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Publications (10)

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Relaxation and Its Effects on Electronic Structure in Twisted Systems: An Analytical Perspective

Junxi Yu, Bingbing Wang, Cheng-Cheng Liu

Lattice relaxation profoundly reshapes electronic structures in twisted materials. Prevailing treatments, however, typically rely on large-scale density functional theory (DFT), wh…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Pressure-Tunable Generalized Wigner Crystal and Fractional Chern Insulator in twisted MoTe

Bingbing Wang, Junxi Yu, Cheng-Cheng Liu

Due to the forming of low-energy flat bands, the moiré superlattices of the transition metal dichalcogenides are fascinating platforms for studying novel correlated states when su…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Twisted Magnetic Van der Waals Bilayers: An Ideal Platform for Altermagnetism

Yichen Liu, Junxi Yu, Cheng-Cheng Liu

We introduce a universal methodology for generating and manipulating altermagnetism in two-dimensional (2D) magnetic van der Waals (MvdW) materials through twisting. We find that a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

General Electronic Structure Calculation Method for Twisted Systems

Junxi Yu, Shifeng Qian, Cheng-Cheng Liu

In recent years, two-dimensional twisted systems have gained increasing attention. However, the calculation of electronic structures in twisted material has remained a challenge. T…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Quardratic Electromechanical Strain in Silicon Investigated by Scanning Probe Microscopy

Junxi Yu, Ehsan Nasr Esfahani, Qingfeng Zhu +4

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is a powerful tool widely used to characterize piezoelectricity and ferroelectricity at the nanoscale. However, it is necessary to distinguish…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Complete Hierarchy of Nonrelativistic Odd-Parity Spin Splitting in Collinear Magnets

Yichen Liu, Junxi Yu, Pu Zhang +1

Momentum-dependent nonrelativistic spin splitting provides a symmetry fingerprint of collinear magnets and can govern unconventional electronic, magnonic, and transport phenomena.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Imaging graphene moiré superlattices via scanning Kelvin probe microscopy

Junxi Yu, Rajiv Giridharagopal, Yuhao Li +5

Moiré superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures are gaining increasing attention because they offer new opportunities to tailor and explore unique electronic phenomena when…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Ferroic Domains of Alternating Polar and Nonpolar Orders Regulate Photocurrent in Single Crystalline CH3NH3PbI3 Films Self-grown on FTO/TiO2 Substrate

Boyuan Huang, Guoli Kong, Ehsan Nasr Esfahani +10

Photovoltaic conversion efficiency (PCE) of halide perovskite solar cells has risen spectacularly, yet the very crystalline structure of CH3NH3PbI3 remains ambiguous after extensiv…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

MoireStudio: A Universal Twisted Electronic Structure Calculation Package

Junxi Yu, Yichen Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu

Twistronics is an emerging and captivating field in condensed matter physics and material science. However, accurately and efficiently calculating the electronic structures of twis…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Odd-Parity Magnons

Pu Zhang, Sun-Bo Xie, Junxi Yu +2

Magnons, as charge-neutral spin excitations, can transport spin information without Joule heating and therefore offer a promising platform for low-power spintronics. However, in co…