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Publications (53)

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Bichromatic Moiré Superlattices for Tunable Quadrupolar Trions and Correlated States

Mingfeng Chen, Runtong Li, Haonan Wang +11

Moiré superlattices in transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures provide a platform to engineer many-body interactions. Here, we realize a bichromatic moiré superlattice i…

cond-mat.str-el2017

Charge ordering and ferrimagnetism in the strongly correlated -VPO single crystal

Jie Xing, Huibo Cao, Arpita Paul +8

A combined study of transport, thermodynamic, neutron diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance measurements and first principles calculation were performed for -VPO sing…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Optical Control of Integer and Fractional Chern Insulators

William Holtzmann, Weijie Li, Eric Anderson +9

Optical control of topology, particularly in the presence of electron correlations, is a fascinating topic with broad scientific and technological impact. Twisted MoTe bilayer…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Visualizing Field-free Deterministic Magnetic Switching of all-van der Waals Spin-Orbit Torque System Using Spin Ensembles in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Xi Zhang, Jingcheng Zhou, Chaowei Hu +19

Recently, optically active spin defects embedded in van der Waals (vdW) crystals have emerged as a transformative quantum sensing platform to explore cutting-edge materials science…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Quantum Imaging of Magnetic Phase Transitions and Spin Fluctuations in Intrinsic Magnetic Topological Nanoflakes

Nathan J. McLaughlin, Chaowei Hu, Mengqi Huang +6

Topological materials featuring exotic band structures, unconventional current flow patterns, and emergent organizing principles offer attractive platforms for the development of n…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

A van der Waals antiferromagnetic topological insulator with weak interlayer magnetic coupling

Chaowei Hu, Xiaoqing Zhou, Pengfei Liu +11

Magnetic topological insulators (TI) provide an important material platform to explore quantum phenomena such as quantized anomalous Hall (QAH) effect and Majorana modes, etc. Thei…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Multiple closely spaced transitions and multi-band Hall response in clean ScVSn

Jonathan M. DeStefano, Elliott Rosenberg, Chaowei Hu +2

The kagome metal ScVSn has attracted attention as a platform for exploring the interplay between charge density wave (CDW) order and symmetry-breaking phenomena, including…

cond-mat.str-el2024

An antiferromagnetic diode effect in even-layered MnBi2Te4

Anyuan Gao, Shao-Wen Chen, Barun Ghosh +26

In a PN junction, the separation between positive and negative charges leads to diode transport. In the past few years, the intrinsic diode transport in noncentrosymmetric polar co…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Purcell enhancement of photogalvanic currents in a van der Waals plasmonic self-cavity

Xinyu Li, Jesse Hagelstein, Gunda Kipp +23

Cavities provide a means to manipulate the optical and electronic responses of quantum materials by selectively enhancing light-matter interaction at specific frequencies and momen…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Visualizing the microscopic origins of topology in twisted molybdenum ditelluride

Ellis Thompson, Keng Tou Chu, Florie Mesple +14

In moiré materials with flat electronic bands and suitable quantum geometry, strong correlations can give rise to novel topological states of matter. The nontrivial band topology…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Observation of Fractionally Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect

Heonjoon Park, Jiaqi Cai, Eric Anderson +17

The integer quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a lattice analog of the quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field. This striking transport phenomenon occurs in electronic syste…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Record magnetoresistance, enhanced superconductivity, and fermiology in WTe2

Gianluca Delgado, Elliott Runburg, Chaowei Hu +12

The diverse electronic properties of transition metal chalcogenides can be very sensitive to crystal imperfections. A new crystal growth technique, known as horizontal flux transpo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Nonperturbative Nonlinear Transport in a Floquet-Weyl Semimetal

Matthew W. Day, Kateryna Kusyak, Felix Sturm +23

Periodic laser driving, known as Floquet engineering, is a powerful tool to manipulate the properties of quantum materials. Using circularly polarized light, artificial magnetic fi…

cond-mat.str-el2020

Crystal and magnetic structures of magnetic topological insulators MnBiTe and MnBiTe

Lei Ding, Chaowei Hu, Feng Ye +3

Using single crystal neutron diffraction, we present a systematic investigation of the crystal structure and magnetism of van der Waals topological insulators MnBiTe and Mn…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Unconventional pressure-driven metamagnetic transitions in topological van der Waals magnets

Tiema Qian, Eve Emmanouilidou, Chaowei Hu +3

Activating metamagnetic transitions between ordered states in van der Waals magnets and devices bring great opportunities in spintronics. We show that external pressure, which enha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Magnetic dilution effect and topological phase transitions in (MnPb)BiTe

Tiema Qian, Yueh-Ting Yao, Chaowei Hu +5

As the first intrinsic antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulator (TI), MnBiTe has provided a material platform to realize various emergent phenomena arising from the in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Single crystal growth, chemical defects, magnetic and transport properties of antiferromagnetic topological insulators (GeMn)BiTe (, )

Tiema Qian, Chaowei Hu, Jazmine C. Green +3

Magnetic topological insulators provide a platform for emergent phenomena arising from the interplay between magnetism and band topology. Here we report the single crystal growth,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Gapless surface Dirac cone in antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBiTe

Yu-Jie Hao, Pengfei Liu, Yue Feng +18

The recent discovered antiferromagnetic topological insulators in Mn-Bi-Te family with intrinsic magnetic ordering have rapidly drawn broad interest since its cleaved surface state…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Ferromagnetism and Topology of the Higher Flat Band in a Fractional Chern Insulator

Heonjoon Park, Jiaqi Cai, Eric Anderson +18

The recent observation of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in moiré fractional Chern insulators provides an opportunity to investigate zero magnetic field anyons. To p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Axion optical induction of antiferromagnetic order

Jian-Xiang Qiu, Christian Tzschaschel, Junyeong Ahn +25

Using circularly-polarized light to control quantum matter is a highly intriguing topic in physics, chemistry and biology. Previous studies have demonstrated helicity-dependent opt…

cond-mat.str-el2020

A Néel-type antiferromagnetic order in the spin 1/2 rare-earth honeycomb YbCl

Jie Xing, Erxi Feng, Yaohua Liu +8

Most of the searches for Kitaev materials deal with magnets with spin-orbit-coupled local moments such as iridates and -RuCl. Here we propose the monoclin…

cond-mat.str-el2019

Strongly Gapped Topological Surface States on Protected Surfaces of Antiferromagnetic MnBiTe and MnBiTe

Kyle N. Gordon, Hongyi Sun, Chaowei Hu +8

The search for materials to support the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect (QAHE) have recently centered on intrinsic magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) including MnBiTe or…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Dichotomy of flat bands in the van der Waals ferromagnet FeGeTe

Han Wu, Jianwei Huang, Chaowei Hu +28

Quantum materials with bands of narrow bandwidth near the Fermi level represent a promising platform for exploring a diverse range of fascinating physical phenomena, as the high de…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Growth, characterization and Chern insulator state in MnBiTe via the chemical vapor transport method

Chaowei Hu, Anyuan Gao, Bryan Stephen Berggren +7

As the first intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator, MnBiTe has provided a platform to investigate the interplay of band topology and magnetism as well as the em…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Magnetic order induces symmetry breaking in the single crystalline orthorhombic CuMnAs semimetal

Eve Emmanouilidou, Huibo Cao, Peizhe Tang +7

Recently, orthorhombic CuMnAs has been proposed to be a magnetic material where topological fermions exist around the Fermi level. Here we report the magnetic structure of the orth…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Notes on remanent magnetization measurements in superconductors and hard ferromagnets

Sergey L. Bud'ko, Mingyu Xu, Weiwei Xie +3

Data on zero applied field measurements of remanent magnetization and magnetic relaxation in a BCS superconductor LuNi2B2C and several hard ferromagnets are presented and compared.…

cond-mat.supr-con2021

Revealing the competition between charge-density wave and superconductivity in CsVSb through uniaxial strain

Tiema Qian, Morten H. Christensen, Chaowei Hu +5

In this paper we report the impact of uniaxial strain applied along the crystalline axis on the newly discovered kagome superconductor CsVSb. At ambient c…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Ferroaxial and nematic transitions in the charge density wave phase of 1T-TiSe

Sarah Edwards, Elliott Rosenberg, Ilaria Maccari +9

Charge density waves (CDWs) with multi-component order parameters can break unexpected symmetries through the interplay of nearly degenerate instabilities. In the widely investigat…

cond-mat.str-el2023

Spectral Evidence for Local-Moment Ferromagnetism in van der Waals Metals FeGaTe and FeGeTe

Han Wu, Chaowei Hu, Yaofeng Xie +26

Magnetism in two-dimensional (2D) materials has attracted considerable attention recently for both fundamental understanding of magnetism and their tunability towards device applic…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Absence of nematic instability and dominant response in the kagome metal CsVSb

Zhaoyu Liu, Yue Shi, Qianni Jiang +12

Ever since the discovery of the charge density wave (CDW) transition in the kagome metal CsVSb, the nature of its symmetry breaking is under intense debate. While evidence…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Layer Hall effect in a 2D topological Axion antiferromagnet

Anyuan Gao, Yu-Fei Liu, Chaowei Hu +33

While ferromagnets have been known and exploited for millennia, antiferromagnets (AFMs) were only discovered in the 1930s. The elusive nature indicates AFMs' unique properties: At…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Universal Magnetic Phases in Twisted Bilayer MoTe

Weijie Li, Evgeny Redekop, Christiano Wang Beach +15

Twisted bilayer MoTe (tMoTe) has emerged as a robust platform for exploring correlated topological phases, notably supporting fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states at zer…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Unusual dynamic susceptibility arising from soft ferromagnetic domains in MnBi8Te13 and Sb-doped MnBi2nTe3n+1 (n=2, 3)

Chaowei Hu, Makariy A. Tanatar, Ruslan Prozorov +1

MnBi2nTe3n+1(MBT) is the first intrinsic magnetic topological insulator and is promising to hostemergent phenomena such as quantum anomalous Hall effect. They can be made ferromagn…

cond-mat.other2019

Superfluid Onset and Compressibility of He Films Adsorbed on Carbon Nanotubes

Emin Menachekanian, Vito Iaia, Mingyu Fan +7

Third sound measurements of superfluid He thin films adsorbed on 10 nm diameter multiwall carbon nanotubes are used to probe the superfluid onset temperature as a function of t…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Fragile 3D Order in VMoO

Matthew A. Davenport, Matthew J. Krogstad, Logan M. Whitt +6

The metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) in rutile VO has proven uniquely difficult to characterize because of the complex interplay between electron correlations and atomic str…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Quantum metric nonlinear Hall effect in a topological antiferromagnetic heterostructure

Anyuan Gao, Yu-Fei Liu, Jian-Xiang Qiu +28

Quantum geometry - the geometry of electron Bloch wavefunctions - is central to modern condensed matter physics. Due to the quantum nature, quantum geometry has two parts, the real…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Observation of High-Temperature Dissipationless Fractional Chern Insulator

Heonjoon Park, Weijie Li, Chaowei Hu +13

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect has recently been experimentally observed in zero-field fractional Chern insulators (FCI). However, an outstanding challenge is the pre…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Engineering robust strain transmission in van der Waals heterostructure devices

John Cenker, Jordan Fonseca, Mai Nguyen +8

Atomically thin van der Waals materials provide a highly tunable platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena in solid state systems. Due to their remarkable mechanical streng…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Absence of Weyl nodes in EuCdAs revealed by the carrier density dependence of the anomalous Hall effect

Yue Shi, Zhaoyu Liu, Logan A. Burnett +8

The antiferromagnetic layered compound EuCdAs is widely considered as a leading candidate of ideal Weyl semimetal, featuring a single pair of Weyl nodes in its field-induce…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Electrically Programmable Correlated Topology and Magnetism in a Moiré Trilayer

Christiano Wang Beach, Courtney Baier, Kaijie Yang +15

Strong electron-electron interactions underlie a wide range of quantum many-body phenomena, including magnetism, superconductivity, and charge fractionalization. A central goal is…

cond-mat.str-el2023

Reversible Non-Volatile Electronic Switching in a Near Room Temperature van der Waals Ferromagnet

Han Wu, Lei Chen, Paul Malinowski +37

The ability to reversibly toggle between two distinct states in a non-volatile method is important for information storage applications. Such devices have been realized for phase-c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Pressure tuning of structural and magnetic transitions in EuAgAs

Sergey L. Bud'ko, Li Xiang, Chaowei Hu +3

We report temperature dependent measurements of ambient pressure specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, anisotropic resistivity and thermal expansion as well as in-plane resistivi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Fermiology and transport properties of the proposed topological crystalline insulator SrAg4Sb2

J Green, Eve Emmanouilidou, Harry W. T. Morgan +5

Compared to time-reversal symmetry-protected Z2 topological insulators and Dirac/Weyl semimetals, there are significantly fewer candidates for topological crystalline insulators. S…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Comprehensive Anisotropic Linear Optical Properties of Weyl Semimetals, TaAs and NbAs

Rui Zu, Mingqiang Gu, Lujin Min +5

TaAs and NbAs are two of the earliest identified Weyl semimetals that possess many intriguing optical properties, such as chirality-dependent optical excitations and giant second h…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Local probe of bulk and edge states in a fractional Chern insulator

Zhurun Ji, Heonjoon Park, Mark E. Barber +6

Fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a prime example of topological quantum many-body phenomena, arising from the interplay between strong electron correlation, topological ord…

cond-mat.str-el2020

Structural distortion and incommensurate noncollinear magnetism in EuAg4As2

Bing Shen, Chaowei Hu, Huibo Cao +4

Layered pnictide materials have provided a fruitful platform to study various emergent phenomena, including superconductivity, magnetism, charge density waves, etc. Here we report…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Magnetic Signatures of a Putative Fractional Topological Insulator in Twisted MoTe2

Yiping Wang, Gillian E. Minarik, Weijie Li +15

The interplay among electronic correlation, topology, and time-reversal-symmetry (TRS) often leads to exotic quantum states of matter, as highlighted by the discoveries of fraction…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Quantum Oscillations Measurement of the Heavy Electron Mass near the van Hove Singularity in a Kagome Metal

Elliott Rosenberg, Jonathan DeStefano, Yongbin Lee +6

Kagome metals with the Fermi energy tuned near the van Hove singularities (vHss) have shown to host exotic phases including unconventional superconductivity and a chiral flux phase…

cond-mat.str-el2021

Neutron diffraction study of magnetism in van der Waals layered MnBiTe

Lei Ding, Chaowei Hu, Erxi Feng +6

Two-dimensional van der Waals MnBiTe (n = 1, 2, 3, 4) compounds have been recently found to be intrinsic magnetic topological insulators rendering quantum anomalous…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Interaction-driven flat band and charge order in Fe5GeTe2

Qiang Gao, Gabriele Berruto, Khanh Duy Nguyen +9

Flat electronic bands enable fascinating emergent phenomena such as superconductivity and charge orders. A prevailing approach to realizing flat bands is to engineer lattice geomet…

cond-mat.str-el2021

Realization of an intrinsic, ferromagnetic topological state in MnBi8Te13

Chaowei Hu, Lei Ding, Kyle N. Gordon +18

The interplay between topology and magnetism is essential for realizing novel topological states including the axion insulator, the magnetic Weyl semimetal, etc. An intrinsically f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Phonon modes and Raman signatures of MnBi2nTe3n+1 (n=1,2,3,4) magnetic topological heterostructures

Yujin Cho, Jin Ho Kang, Liangbo Liang +8

An intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator can be realized by intercalating Mn-Te bilayer chain in a topological insulator, . $\m…

cond-mat.str-el2021

Tuning the magnetism and band topology through antisite defects in Sb doped MnBi4Te7

Chaowei Hu, Shang-Wei Lien, Erxi Feng +6

The fine control of magnetism and electronic structure is crucial since the interplay between magnetism and band topology can lead to various novel magnetic topological states incl…