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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 8 cited

Electric and magnetic fields tuned spin-polarized topological phases in two-dimensional ferromagnetic MnBiTe

Shi Xiao, Xiaoliang Xiao, Fangyang Zhan +3

Applying electric or magnetic fields is widely used to not only create and manipulate topological states but also facilitate their observations in experiments. In this work, we sho…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 42 cited

DyOCl: a rare-earth based two-dimensional van der Waals material with strong magnetic anisotropy

Congkuan Tian, Feihao Pan, Dehua Ye +17

Comparing with the widely known transitional metal based van der Waals (vdW) materials, rare-earth based ones are rarely explored in the research of intrinsic two-dimensional (2D)…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 5 cited

Magnetically tunable Shubnikov-de Hass oscillations in MnBi2Te4

X. Lei, L. Zhou, Z. Y. Hao +9

Shubnikov-de Hass oscillations are directly observed in undoped antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4. With increasing magnetic fields, the oscillation period decreases…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 13 cited

Pressure-Driven Magneto-Topological Phase Transition in a magnetic Weyl semimetal

Qingqi Zeng, Hongyi Sun, Jianlei Shen +9

The co-occurrence of phase transitions with local and global order parameters, such as the entangled magnetization and topological invariant, is attractive but has been seldom real…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 31 cited

Interlayer Quasi-Bonding Interactions in 2D Layered Materials: A Classification According to the Occupancy of Involved Energy Bands

Yuan-Tao Chen, Peng-Lai Gong, Yin-Ti Ren +5

Recent studies have revealed that the interlayer interaction in two-dimensional (2D) layered materials is not simply of van der Waals character but could coexist with quasi-bonding…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 28 cited

Room-temperature ferromagnetism at an oxide/nitride interface

Qiao Jin, Zhiwen Wang, Qinghua Zhang +26

Heterointerfaces have led to the discovery of novel electronic and magnetic states because of their strongly entangled electronic degrees of freedom. Single-phase chromium compound…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 18 cited

Anisotropic electronic phase transition in CrN epitaxial thin films

Qiao Jin, Jiali Zhao, Manuel Roldan +12

Electronic phase transition in strongly correlated materials is extremely sensitive to the dimensionality and crystallographic orientations. Transition metal nitrides (TMNs) are se…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 3 cited

Honeycomb lattice in metal-rich chalcogenide Fe2Te

Jia-Qi Guan, Li Wang, Pengdong Wang +7

Two-dimensional honeycomb crystals have inspired intense research interest for their novel properties and great potential in electronics and optoelectronics. Here, through molecula…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 6 cited

Crossover behavior in the magnetoresistance of thin flakes of the topological material ZrTe5

Zhijian Xie, Xinjian Wei, Xiaobin Qiang +9

ZrTe5 is a layered material that exhibits intricate topological effects. Intensive theoretically and experimental efforts have been devoted to try to understand the physics in this…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 19 cited

Thermal Conductivity of BAs under Pressure

Songrui Hou, Bo Sun, Fei Tian +7

The thermal conductivity of boron arsenide (BAs) is believed to be influenced by phonon scattering selection rules due to its special phonon dispersion. Compression of BAs leads to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 79 cited

Spatial symmetry constraint of charge-ordered kagome superconductor CsVSb

Haoxiang Li, Yu-Xiao Jiang, J. X. Yin +15

Elucidating the symmetry of intertwined orders in exotic superconductors is at the quantum frontier. Recent surface sensitive studies of the topological kagome superconductor CsV$_…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 4 cited

Reversible modulation of metal-insulator transition in VO2 via chemically-induced oxygen migration

Kun Han, Hanyu Wang, Liang Wu +6

Metal-insulator transitions (MIT),an intriguing correlated phenomenon induced by the subtle competition of the electrons' repulsive Coulomb interaction and kinetic energy, is of gr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 7 cited

Intermediate anomalous Hall states induced by noncollinear spin structure in magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4

Jing-Zhi Fang, Shuo Wang, Xing-Guo Ye +12

The combination of topology and magnetism is attractive to produce exotic quantum matters, such as the quantum anomalous Hall state, axion insulators and the magnetic Weyl semimeta…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 148 cited

Measuring phonon dispersion at an interface

Ruishi Qi, Ruochen Shi, Yuanwei Sun +9

The breakdown of translational symmetry at heterointerfaces leads to the emergence of new phonon modes localized near the interface. These interface phonons play an essential role…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 337 cited

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.mtrl-sci2021★ 51 cited

Prediction of protected band edge states and dielectric tunable quasiparticle and excitonic properties of monolayer MoSiN

Yabei Wu, Zhao Tang, Weiyi Xia +6

The electronic structure of two-dimensional (2D) materials are inherently prone to environmental perturbations, which may pose significant challenges to their applications in elect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 25 cited

Chiral Dirac-like fermion in spin-orbit-free antiferromagnetic semimetals

Pengfei Liu, Ao Zhang, Jingzhi Han +1

Dirac semimetal is a phase of matter, whose elementary excitation is described by the relativistic Dirac equation. In the limit of zero mass, its parity-time symmetry enforces the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 36 cited

Solid-state Janus nanoprecipitation enables amorphous-like heat conduction in crystalline Mg3Sb2-based thermoelectric materials

Rui Shu, Zhijia Han, Anna Elsukova +12

Solid-state precipitation can be used to tailor materials properties, ranging from ferromagnets and catalysts to mechanical strengthening and energy storage. Thermoelectric propert…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 72 cited

Designing light-element materials with large effective spin-orbit coupling

Jiayu Li, Qiushi Yao, Lin Wu +4

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC), the core of numerous condensed-matter phenomena such as nontrivial band gap, magnetocrystalline anisotropy, etc, is generally considered to be appreciabl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 51 cited

Bridging the gap between atomically thin semiconductors and metal leads

Xiangbin Cai, Zefei Wu, Xu Han +15

Electrically interfacing atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors (TMDSCs) with metal leads is challenging because of undesired interface barriers, which have…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 1 cited

Correlation Between Spin and Orbital Dynamics During Laser-Induced Femtosecond Demagnetization

G. P. Zhang, Mingqiang Gu, Y. H. Bai +2

Spin and orbital angular momenta are two intrinsic properties of an electron and are responsible for the physics of a solid. How the spin and orbital evolve with respect to each ot…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 19 cited

Coexistence of Ferroelectric-like Polarization and Dirac-like Surface State in TaNiTe5

Yunlong Li, Zhao Ran, Chaozhi Huang +20

By combining angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) and first-principles calculations, we have…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 49 cited

Routes to realize the axion-insulator phase in MnBiTe(BiTe) family: a perspective

Yufei Zhao, Qihang Liu

Axion, first postulated as a hypothetical particle in high-energy physics, is now extended to describe a novel topological magnetoelectric effect derived from the Chern-Simons theo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 19 cited

Phase Transition of Two-Dimensional Ferroelectric and Paraelectric Ga2O3 Monolayer: A Density Functional Theory and Machine-Learning Study

Junlei Zhao, Jesper Byggmastar, Zhaofu Zhang +3

Ga2O3 is a wide-band-gap semiconductor of great interest for applications in electronics and optoelectronics. Two-dimensional (2D) Ga2O3 synthesized from top-down or bottom-up proc…