Dirac Magnons and Topological Energy Gaps in Honeycomb Magnets

Abstract

Fermionic Dirac particles have long been known to exist in electronic materials exhibiting linear dispersion relations within energy-momentum spectra, such as two-dimensional graphene. Recently, a bosonic version of Dirac particles was predicted to appear in the magnon excitation structures of honeycomb magnets. In this article, we review theoretical predictions of topological Dirac magnons in honeycomb ferromagnets, and their experimental observations using inelastic neutron scattering in Cr-based van der Waals materials.