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Publications (11)

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Non-altermagnetic spin texture in MnTe

Meng Zeng, Pengfei Liu, Ming-Yuan Zhu +19

Recently, altermagnets have emerged as promising candidates in spintronics, uniquely combining large spin-polarized electronic states with zero net magnetization. A prominent examp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Epitaxial Growth and Anomalous Hall Effect in High-Quality Altermagnetic -MnTe Thin Films

Tian-Hao Shao, Xingze Dai, Wenyu Hu +17

The recent identification of -MnTe as a candidate altermagnet has attracted considerable interest, particularly for its potential application in magnetic random-access memory.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Observation of floating surface state in obstructed atomic insulator candidate NiP

Xiang-Rui Liu, Ming-Yuan Zhu, Yuanwen Feng +15

Obstructed atomic insulator is recently proposed as an unconventional material, in which electric charge centers localized at sites away from the atoms. A half-filling surface stat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Observation of plaid-like spin splitting in a noncoplanar antiferromagnet

Yu-Peng Zhu, Xiaobing Chen, Xiang-Rui Liu +27

Spatial, momentum and energy separation of electronic spins in condensed matter systems guides the development of novel devices where spin-polarized current is generated and manipu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Observation of Spin Splitting in Room-Temperature Metallic Antiferromagnet CrSb

Meng Zeng, Ming-Yuan Zhu, Yu-Peng Zhu +18

Recently, unconventional antiferromagnets that enable the splitting of electronic spins have been theoretically proposed and experimentally realized, where the magnetic sublattices…

cond-mat.str-el2019

Hybridization-Induced Gapped and Gapless States on the Surfaces of Magnetic Topological Insulators

Xiao-Ming Ma, Zhongjia Chen, Eike F. Schwier +25

The layered MnBi2nTe3n+1 family represents the first intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator (AFM TI, protected by a combination symmetry ) ever discovered, providing an…

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.mtrl-sci2020

Spectroscopic realization of large surface gap in a doped magnetic topological insulator

Xiao-Ming Ma, Yufei Zhao, Ke Zhang +25

Realization of the quantum anomalous Hall effect and axion electrodynamics in topological materials are among the paradigmatic phenomena in condensed matter physics. Recently, sign…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Single crystal synthesis and low-lying electronic structure of VS

Yu-Jie Hao, Ming-Yuan Zhu, Xiao-Ming Ma +17

We report successful growth of millimeter-sized high quality single crystals of VS, a candidate topological semimetal belonging to a low-symmetry space group and consisting…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Hedgehog-like spin texture in Sb-doped MnBiTe

Meng Zeng, Shu Mo, Ke Zhang +13

We employ spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and circular-dichroism ARPES to systematically investigate the spin texture of Sb-doped MnBiTe. Our results di…

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…