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Publications (20)

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Optical control of conductivity type and valley polarization via persistent photoconductivity in (Pb,Sn)Se quantum wells

Alexander Kazakov, Gauthier Krizman, Valentine V. Volobuev +8

The ability to tune the Fermi level of semiconductors is at the heart of modern electronics. Here, we demonstrate that persistent photoconductivity (PPC) enables tuning of carrier…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Step-edge assisted large scale FeSe monolayer growth on epitaxial Bi2Se3 thin films

Jan Fikáček, Vitalii Stetsovych, Martin Vondráček +10

The interest in Fe-chalcogenide unconventional superconductors is intense after the critical temperature of FeSe was reported enhanced by more than one order of magnitude in the mo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Field-induced ultrafast modulation of Rashba coupling at room temperature in ferroelectric -GeTe(111)

Geoffroy Kremer, Julian Maklar, Laurent Nicolaï +11

Rashba materials have appeared as an ideal playground for spin-to-charge conversion in prototype spintronics devices. Among them, -GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Entropy controlled fully reversible nanostructure formation of Ge on miscut vicinal Si (001) surfaces

Christian Grossauer, Vaclv Holy, Gunther Springholz

Entropy effects substantially modify the growth of self-assembled Ge nanostructures on vicinal Si (001) surfaces. As shown by variable temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Probing Berry curvature in magnetic topological insulators through resonant infrared magnetic circular dichroism

Seul-Ki Bac, Florian le Mardelé, Jiashu Wang +16

Probing the quantum geometry and topology in condensed matter systems has relied heavily on static electronic transport experiments in magnetic fields. Yet, contact-free optical me…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Persistence of structural distortion and bulk band Rashba splitting in SnTe above its ferroelectric critical temperature

Frédéric Chassot, Aki Pulkkinen, Geoffroy Kremer +8

The ferroelectric semiconductor -SnTe has been regarded as a topological crystalline insulator and the dispersion of its surface states has been intensively measured with angle…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Ultrafast dynamics of optically excited charge carriers in the room-temperature antiferromagnetic semiconductor -MnTe

Changqing Zhu, Patrick Pilch, Anneke Reinold +6

We report on time-resolved optical and terahertz ultrafast spectroscopy of charge-carrier dynamics in the room-temperature antiferromagnetic semiconductor -MnTe. By optically p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Anomalous Spectroscopical Effects in an Antiferromagnetic Semiconductor

Michal Hubert, Tomáš Maleček, Kyo-Hoon Ahn +6

Following the recent observation of anomalous Hall effect in antiferromagnetic hexagonal MnTe thin films, related phenomena at finite frequencies have come into focus. Magnetic cir…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Conduction Band Structure and Ultrafast Dynamics of Ferroelectric -GeTe(111)

Geoffroy Kremer, Laurent Nicolaï, Frédéric Chassot +9

-GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelectric (FE) material for which a significative lattice distortion combined with a strong spin-orbit interaction gives rise to giant R…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Probing the magnetic band gap of the ferromagnetic topological insulator MnSbTe

Philipp Küppers, Jannik Zenner, Stefan Wimmer +4

Mn-rich MnSbTe is a ferromagnetic topological insulator with yet the highest Curie temperature T_C = 45-50 K. It exhibits a magnetic gap at the Dirac point of the topologic…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Magnetooptical determination of a topological index

Badih A. Assaf, Thanyanan Phuphachong, Valentine V. Volobuev +4

When a Dirac fermion system acquires an energy-gap, it is said to have either trivial (positive energy-gap) or non-trivial (negative energy-gap) topology, depending on the parity o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Triple point fermions in ferroelectric GeTe

Juraj Krempaský, Laurent Nicolaï, Martin Gmitra +10

Ferroelectric GeTe is unveiled to exhibit an intriguing multiple non-trivial topology of the electronic band structure due to the existence of triple-point and type-II Weyl fermion…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Signatures of dephasing by mirror-symmetry breaking in weak-antilocalization magnetoresistance across the topological transition in PbSnSe

Alexander Kazakov, Wojciech Brzezicki, Timo Hyart +12

Many conductors, including recently studied Dirac materials, show saturation of coherence length on decreasing temperature. This surprising phenomenon is assigned to external noise…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

A Novel Ferroelectric Rashba Semiconductor

Gauthier Krizman, Tetiana Zakusylo, Lakshmi Sajeev +8

Fast, reversible, and low-power manipulation of the spin texture is crucial for next generation spintronic devices like non-volatile bipolar memories, switchable spin current injec…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Detection of Image Potential States above the vacuum level in GeTe

Frédéric Chassot, Aki Pulkkinen, Ján Minár +3

The ferroelectric semiconductor α-GeTe(111) has attracted significant attention in the last decade due to its unique properties, with extensive studies focusing on its occupied el…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Magnetically tunable symmetry-enforced nodal lines producing huge anomalous Hall conductivity in altermagnetic -MnTe

Mathews Benny, Xujia Gong, Amar Fakhredine +15

Altermagnetic -MnTe exhibits huge anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) up to room-temperature together with weak ferromagnetism arising from spin and orbital polarizations. We cla…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Anisotropic magnetoresistance in altermagnetic MnTe

Ruben Dario Gonzalez Betancourt, Jan Zubáč, Kevin Geishendorf +12

Recently, MnTe was established as an altermagnetic material that hosts spin-polarized electronic bands as well as anomalous transport effects like the anomalous Hall effect. In add…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Collective topological spin dynamics in a correlated spin glass

Juraj Krempaský, Gunther Springholz, Sunil Wilfred D'Souza +12

The interplay between spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and magnetic order is currently one of the most active research fields in condensed matter physics and leading the search for mat…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Topological phase diagram and quantum magnetotransport effects in (Pb,Sn)Se quantum wells with magnetic barriers (Pb,Eu)Se

Alexander Kazakov, Valentine V. Volobuev, Chang-Woo Cho +6

In this study, we report here on a successful growth by molecular beam epitaxy of high crystalline quality PbSnSe:Bi/PbEuSe QWs with and $y =…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Interaction between interface and massive states in multivalley topological heterostructures

Gauthier Krizman, Badih A. Assaf, Milan Orlita +5

Topological interface states in multivalley systems are studied to unravel their valley sensitivity. For this purpose, multivalley IV-VI topological crystalline insulator (TCI) het…