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most citedThe virtual crystal approximation revisited: Application to dielectric and piezoelectric properties of perovskites

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Theory of polarization-switchable electrical conductivity anisotropy in nonpolar semiconductors

Hong Jian Zhao, Yanchao Wang, Laurent Bellaiche +1

The anisotropic propagation of particles is a fundamental transport phenomenon in solid state physics. As for crystalline semiconductors, the anisotropic charge transport opens nov…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Insulating moiré homobilayers lack a threefold symmetric second harmonic generation

Luis Enrique Rosas-Hernandez, Jose Luis Cabellos, Angiolo Huamán +2

Atoms within moiré bilayers relax in-plane to minimize elastic energy [e.g., Cazeaux et al., J. Elast. 154, 443 (2023)]; such relaxation brings their space group symmetries down to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 12 cited

Large Enhancement of Properties in Strained Lead-free Multiferroic Solid Solutions with Strong Deviation from Vegard's Law

Tao Wang, Mingjie Zou, Dehe Zhang +18

Efforts to combine the advantages of multiple systems to enhance functionlities through solid solution design present a great challenge due to the constraint imposed by the classic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 26 cited

Large photo-induced tuning of ferroelectricity in sliding ferroelectrics

Lingyuan Gao, Laurent Bellaiche

Stacking nonpolar, monolayer materials has emerged as an effective strategy to harvest ferroelectricity in two-dimensional (2D) van de Waals (vdW) materials. At a particular stacki…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Anomalous Hall effect from nonlinear magnetoelectric coupling

Longju Yu, Hong Jian Zhao, Yurong Yang +2

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is a topology-related transport phenomenon being of potential interest in spintronics, because this effect enables the efficient probe of magnetic o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 4 cited

Biaxial strain tuning of excitons in monolayer MoSe by high-temperature physical vapor deposition

S. Patel, T. Faltermeier, S. Puri +6

We present strain tuning of excitonic emission in monolayer MoSe by using a high-temperature physical vapor deposition (PVD). The use of two amorphous substrates, SiN$_{4…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 15 cited

Giant electro-optic and elasto-optic effects in ferroelectric NbOI

Zhenlong Zhang, Xuehan Di, Charles Paillard +2

First-principles calculations are performed to investigate the electro-optic (EO) and elasto-optic effects of the three-dimensional (bulk) and two-dimensional (monolayer) ferroelec…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 21 cited

Electron ptychography reveals a ferroelectricity dominated by anion displacements

Harikrishnan KP, Ruijuan Xu, Kinnary Patel +9

Sodium niobate, a lead-free ferroic material, hosts delicately-balanced, competing order parameters, including ferroelectric states that can be stabilized by epitaxial strain. Here…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 6 cited

Strain-induced bent domains in ferroelectric nitrides

Zhijun Jiang, Zhenlong Zhang, Charles Paillard +2

Ferroelectric nitrides have emerged as promising semiconductor materials for modern electronics. However, their domain structures and associated properties are basically unknown, d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 11 cited

Insulator-to-Metal Transition and Isotropic Gigantic Magnetoresistance in Layered Magnetic Semiconductors

Gokul Acharya, Bimal Neupane, Chia-Hsiu Hsu +16

Magnetotransport, the response of electrical conduction to external magnetic field, acts as an important tool to reveal fundamental concepts behind exotic phenomena and plays a key…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 20 cited

Substrate interference and strain in the second harmonic generation from MoSe monolayers

S. Puri, S. Patel, J. L. Cabellos +4

Nonlinear optical materials of atomic thickness--such as non-centrosymmetric 2H transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers--have a second order nonlinear susceptibility ()…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 17 cited

Evolution of Magnetism in Magnetic Topological Semimetal NdSbTe

Santosh Karki Chhetri, Rabindra Basnet, Jian Wang +7

Magnetic topological semimetals LnSbTe (Ln = Lanthanide) have attracted intensive attention because of the presence of interplay between magnetism, topological, and electron correl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 14 cited

General theory for longitudinal nonreciprocal charge transport

Hong Jian Zhao, Lingling Tao, Yuhao Fu +2

The longitudinal nonreciprocal charge transport (NCT) in crystalline materials is a highly non-trivial phenomenon, motivating the design of next generation two-terminal rectificati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 9 cited

Field-induced spin polarization in lightly Cr-substituted layered antiferromagnet NiPS3

Rabindra Basnet, Dinesh Upreti, Taksh Patel +7

Tuning magnetic properties in layered magnets is an important route to realize novel phenomenon related to two-dimensional (2D) magnetism. Recently, tuning antiferromagnetic (AFM)…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 9 cited

Electro-optic properties from ab initio calculations in two-dimensional materials

Zhijun Jiang, Hongjun Xiang, Laurent Bellaiche +1

Electro-optic (EO) effects relate the change of optical constants by low-frequency electric fields. Thanks to the advent of Density Functional Perturbation Theory (DFPT), the EO pr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 16 cited

Understanding and tuning magnetism in layered Ising-type antiferromagnet FePSe3 for potential 2D magnet

Rabindra Basnet, Taksh Patel, Jian Wang +6

Recent development in two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials have motivated the search for new van der Waals magnetic materials, especially Ising-type magnets with strong magnetic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 10 cited

Ferroelectric texture of individual barium titanate nanocrystals

Athulya Muraleedharan, Kevin Co, Maxime Vallet +8

Ferroelectric materials display exotic polarization textures at the nanoscale that could be used to improve the energetic efficiency of electronic components. The vast majority of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 13 cited

Superorders and acoustic modes folding in BiFeO/LaFeO superlattices

R. Gu, R. Xu, F. Delodovici +18

Superlattices are materials created by the alternating growth of two chemically different materials. The direct consequence of creating a superlattice is the folding of the Brillou…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 5 cited

Oxygen tilt-driven polar super-orders in BiFeO3-based superlattices

Ran Xu, Francesco Delodovici, Brahim Dkhil +1

Ferroelectric-dielectric superlattices have attracted renewed interest for their ability to frustrate the polar order, leading to the emergence of exotic polar textures. The electr…