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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 3 cited

Synthesis of functional nitride membranes using sacrificial water-soluble BaO layers

Shengru Chen, Qiao Jin, Shan Lin +8

Transition metal nitrides (TMNs) exhibit fascinating physical properties that hold great potential in future device applications. To stack two-dimensional TMNs with other functiona…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 76 cited

Complex Polymorphs Explored by Accurate and General-Purpose Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials

Junlei Zhao, Jesper Byggmästar, Huan He +3

is a wide-bandgap semiconductor of emergent importance for applications in electronics and optoelectronics. However, vital information of the proper…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 7 cited

Anomalous magneto-thermoelectric behavior in massive Dirac materials

Yanan Li, Huichao Wang, Jingyue Wang +15

Extensive studies of electron transport in Dirac materials have shown positive magneto-resistance (MR) and positive magneto-thermopower (MTP) in a magnetic field perpendicular to t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 3 cited

Stacking up electron-rich and electron-deficient monolayers to achieve extraordinary mid- to far-infrared excitonic absorption: Interlayer excitons in the C3B/C3N bilayer

Zhao Tang, Greis J. Cruz, Fanhao Jia +3

Our ability to efficiently detect and generate far-infrared (i.e., terahertz) radiation is vital in areas spanning from biomedical imaging to interstellar spectroscopy. Despite dec…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 50 cited

Long-distance propagation of high-velocity antiferromagnetic spin waves

Hanchen Wang, Rundong Yuan, Yongjian Zhou +8

We report on coherent propagation of antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin waves over a long distance (10 m) at room temperature in a canted AFM -FeO with the Dzyaloshin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 3 cited

Structural Feature in Dynamical Processes Accelerated Transition State Calculations

Hongsheng Cai, Guoyuan Liu, Peiqi Qiu +1

Minimum energy path (MEP) search is a vital but often very time-consuming method to predict the transition states of versatile dynamic processes in chemistry, physics, and material…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 27 cited

Triple hourglass Weyl phonons

Guang Liu, Zhongjia Chen, Peng Wu +1

Unconventional Weyl phonons with higher topological charges in crystalline solids have attracted increasing attention. By symmetry analysis and low-energy effective Hamiltoni…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 4 cited

Reverse Doping Asymmetry in Semiconductor Thin Films Using External Voltage

Kai Liu, Zhibin Yi, Guangfu Luo

Doping asymmetry is a notable phenomenon with semiconductors and a particularly longstanding challenge limiting the applications of most wide-band-gap semiconductors, which are inh…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 31 cited

Chern-insulator phase in antiferromagnets

Yuntian Liu, Jiayu Li, Qihang Liu

The long-sought Chern insulators that manifest quantum anomalous Hall effect are typically considered to occur solely in ferromagnets. Here, we theoretically predict the realizabil…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 16 cited

Strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Monolayer CrI on Metal Substrates

Fan Zhang, Xueao Li, Yabei Wu +3

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is the primary mechanism for realizing real-space chiral spin textures, which are regarded as key components for the next-generation spintro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 71 cited

Magnetization switching in polycrystalline Mn3Sn thin film induced by self-generated spin-polarized current

Hang Xie, Xin Chen, Qi Zhang +4

Electrical manipulation of spins is essential to design state-of-the-art spintronic devices and commonly relies on the spin current injected from a second heavy-metal material. The…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 8 cited

Pressure-induced structural phase transitions of zirconium: An ab initio study based on statistical ensemble theory

Bo-Yuan Ning

The structural phase behaviors of pure zirconium metal under compressions up to GPa at room temperature are investigated from the perspective of ensemble theory where the par…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 27 cited

Strain tunability of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in van der Waals ferromagnets VI3

Xi Zhang, Le Wang, Huimin Su +7

Layered ferromagnets with high coercivity have special applications in nanoscale memory elements in electronic circuits, such as data storage. Therefore, searching for new hard fer…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 12 cited

Van der Waals engineering of ultrafast carrier dynamics in magnetic heterostructures

Paulina Majchrzak, Yuntian Liu, Klara Volckaert +10

Heterostructures composed of the intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBiTe and its non-magnetic counterpart BiTe host distinct surface electronic band structu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 9 cited

Experimental evaluation of a silicone oil as an oxidation inhibitor for magnesium alloy under contact sliding at elevated temperatures

Yan Wang, Liangchi Zhang, Chuhan Wu

This paper experimentally investigated the effects of silicone oil on the tribological behaviour of AZ31B/86CrMoV7 contact pair under a pin-on-disk configuration. A commercial sili…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 4 cited

Spin-phonon dispersion in magnetic materials

Mingqiang Gu, Y. H. Bai, G. P. Zhang +1

Microscopic coupling between the electron spin and the lattice vibration is responsible for an array of exotic properties from morphic effects in simple magnets to magnetodielectri…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 19 cited

Observation of magnetism induced topological edge state in antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi4Te7

HaoKe Xu, Mingqiang Gu, Fucong Fei +16

Breaking time reversal symmetry in a topological insulator may lead to quantum anomalous Hall effect and axion insulator phase. MnBi4Te7 is a recently discovered antiferromagnetic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 7 cited

Identifying the Alloy Structures of Germanene Grown on Al(111) Surface

Feini Yan, Shaogang Xu, Chao He +3

While the growth of germanene has been claimed on many substrates, the exact crystal structures remain controversial. Here, we systematically explore the possible structures formed…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 13 cited

Proximity-induced superconducting gap in the intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4

Wen-Zheng Xu, Chun-Guang Chu, Zhen-Cun Pan +7

We report magnetotransport measurements in the NbN/ magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (MBT)/ NbN junction at low temperature. At 10 mK, the nonlinear current-voltage characte…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 50 cited

Intertwining of magnetism and charge ordering in kagome FeGe

Sen Shao, Jia-Xin Yin, Ilya Belopolski +11

Recent experiments report a charge density wave (CDW) in the antiferromagnet FeGe, but the nature of the charge ordering and the associated structural distortion remains elusive. W…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 8 cited

Five-fold Symmetry in Au-Si Metallic Glass

Chang-Chun He, Shao-Gang Xu, Shao-Bin Qiu +4

The first metallic glass of Au-Si alloy has been discovered for over half a century, but its atomic structure is still puzzling. Herein, Au 8 Si dodecahedrons with local five-fold…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 19 cited

Parity-breaking in single-element phases: Ferroelectric-like elemental polar metals

Hu Zhang, Bei Deng, Wei-Chao Wang +1

Polar metals based on binary and ternary compounds have been demonstrated in literature. Here, we propose a design principle for ferroelectric-like elemental polar metals and relat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 49 cited

Role of hidden spin polarization in non-reciprocal transport of antiferromagnets

Weizhao Chen, Mingqiang Gu, Jiayu Li +2

The discovery of hidden spin polarization (HSP) in centrosymmetric nonmagnetic crystals, i.e., spatially distributed spin polarization originated from local symmetry breaking, has…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 14 cited

Element resolved evidence of superdiffusive terahertz spin current arising from ultrafast demagnetization process

R. Gupta, F. Cosco, R. S. Malik +13

Using element-specific measurements of the ultrafast demagnetization of Ru/FeCo heterostructures, we show that Ru can exhibit a significant magnetic contrast (3% asym…