My name is Sopheak Sorn from Cambodia. I am a theoretical condensed matter postdoc at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
My recent research focuses on multipole phenomena in topological spin textures and multipole-ordered states such as altermagnets and hidden orders. Topics of my interest include:
Multipole conservations in magnetic solitons such as skyrmions and hopfions
Transports and response properties
Topological properties.
2021 - Present : Postdoc at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. PI: Markus Garst
2016 - 2021 : PhD, theoretical condensed matter physics, University of Toronto, Canada.
Supervisor: Arun Paramekanti.
Thesis: "Topology and Magnetism in Quantum Materials."; available on the university's website.
2015 - 2016 : MSc in Physics, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics & University of Waterloo, Canada.
Supervisor: Yong-Baek Kim.
Thesis: "Projective Symmetry Analysis of Spin Liquid Phases in Anisotropic Kagome Volborthites"
2011 - 2015 : BSc in Physics and Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
29.01.2026: a joint overview article on skyrmionics research is available on arXiv: "The 2026 Skyrmionics Roadmap".
05.11.2025: our paper on "activation of anomalous Hall effect and orbital magnetization by domain walls in altermagnets" is accepted for a publication in Phys. Rev. B.
30.10.2025: our paper on "topological dipoles of quantum skyrmions" is accepted for a publication in Phys. Rev. X.
23.05.2025: our manuscript on "activation of anomalous Hall effect and orbital magnetization by domain walls in altermagnets" is now available on arXiv.
31.03.2025: our manuscript on "Anti-chiral surface states in rutile altermagnets" is accepted for a publication as a Letter in Phys. Rev. B.
[12] Sopheak Sorn, Yuriy Mokrousov,
"Activation of anomalous Hall effect and orbital magnetization by domain walls in altermagnets"
Phys. Rev. B 112, 245115 (2025)
[11] Sopheak Sorn, Joerg Schmalian, Markus Garst,
"Topological dipole of quantum skyrmions"
Phys. Rev. X 15, 041037 (2025)
[10] Sopheak Sorn,
"Antichiral surface states and Su Schrieffer Heeger physics in rutile altermagnets",
Phys. Rev. B 111, L161109 (2025)
[9] Sopheak Sorn, Adarsh S. Patri,
Editors' Suggestion "Signature of hidden octupolar orders from nonlinear Hall effects",
Phys. Rev. B 110, 125127 (2024)
[8] M.M. Piva, J.C. Souza, V. Brousseau-Courure, Sopheak Sorn, et al,
"Topological features in the ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal CeAlSi: Role of domain walls ",
Phys. Rev. Research 5, 013068 (2023)
[7] Sopheak Sorn, Luyi Yang, Arun Paramekanti,
"Resonant optical topological Hall conductivity from skyrmions",
Phys. Rev. B 104, 134419 (2021)
[6] Finn L. Buessen, Sopheak Sorn, Ivar Martin, Arun Paramekanti,
"Nematic order driven by superconducting correlations"
Annals of Physics, 435, 168494 (2021)
[5] Sopheak Sorn, Arun Paramekanti
"Domain wall skew scattering in ferromagnetic Weyl metals"
Phys. Rev. B 103, 104413 (2021)
[4] F. Michael Bartram, Sopheak Sorn, et al
"Anomalous Kerr effect in SrRuO3 thin films"
Phys. Rev. B 102, 140408 (R) (2020)
[3] Sopheak Sorn, Stefan Divic, Arun Paramekanti
"Tunable skyrmion crystals and topological quantum oscillations in magnetic metals"
Phys. Rev. B 100, 174411 (2019)
[2] Sopheak Sorn
"Bilayer Haldane model: from trivial band insulator to fractionalized quantum anomalous Hall insulator"
Phys. Rev. B 98, 125145 (2018)
[1] Li Ern Chern, Robert Schaffer, Sopheak Sorn, Yong Baek Kim
"Fermionic spin liquid analysis of the paramagnetic state in volborthite"