Kavli Affiliate: Shenghan Jiang | Summary:How do we detect topological phases from a single ground state? Entanglement entropy and spectrum have long been the standard tools — but the reduced density matrix (RDM) itself contains far more information. We show that the RDM of a 2D topologically ordered system, expressed at the entanglement cut, realizes […]

Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary:Twisted carbon nanotubes support phonons involving not only torsion, naturally associated with microrotation, but also radial breathing, which requires a scalar stretch degree of freedom. We derive an effective microstretch theory for these modes starting from nonlinear elasticity on a cylindrical surface. By linearizing the equation of motion around a […]

Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary: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 […]

Kavli Affiliate: Biao Huang | Summary:Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) has presented great potential in functional imaging, benefiting from its ability to reconstruct deep microvasculature. However, the hemodynamic reconstruction is compromised by sparsity in the ULM data, as a limited number of MB tracks cannot sample the complete speed profile in one vessel. Here, we propose […]

Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary:We propose spin-current microfluidic actuation of a sealed liquid metal. Spin angular momentum injected from Pt contacts enters the liquid as an Einstein-de Haas torque and is converted through micropolar angular-momentum balance into viscous flow without pressure drive, moving walls, magnetic fields, Lorentz forces, or charge flow through the liquid. […]

Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary:We discuss anomalous spin polarization on the surface of nuclear pasta in a neutron star, driven by a nuclear spin-orbit interaction. We present an effective two-band model of surface-localized neutrons near the nuclear pasta. The central point is the emergence of a Rashba-type spin-orbit hybridization generated by the neutron–nucleus spin-orbit […]

Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary: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 […]

Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary:Compensated ferrimagnets enable ferromagnet-like spin transport without net magnetization. We study the spin Seebeck effect in a compensated ferrimagnet/normal-metal junction using a four-sublattice model in which sublattice inequivalence arises from differences in exchange couplings, in contrast to the previously studied anisotropy-based mechanism. Within the nonequilibrium Green’s function framework, we show […]