conductivity behavior observed in topological semimetals hosting spin-1 chiral fermions.

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Double-twisted surface spectrum from hybridized Majorana Kramers pairs and wallpaper fermions

We theoretically investigate the superconducting surface states of wallpaper fermions, which are surface quasiparticles of topological nonsymmorphic crystalline insulators protected by a wallpaper group $p4g$ symmetry, based on a tight-binding model for the space group $P4/mbm$ (No. 127). A symmetry-based analysis shows that four types of on-site pair potentials are allowed. Using the symmetries of the wallpaper group $p4g$ and the one-dimensional topological invariants, we clarify that for the $\mathrm{A_{1u}}$ representation, wallpaper fermions and two Majorana Kramers pairs coexist, and hybridization between them give rise to a double-twisted surface state and produces four peaks in the surface density of states. We further find that the mirror Chern number vanishes, indicating that our system realizes mirror-helicity-free surface states. This distinguishes superconducting wallpaper fermions from the other superconducting topological (crystalline) insulators, such as $\mathrm{Cu}_x\mathrm{Bi}_2\mathrm{Se}_3$ and $\mathrm{Sn}_{1-x}\mathrm{In}_x\mathrm{Te}$.

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Quantum Geometric Origin of Hall Viscosity and Nonlocal Hall Conductivity in Lattice Bands

We show that Hall viscosity in lattice bands is governed by a band-projected electric quadrupole encoded within the quantum geometry: Berry curvature sets the projected-coordinate algebra, while the quantum metric determines the quadrupolar spread of a wave packet. The same structure enters the quadratic wave-vector coefficient of the nonlocal Hall conductivity, yielding a lattice viscosity-conductivity relation. In ideal bands, the deviation from the Landau-level form is quantified by Berry curvature fluctuations. Our results establish the nonlocal Hall response as an electrical signature of the quantum geometry underlying Hall viscosity and as a transport diagnostic of geometric idealness.

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Gyromagnetic Quantum Friction in Rayleigh Vorticity Baths

We identify an intrinsic zero-temperature relaxation channel for near-surface spins gyromagnetically coupled to Rayleigh-wave vorticity. This surface-mode contribution requires no thermal phonons, unlike Raman relaxation, and is fixed by Rayleigh vorticity rather than material-specific $g$-factor modulation. The Rayleigh-vorticity bath is super-Ohmic and evanescent with depth, producing field and depth scalings of spin relaxation. These scalings establish shallow spin sensors and hybrid surface-acoustic-wave spin interfaces as detectors of Rayleigh-wave acoustic quantum friction in solids.

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Thermoelectric enhancement from an asymmetric spectral-conductivity cusp in spin-1 chiral fermions

A recent study showed that, in spin-1 chiral fermion systems composed of two linearly dispersing bands and one trivial band, impurity scattering produces an asymmetric cusp in the spectral conductivity. We demonstrate that this asymmetric cusp markedly enhances the electronic thermoelectric response. Using linear-response theory within the self-consistent Born approximation, we find low-temperature enhancements in both the Seebeck coefficient and the electronic figure of merit. Increasing the curvature of the trivial band further strengthens this cusp-induced enhancement, even though the corresponding density of states becomes smoother. To clarify this mechanism, we introduce a minimal cusp model for the spectral conductivity and show that the enhancement is most pronounced when the cusp is sharp and strongly asymmetric, and when the spectral conductivity at the cusp energy is small.

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Generalized continuum theory of phonon angular momentum in crystals

We formulate a generalized continuum theory of phonon angular momentum in crystals by introducing a local SO(3) material frame in addition to the macroscopic displacement field. The local frame represents rotational optical degrees of freedom of the unit cell and brings acoustic displacement modes and optical rotational modes into a common long-wavelength continuum description. In the linearized limit, the co-rotated deformation gradient and the rotational gradient associated with the local material frame recover the Eringen microdeformation and wryness tensors; isotropic micropolar elasticity then appears as a special case. Rotational symmetry and Noether's theorem determine the continuum phonon angular-momentum density, including both the displacement-polarization contribution and the intrinsic microrotation contribution. The theory further identifies the locking limit in which microrotation reduces to lattice vorticity and the improper-symmetry-breaking terms responsible for chiral phonon splitting.

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Designing XY and Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya couplings in Majorana Cooper pair boxes

We theoretically study how to design spin couplings in networks of Majorana Cooper pair boxes (MCBs) connected by multiple normal-metal leads. The inter-box interaction is generated by the conduction-electron-mediated Ruderman--Kittel--Kasuya--Yosida (RKKY) interaction. We show that the connectivity of Majoranas to the leads enables arbitrary types of couplings. As concrete examples, we show the realization of the XY exchange interaction and the Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya (DM) interaction, which are difficult to implement in previously proposed MCB-based schemes. The sign and magnitude of the couplings can be tuned continuously via gate-controlled tunneling amplitudes. These results establish MCBs as a versatile platform for engineered quantum spin systems.

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Superconducting Gap Structures in Wallpaper Fermion Systems

We theoretically investigate the superconducting gap structures in wallpaper fermions, which are surface states of topological nonsymmorphic crystalline insulators, based on a two-dimensional effective model. A symmetry analysis identifies six types of momentum-independent pair potentials. One hosts a point node, two host line nodes, and the remaining three are fully gapped. By classifying the Bogoliubov--de Gennes Hamiltonian in the zero-dimensional symmetry class, we show that the point and line nodes are protected by $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological invariants. In addition, for the twofold-rotation-odd pair potential, nodes appear on the glide-invariant line and are protected by crystalline symmetries, as clarified by the Mackey--Bradley theorem.

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Realization of a universal topological waveguide by tuning adiabatic geometry

Quantum valley Hall-based topological phases have been attracting attention across diverse fields as a robust platform for wave guidance due to their high compatibility with engineering frameworks. Combining three representative boundary types enables topological waveguides with flexible designability and enhanced functionality. However, one of the three, namely the armchair boundary, has long been limited by inter-valley scattering, resulting in weak topological protection and severely restricting its use in practical devices. This long-standing constraint is a major barrier to realizing broadly applicable topological waveguide systems. Here, to address this challenge toward a broadly applicable design framework for topological waveguides, we experimentally demonstrate that topological adiabatic geometry implemented in a micro electromechanical system suppresses valley mixing. We found that the adiabaticity enhances immunity to defects and increases the transmission efficiency of the armchair boundary. As the adiabaticity increases, topological protection is recovered over an increasingly broad portion of the bulk band gap, extending from low to high frequencies. Furthermore, we show that the recovery of protection in the adiabatic armchair boundary enables waves to propagate through 90^° and 150^°-bent waveguides by coupling with other interface geometries. Suppressing valley mixing via adiabaticity paves the way for a universal design framework for topological waveguides and for restoring robust topological characteristics across a wide range of wave phenomena.

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Orbital-related gyrotropic responses in Cu$_2$WSe$_4$ and chirality indicator

In recent years, counterparts of phenomena studied in spintronics have been actively explored in the orbital sector. The relationship between orbital degrees of freedom and crystal chirality has also been intensively investigated, although the distinction from gyrotropic properties has not been fully clarified. In this work, we investigate spin and orbital Edelstein effects as well as the nonlinear responses in the ternary transition-metal chalcogenide Cu$_2$WSe$_4$, which has a gyrotropic but achiral crystal structure. We find that in the Edelstein effect, magnetization is dominated by the orbital contribution rather than the spin contribution. On the other hand, both the nonlinear chiral thermoelectric (NCTE) Hall effect--a response to the cross product of the electric field and the temperature gradient--and the nonlinear Hall effect--conventional second-order response to the electric field--are found to be dominated by the Berry curvature dipole. We further find that spin-orbit coupling plays only a minor role in these effects, whereas the orbital degrees of freedom are essential. Finally, we demonstrate that the orbital magnetic-moment contributions to both the Edelstein effect and the NCTE Hall effect are closely linked to chirality, and we discuss the possibility of using them as a chirality indicator.

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Spin Pumping into two-dimensional systems

In this review, we present recent theoretical developments on spin transport phenomena probed by ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) modulation in two-dimensional systems coupled to magnetic materials. We first address FMR linewidth enhancements induced by spin pumping at interfaces, emphasizing their potential as sensitive probes of superconducting pairing symmetries in two-dimensional superconductors. We then examine FMR modulation due to spin pumping into two-dimensional electron gases formed in semiconductor heterostructures, where the interplay of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions enables gate-controlled spin transport and persistent spin textures. Finally, we investigate spin pumping in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides, where spin-valley coupling and Berry curvature effects lead to valley-selective spin excitations and a spin-current Hall effect. These developments demonstrate that the spin pumping technique provides a versatile tool for probing spin transport and spin-dependent phenomena in low-dimensional systems, offering a basis for future spintronics applications.

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Symmetry-adapted models for multifold fermions with spin-orbit coupling

Multifold fermions, quasiparticles with multiple degeneracy protected by crystalline symmetries, exhibit a variety of intriguing phenomena stemming from their large topological charges and unique band structures. A comprehensive understanding of their response to external stimuli remains challenging, especially for types protected by nonsymmorphic symmetries where various degrees of freedom are intricately coupled. Here, we systematically construct effective models for multifold fermions that incorporate external fields based on crystalline symmetry. Specifically, we develop a $\boldsymbol{k} \cdot \boldsymbol{p}$ model for the threefold fermion protected by space group I2$_1$3 (No.~199) in the presence of spin--orbit coupling, and derive the terms for external fields. By complementing this with a tight-binding model, we investigate the magnetic field response and reveal the pair annihilation of magnetic monopoles. Furthermore, we construct a $\boldsymbol{k} \cdot \boldsymbol{p}$ model for the eightfold fermion in space group P$\bar{4}3n1'$ (No.~218), including its coupling to external fields. This work provides a robust theoretical foundation for advancing the study of external field responses and transport phenomena in multifold fermions, opening new avenues to explore their rich physics.

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Magnon-mediated superconductivity on ferromagnetic wallpaper fermions

We study two-dimensional superconductivity mediated by magnetic fluctuations at the interface between a ferromagnetic insulator and the nonsymmorphic topological crystalline insulator with a fourfold-degenerate Dirac point, wallpaper fermion. We demonstrate that BCS pairing with zero center-of-mass momentum induces chiral $p$-wave superconductivity, and the Amperean pairing with center-of-mass momentum $2k_{\rm F}$ can give rise to a parity-mixed superconducting state. We find that the Amperean pairing exhibits a mixture of $s$-wave and $p$-wave components due to the multiband nature of the wallpaper fermion and the easy-axis anisotropy of the ferromagnetic insulator. Additionally, we find that the stability of the superconducting state with BCS and the Amperean pairing is governed by the easy-axis anisotropy.

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Band Curvature Effects on Quantum Transport of Spin-1 Chiral Fermion Systems

We theoretically investigate the quantum transport properties of three-dimensional spin-1 chiral fermion systems with a curved trivial band. In the multiband system with two distinct characters--a linear Dirac band and a quadratic trivial band--the hybridization induced by impurity effects leads to pronounced energy and temperature dependences in the electrical conductivity. We show that the conductivity is suppressed by the trivial band in the low-energy regime near the threefold degenerate point and enhanced in the band-crossing point of the Dirac and trivial bands. These results are derived using the self-consistent Born approximation within the framework of linear response theory.

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Directional propagation of quantum Hall viscous fluid by nano-structural engineering

We present a microscopic theory of the viscous electron fluid in the quantum Hall state based on the nonequilibrium Green's function method and the von Neumann lattice representation. This approach permits the formulation of hydrodynamic equations in the strong field regime that accommodates arbitrary boundary conditions. We demonstrate nonreciprocal transport resulting from the interplay between magnetic field-induced viscosity and device geometry in a notched system. Our results will offer a powerful tool for studying the nonperturbative effects of magnetic fields on electron viscous fluids.

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