English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Symmetry governs many electronic and photonic phenomena in optics andcondensed matter physics. Skyrmions and merons are prominent topologicalstructures in magnetic materials, with the topological features determined bythe interplay between anisotropy of a material and its magnetization. Here wetheoretically show and experimentally demonstrate that the symmetry of theelectromagnetic field determines the spin topological properties of the guidedmodes via spin-orbit coupling and may only result in either hexagonalspin-skyrmion or square spin-meron lattices. We also show that in the absenceof spin-orbit coupling these spin topologies are degenerated in dynamicfield-skyrmions, unifying description of electromagnetic field topologies. Theresults provide new understanding of electromagnetic field topology and itstransformations as well as new opportunities for applications in quantumoptics, spin-optics and topological photonics.

Photonic spin lattices: symmetry constraints for skyrmion and meron topologies