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Publications (21)

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Evidence chain for time-reversal symmetry-breaking kagome superconductivity

Hanbin Deng, Guowei Liu, Z. Guguchia +25

Superconductivity and magnetism are antagonistic quantum matter, while their intertwining has long been considered in frustrated-lattice systems1-3. In this work, we utilize scanni…

cond-mat.supr-con2020

Role of anion in the pairing interaction of iron-based superconductivity

J. -X. Yin, Y. Y. Zhao, Zheng Wu +20

High-temperature iron-based superconductivity develops in a structure with unusual lattice-orbital geometry, based on a planar layer of Fe atoms with 3d orbitals and tetrahedrally…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Chiral kagome superconductivity modulations with residual Fermi arcs in KV3Sb5 and CsV3Sb5

Hanbin Deng, Hailang Qin, Guowei Liu +26

Superconductivity involving finite momentum pairing can lead to spatial gap and pair density modulations, as well as Bogoliubov Fermi states within the superconducting gap. However…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Perspective: imaging atomic step geometry to determine surface terminations of kagome materials and beyond

Guowei Liu, Tianyu Yang, Yu-Xiao Jiang +4

Here we review scanning tunneling microscopy research on the surface determination for various types of kagome materials, including 11-type (CoSn, FeSn, FeGe), 32-type (Fe3Sn2), 13…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Charge density wave with suppressed long-range structural modulation in canted antiferromagnetic kagome FeGe

Chenfei Shi, Wenchang Hou, Hanbin Deng +30

Kagome lattice can host abundant exotic quantum states such as superconductivity and charge density wave (CDW). Recently, successive orders of A-type antiferromagnetism (AFM), CDW…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Giant and Reversible Electronic Structure Evolution in a Magnetic Topological Material EuCd2As2

Yang Wang, Cong Li, Taimin Miao +25

The electronic structure and the physical properties of quantum materials can be significantly altered by charge carrier doping and magnetic state transition. Here we report a disc…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Phase-sensitive evidence for pair density waves in a kagome superconductor

Xiao-Yu Yan, Guowei Liu, Hanbin Deng +22

Pair density wave (PDW) exhibits periodic amplitude and sign modulations of the superconducting order parameter. Such a pairing state has long been proposed to be highly sensitive…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Imaging real-space flat band localization in kagome magnet FeSn

Daniel Multer, Jia-Xin Yin, Md. Shafayat Hossain +12

Kagome lattices host flat bands due to their frustrated lattice geometry, which leads to destructive quantum interference of electron wave functions. Here, we report imaging of the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Magnetic-coupled electronic landscape in bilayer-distorted titanium-based kagome metals

Yong Hu, Congcong Le, Long Chen +10

Quantum materials whose atoms are arranged on a lattice of corner-sharing triangles, , the kagome lattice, have recently emerged as a captivating platform for invest…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Spectroscopic signature of obstructed surface states in SrInP

Xiang-Rui Liu, Hanbin Deng, Yuntian Liu +13

The century-long development of surface sciences has witnessed the discoveries of a variety of quantum states. In the recently proposed "obstructed atomic insulators", insulators w…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

One-Step Epitaxial Access to Rhombohedral Graphene Flat-Band States on Step-Bunched SiC

Hao Zhong, Xingzhe Wang, Hanbin Deng +15

Rhombohedral graphene multilayers provide a moiré-free platform for correlated and topological flat-band physics, but direct, transfer-free epitaxial access to thickness-tunable m…

cond-mat.str-el2021

Thermal dynamics of charge density wave pinning in ZrTe3

Limin Liu, Changjiang Zhu, Z. Y. Liu +15

Impurity pinning has long been discussed to have a profound effect on the dynamics of an incommensurate charge density wave (CDW), which would otherwise slide through the lattice w…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Josephson spectroscopy study of kagome superconductors toward the deep point-contact regime

Hailang Qin, Xiao-Yu Yan, Hanbin Deng +4

Josephson scanning tunneling microscopy (JSTM) has emerged as an important technique for probing the superconducting order parameter at the atomic scale. However, the Josephson cur…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Disorder Driven Non-Anderson Transition in a Weyl Semimetal

Cong Li, Yang Wang, Jianfeng Zhang +11

For several decades, it was widely believed that a non-interacting disordered electronic system could only undergo an Anderson metal-insulator transition due to Anderson localizati…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Local excitation of kagome spin ice magnetism in HoAgGe seen by scanning tunneling microscopy

Hanbin Deng, Tianyu Yang, Guowei Liu +20

The kagome spin ice can host frustrated magnetic excitations by flipping its local spin. Under an inelastic tunneling condition, the tip in a scanning tunneling microscope can flip…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Switchable chiral 2x2 pair density wave in pure CsV3Sb5

Wei Song, Xiao-Yu Yan, Xin Yu +9

We investigate electron pairing in a super clean kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5 with a residual resistivity ratio (RRR) of 290. By using the dilution-refrigerator-based scanning tun…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Unusual Dual Flat Bands and two-dimensional Dirac-node Arc State in Kagome Metal Ni3In2S2

Bo Liang, Yichen Liu, Jie Pang +36

Kagome materials are at the frontier of condensed matter physics. An ideal kagome lattice features only one geometrically frustrated flat band spanning the entire momentum space an…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Chiral pair density waves with residual Fermi arcs in RbV3Sb5

Xiao-Yu Yan, Hanbin Deng, Tianyu Yang +8

The chiral 2 by 2 charge order has been reported and confirmed in the kagome superconductor RbV3Sb5, while its interplay with superconductivity remains elusive owing to its lowest…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Many-body electronic structure in pyrochlore superconductor CsBi2 and spin liquid Pr2Ir2O7

Wei Song, Guowei Liu, Hanbin Deng +26

The pyrochlore lattice materials can exhibit geometrical frustration, while the related many-body electronic states remain elusive. In this work, we performed scanning tunneling mi…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Atomic perspective on the topological magnetism in kagome metal Co3Sn2S2

Guowei Liu, Wei Song, Titus Neupert +3

Topological quantum materials with kagome lattices have attracted intense interest due to their unconventional electronic structures, which exhibit nontrivial topology, anomalous m…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Non-Hermitian Boundary in a Surface Selective Reconstructed Magnetic Weyl Semimetal

Cong Li, Yang Wang, Jianfeng Zhang +11

Non-Hermitian physics, studying systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, reveals unique phenomena not present in Hermitian systems. Unlike Hermitian systems, non-Hermitian…