output
20002026
most citedLow-energy effective Hamiltonian involving spin-orbit coupling in Silicene and Two-Dimensional Germanium and Tin

1.4k citations

Showing cond-mat.mtrl-sciShow all

236 papers · 1 filter

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Hyperspin Altermagnets

Hai-Yang Ma, Yuanchang Li, Hu Xu +2

The behavior of spin quantum in k-space is key to identifying altermagnets (AMs) as the third kind of fundamental collinear magnetism. In contrast, non-collinear magnets,though abu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Quantized Spin Hall Effect in Three-Dimensional Nodal-Ring Semimetal: Geometric Scaling and Symmetry-Engineered Spin Response

Jiali Chen, Chaoxi Cui, Zhi-Ming Yu +2

The anomalous Hall conductivity in magnetic Weyl semimetals scales linearly with the momentum separation between Weyl nodes, establishing a geometric paradigm for three-dimensional…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 184 cited

Topological Phase Transition in Mechanical Honeycomb Lattice

Yi Chen, Xiaoning Liu, Gengkai Hu

Topological materials provide a new tool to direct wave energy with unprecedented precision and robustness. Three elastic topological phases, the valley Hall, Chern and spin Hall i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Modulation of charge density waves in a twisted vortex moire superlattice

Qian Fang, Yanhao Shi, Jingyi Duan +11

Twisted moire superlattices in van-der-Waals heterostructures provide a powerful platform for engineering correlated states through moire-band reconstruction. However, whether glob…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Antiferroaxial altermagnetism

Yichen Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu

The antiferroaxial state is emerging as an important ferroic order in condensed matter systems. Here, we establish antiferroaxial altermagnetism as a broadly prevalent, generic, an…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 2 cited

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-sci2025★ 2 cited

Unveiling the amorphous ice layer during premelting using AFM integrating machine learning

Binze Tang, Chon-Hei Lo, Tiancheng Liang +6

Premelting plays a key role across physics, chemistry, materials and biology sciences but remains poorly understood at the atomic level due to surface characterization limitations.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Disorder-mediated linear and nonlinear magnetotransport in the charge-density-wave material

Xiaodong Sun, Jiabin Qiao, Yuanzhe Li +13

We report disorder-mediated first-order linear and higher-order nonlinear (magneto-)transport of TaNiSe (TNS) in the charge-density-wave (CDW) regime. CDW transition temper…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Exchange-Correlation Functionals in 2D Materials: Applications, Challenges, and Limitations

Ahsan Javed, Mahvish Shaheen, Muhammad Shahbaz +3

The rapid development of two-dimensional (2D) materials has reshaped modern nanoscience, offering properties that differ fundamentally from their bulk counterparts. As experimental…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Magnetotransport in Topological Materials and Nonlinear Hall Effect via First-Principles Electronic Interactions and Band Topology

Dhruv C. Desai, Lauren A. Tan, Jin-Jian Zhou +3

Topological effects arising from the Berry curvature lead to intriguing transport signatures in quantum materials. Two such phenomena are the chiral anomaly and nonlinear Hall effe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Magnetoelectric effect in multiferroic metals via a direct spin-charge interaction

Zefei Han, Haojin Wang, Yuanchang Li

Much is known about the magnetoelectric effect of multiferroic insulators, yet little is understood about multiferroic metals. In this work, we propose a stacking engineering strat…

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.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Free-carrier screening unlocks high electron mobility in ultrawide bandgap semiconductor CaSnO

Jiayi Gong, Chuanyu Zhang, Wenjie Hu +1

Alkaline earth stannates have emerged as promising transparent conducting oxides due to their wide band gaps and high room-temperature electron mobilities. Among them, CaSnO po…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Phonons Drive the Topological Phase Transition in Quasi-One-Dimensional BiI

Wenjie Hu, Jiayi Gong, Yuhui Qiu +3

Quasi-one-dimensional bismuth halides offer an exceptional platform for exploring diverse topological phases, yet the nature of the room-temperature topological phase transition in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Subsurface Vacancy Engineering Enables Atomically Clean and Oxidation-Resistant Copper Interfaces for Anode-Free Lithium Metal Batteries

Yue Li, Xuanguang Ren, Xueting Feng +8

Interfaces govern reaction pathways and stability in electrochemical systems, yet creating clean, well-defined metal interfaces at scale remains challenging. In anode-free lithium…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 5 cited

Quantum metric-based optical selection rules

Yongpan Li, Cheng-Cheng Liu

The optical selection rules dictate symmetry-allowed/forbidden transitions, playing a decisive role in engineering exciton quantum states and designing optoelectronic devices. Whil…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 4 cited

Incipient ionic conductors: Ion-constrained lattices achieving superionic-like thermal conductivity by extreme anharmonicity

Yongheng Li, Chunqiu Lu, Bin Wei +7

Phonon liquid-like thermal conduction in the solid state enables superionic conductors to serve as efficient thermoelectric device candidates. While liquid-like motion of ions effe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Low and Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity in Mixed-Valent SnS

Xingang Jiang, Yongheng Li, Weiping Guo +4

Compounds of Sn, such as SnSe and SnS, exhibit novel phonon characteristics and low thermal conductivity, making them emerging star materials in the thermoelectric family. In this…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 28 cited

Sliding Ferroelectrics Induced Hybrid-Order Topological Phase Transitions

Ning-Jing Yang, Jian-Min Zhang, Xiao-Ping Li +4

We propose ferroelectric layer sliding as a new approach to realize and manipulate topological quantum states in two-dimensional (2D) bilayer magnetic van der Waals materials. We s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

ProME: An Integrated Computational Platform for Material Properties at Extremes and Its Application in Multicomponent Alloy Design

Xingyu Gao, William Yi Wang, Xin Chen +8

We have built an integrated computational platform for material properties at extreme conditions, ProME (Professional Materials at Extremes) v1.0, which enables integrated calculat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 74 cited

Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials

F. Javier García de Abajo, D. N. Basov, Frank H. L. Koppens +145

Triggered by the development of exfoliation and the identification of a wide range of extraordinary physical properties in self-standing films consisting of one or few atomic layer…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 9 cited

Real Space Visualization of Order-Disorder Transition in BaTiO3

Yang Zhang, Xiaoming Shi, Suk Hyun Sung +4

Ferroelectricity in BaTiO3 was observed nearly eighty years ago, but the mechanism underlying its ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition remains elusive. The order-disorder tr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Nonlinear Breakdown of Antisymmetric Flexoelectric Coupling

Yingzhuo Lun, Yida Yang, Tingjun Wang +4

Flexoelectric coupling is conventionally regarded as antisymmetric, such that reversing the strain gradient reverses the polarization direction while preserving its magnitude. Here…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 51 cited

Spin-Polarized Antiferromagnetic Spintronics

Zhenzhou Guo, Xiaotian Wang, Wenhong Wang +3

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-gener…