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most citedA Symmetry-orientated Divide-and-Conquer Method for Crystal Structure Prediction

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Unlocking the Power of Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory to Explore the Electronic Structure Under Extreme Conditions

Cheng Ma, Qiang Xu, Zhenhao Zhang +8

Recent advances in X-ray free-electron laser diagnostics have enabled direct probing of the electronic structure under extreme pressures and temperatures, such as those encountered…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Zeeman-type spin splittings in strained d-wave altermagnets

Yahui Zhai, Longju Yu, Jian Lv +2

Recently, altermagnetic materials have become rather attractive because such materials showcase combined advantages of ferromagnets (e.g., spin current) and antiferromagnets (e.g.,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 14 cited

CrystalFlow: A Flow-Based Generative Model for Crystalline Materials

Xiaoshan Luo, Zhenyu Wang, Qingchang Wang +4

Deep learning-based generative models have emerged as powerful tools for modeling complex data distributions and generating high-fidelity samples, offering a transformative approac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 13 cited

Engineering ferroelectricity in monoclinic hafnia

Hong Jian Zhao, Yuhao Fu, Longju Yu +4

Ferroelectricity in the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible hafnia (HfO) is crucial for the fabrication of high-integration nonvolatile memory devices. Ho…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 9 cited

The anti-symmetric and anisotropic symmetric exchange interactions between electric dipoles in hafnia

Longju Yu, Hong Jian Zhao, Peng Chen +2

The anti-symmetric and anisotropic symmetric exchange interactions between two magnetic dipole moments - responsible for intriguing magnetic textures (e.g., magnetic skyrmions) - h…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 34 cited

Zeeman effect in centrosymmetric antiferromagnets controlled by an electric field

Hong Jian Zhao, Xinran Liu, Yanchao Wang +3

Centrosymmetric antiferromagnetic semiconductors, although abundant in nature, seem less promising than ferromagnets and ferroelectrics for practical applications in semiconductor…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 39 cited

Nonlocal Pseudopotential Energy Density Functional for Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory

Qiang Xu, Cheng Ma, Wenhui Mi +2

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) runs at low computational cost that scales linearly with the number of simulated atoms, making it suitable for large-scale material…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 33 cited

Design and Synthesis of Clathrate LaB8 with Superconductivity

Liang Ma, Xin Yang, Guangtao Liu +6

Boron-based clathrate materials, typically with three-dimensional networks of B atoms, have tunable properties through substitution of guest atoms, but the tuning of B cages themse…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 140 cited

A Symmetry-orientated Divide-and-Conquer Method for Crystal Structure Prediction

Xuecheng Shao, Jian Lv, Peng Liu +5

Crystal structure prediction has been a subject of topical interest, but remains a substantial challenge, especially for complex structures as it deals with the global minimization…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 51 cited

En route to high Tc superconductivity via Rb substitution of guest metal atoms in SrB3C3 clathrate

Peiyu Zhang, Xue Li, Xin Yang +3

Recently, a host/guest clathrate SrB3C3 with sp3-bonded boron-carbon framework was synthesized at around 50 GPa. On the basis of electron count, the structure is understood as gues…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Superconductivity in Shear Strained Semiconductors

Chang Liu, Xianqi Song, Quan Li +2

Semiconductivity and superconductivity are remarkable quantum phenomena that have immense impact on science and technology, and materials that can be tuned, usually by pressure or…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 18 cited

Crossing and anti-crossing effects of polaritons in a magnetic-semiconductor superlattice influenced by an external magnetic field

Vladimir R. Tuz, Volodymyr I. Fesenko, Illia V. Fedorin +2

Crossing and anti-crossing effects in dispersion characteristics of both bulk and surface polaritons in a magnetic-semiconductor superlattice influenced by an external static magne…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 18 cited

Coexistence of bulk and surface polaritons in a~magnetic-semiconductor superlattice influenced by a transverse magnetic field

Vladimir R. Tuz, Volodymyr I. Fesenko, Illia V. Fedorin +2

It is demonstrated that the effect of coexistence of bulk and surface polaritons within the same frequency band and wavevector space can be achieved in a magnetic-semiconductor sup…