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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Optical Manipulation of Magnetic Vortex Visualized in situ by 4D Electron Microscopy

Xuewen Fu, Shawn D. Pollard, Bin Chen +3

Understanding the fundamental dynamics of topological vortex and antivortex naturally formed in micro/nanoscale ferromagnetic building blocks under external perturbations is crucia…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 27 cited

Non-uniform carrier density in CdAs evidenced by optical spectroscopy

I. Crassee, E. Martino, C. C. Homes +13

We report the detailed optical properties of CdAs crystals in a wide parameter space: temperature, magnetic field, carrier concentration and crystal orientation. We investi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 138 cited

Magnetism in Semiconducting Molybdenum Dichalcogenides

Z. Guguchia, A. Kerelsky, D. Edelberg +18

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are interesting for understanding fundamental physics of two-dimensional materials (2D) as well as for many emerging technologies, including…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 4 cited

Small influence of magnetic ordering on lattice dynamics in TaFeTe

M. Opačić, N. Lazarević, D. Tanasković +5

Raman scattering spectra of zigzag spin chain TaFeTe single crystal are presented in a temperature range from 80 to 300 K. Nine Raman active modes of and s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 23 cited

Magnetic order and energy-scale hierarchy in artificial spin ice

Henry Stopfel, Erik Östman, Ioan-Augustin Chioar +6

In order to explain and predict the properties of many physical systems, it is essential to understand the interplay of different energy-scales. Here we present investigations of t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 17 cited

Control of magnetic anisotropy by orbital hybridization in (La0.67Sr0.33MnO3)n/(SrTiO3)n superlattice

Bangmin Zhang, Lijun Wu, Jincheng Zheng +10

The asymmetry of chemical nature at the hetero-structural interface offers an unique opportunity to design desirable electronic structure by controlling charge transfer and orbital…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 61 cited

Correlated local dipoles in PbTe

Boris Sangiorgio, Emil S. Bozin, Christos D. Malliakas +6

We present a combined single-crystal x-ray diffuse scattering and ab-initio molecular dynamics study of lead telluride, PbTe. Well-known for its thermoelectric and narrow-gap semic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 53 cited

Large magnetoresistance in type-II Weyl semimetal WP

Aifeng Wang, D. Graf, Yu Liu +4

We report magnetotransport study on type-II Weyl semimetal WP single crystals. Magnetoresistance (MR) exhibits a nonsaturating field dependence (14,300\% at 2 K and 9 T…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 20 cited

Theory of Electron-Phonon-Dislon Interacting System - Toward a Quantized Theory of Dislocations

Mingda Li, Yoichiro Tsurimaki, Qingping Meng +4

We provide a comprehensive theoretical framework to study how crystal dislocations influence the functional properties of materials, based on the idea of quantized dislocation, nam…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 18 cited

Molecular Polarizability of Water from the Local Dielectric Response Theory

Xiaochuan Ge, Deyu Lu

We propose a fully ab initio theory to compute the electron density response under the perturbation in the local field. This method is based on our recently developed local dielect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 45 cited

Unconventional order-disorder phase transition in improper ferroelectric hexagonal manganites

Sandra H. Skjærvø, Quintin Meier, Mikhail Feygenson +4

The improper ferroelectricity in YMnO and other related multiferroic hexagonal manganites are known to cause topologically protected ferroelectric domains that give rise to ric…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 73 cited

Band structure of a IV-VI black phosphorus analogue, the thermoelectric SnSe

I. Pletikosić, F. von Rohr, P. Pervan +4

The success of black phosphorus in fast electronic and photonic devices is hindered by its rapid degradation in presence of oxygen. Orthorhombic tin selenide is a representative of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 34 cited

Magnetotransport properties of MoP

Aifeng Wang, D. Graf, Yu Liu +1

We report magnetotransport and de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) effect studies on MoP single crystals, predicted to be type-2 Weyl semimetal with four pairs of robust Weyl points loca…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 112 cited

Critical behavior of quasi-two-dimensional semiconducting ferromagnet CrGeTe

Yu Liu, C. Petrovic

The critical properties of the single-crystalline semiconducting ferromagnet CrGeTe were investigated by bulk dc magnetization around the paramagnetic to ferromagnetic phase tr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 18 cited

Distinct Effects of Cr Bulk Doping and Surface Deposition on the Chemical Environment and Electronic Structure of the Topological Insulator Bi2Se3

Turgut Yilmaza, William Hines, Fu-Chang Sun +4

In this report, it is shown that Cr doped into the bulk and Cr deposited on the surface of Bi2Se3 films produced by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) have strikingly different effects o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 16 cited

Surface buckling of phosphorene materials: determination, origin and influence on electronic structure

Zhongwei Dai, Wencan Jin, Jie-Xiang Yu +7

The surface structure of phosphorene crystals materials is determined using surface sensitive dynamical micro-spot low energy electron diffraction (μLEED) analysis using a high spa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 21 cited

Observation of oscillatory relaxation in the Sn-terminated surface of epitaxial rock-salt SnSe topological crystalline insulator

Wencan Jin, Suresh Vishwanath, Jianpeng Liu +20

Topological crystalline insulators have been recently predicted and observed in rock-salt structure SnSe thin films. Previous studies have suggested that the Se-terminate…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 1 cited

Perovskite Quantum Organismoids

Fan Zuo, Priyadarshini Panda, Michele Kotiuga +14

A central characteristic of living beings is the ability to learn from and respond to their environment leading to habit formation and decision making1-3. This behavior, known as h…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Large Thermal Motion in Halide Perovskites

T. A. Tyson, W. Gao, Y. -S. Chen +2

Solar cells based on hybrid perovskites have shown high efficiency while possessing simple processing methods. To gain a fundamental understanding of their properties on an atomic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 301 cited

Observation of stable Neel skyrmions in Co/Pd multilayers with Lorentz transmission electron microscopy

Shawn D. Pollard, Joseph A. Garlow, Jiawei Yu +3

Neel skyrmions are of high interest due to their potential applications in a variety of spintronic devices, currently accessible in ultrathin heavy metal/ferromagnetic bilayers and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 88 cited

Lifshitz transition mediated electronic transport anomaly in bulk ZrTe5

Hang Chi, Cheng Zhang, Genda Gu +3

Zirconium pentatelluride ZrTe, a fascinating topological material platform, hosts exotic chiral fermions in its highly anisotropic three-dimensional Dirac band and holds great…