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most citedSemimetallic Two-Dimensional Boron Allotrope with Massless Dirac Fermions

646 citations

69 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 17 cited

Synthesis of metalloborophene nanoribbons on Cu(110)

Xiao-Ji Weng, Yi Zhu, Ying Xu +5

Metalloborophene, characterized by the presence of metal-centered boron wheels denoted as M\c{opyright}Bn, has garnered considerable attention in recent years due to its versatile…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Realization of multiple topological states and topological phase transitions in (4,0) carbon nanotube derivatives

Yan Gao, Yu Du, Yun-Yun Bai +5

Exploring various topological states (TS) and topological phase transitions (TPT) has attracted great attention in condensed matter physics. However, so far, there is rarely a typi…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 71 cited

Superconductivity in Li8Au electride

Xiaohua Zhang, Yansun Yao, Shicong Ding +5

Located at crystal voids, interstitial anion electrons (IAEs) have diverse topologies, which may be tuned to achieve new properties. Elucidating the role of IAEs in electron-phonon…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 3 cited

The unexpected magnetism in 2D group-IV-doped GaN for spintronic applications

Rui Zhao, Rui Guo, Yanfeng Ge +2

In this study, the structural and magnetic properties of group-IV-doped monolayer GaN were systematically investigated by first-principles calculations. Among all the group-IV dopa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 11 cited

Intrinsic ferromagnetic axion states and a single pair of Weyl fermions in the stable-state Mn\emph{X}\emph{B}\emph{T}-family materials

Yan Gao, Weikang Wu, Ben-Chao Gong +6

The intrinsic ferromagnetic (FM) axion insulators and Weyl semimetals (WSMs) with only single pair of Weyl points have drawn intensive attention but so far remain rare and elusive…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 22 cited

Helium-bearing superconductor at high pressure

Jingyu Hou, Xiao Dong, Artem R. Oganov +6

Helium (He) is the most inert noble gas at ambient conditions. It adopts a hexagonal close packed structure (P63/mmc) and remains in the insulating phase up to 32 TPa. In contrast,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 12 cited

2D-XY ferromagnetism with high transition temperature in Janus monolayer VXN (X = P, As)

Wenhui Wan, Botao Fu, Chang Liu +3

Two-dimensional (2D) XY magnets with easy magnetization planes support the nontrivial topological spin textures whose dissipationless transport is highly desirable for 2D spintroni…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 2 cited

Topological semimetal phases in a family of monolayer X3YZ6 (X=Nb,Ta, Y=Si,Ge,Sn, Z=S,Se,Te) with abundant nodal lines and nodes

Xing Wang, Wenhui Wan, Yanfeng Ge +1

The electronic and topological properties of single-layer X3YZ6 (X=Nb,Ta, Y=Si,Ge,Sn, Z=S,Se,Te) materials have been studied with the aid of first principles calculations. This kin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 7 cited

Stable Ferromagnetism and High Curie Temperature in VGeN

Yingmei Li, Yong Liu

The discovery of monolayer MAZ (M = transition metals; A = IVA elements; Z = VA elements, Science 369, 2020, 670-674) family has led another advance for facilitating and ha…

physics.geo-ph2022★ 28 cited

Ultrahigh-Pressure Magnesium Hydrosilicates as Reservoirs of Water in Early Earth

Han-Fei Li, Artem R. Oganov, Haixu Cui +3

The origin of water on the Earth is a long-standing mystery, requiring a comprehensive search for hydrous compounds, stable at conditions of the deep Earth and made of Earth-abunda…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 1 cited

Two-dimensional antiferromagnetic semiconductor T'-MoTeI from first principles

Michang Zhang, Fei Li, Yulu Ren +4

Two-dimensional intrinsic antiferromagnetic semiconductors are expected to stand out in the spintronic field. The present work finds the monolayer T'-MoTeI is intrinsically an anti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 13 cited

Unusual phase transition of layer-stacked borophene under pressure

Xiao-Ji Weng, QuanSheng Wu, Xi Shao +6

The 8-Pmmn borophene, a boron analogue of graphene, hosts tilted and anisotropic massless Dirac fermion quasiparticles owing to the presence of the distorted graphene-like sublatti…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 16 cited

Superconducting LaP2H2 with graphenelike phosphorus layers

Xing Li, Xiaohua Zhang, Aitor Bergara +3

Novel structural building blocks in compounds could induce interesting physical and chemical properties. Although phosphorus tends to form very different motifs, the existence of l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 6 cited

Quantum spin Hall effect in two-dimensional transition-metal chalcogenides

Xing Wang, Wenhui Wan, Yanfeng Ge +2

Based on first-principles calculations, we have found a family of 2D transition-metal (TM) chalcogenides MX5 (M = Zr, Hf and X = S, Se and Te) can host quantum spin Hall (QSH) effe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 6 cited

Strain Tunable Intrinsic Ferromagnetic in 2D Square CrBr

Fei Li, Yulu Ren, Wenhui Wan +2

Two-dimensional (2D) intrinsic magnetic materials with high Curie temperature (Tc) coexisting with 100% spin-polarization are highly desirable for realizing promising spintronic de…

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

Robust large-gap topological insulator phase in transition-metal chalcogenide ZrTeSe

Xing Wang, Wenhui Wan, Yanfeng Ge +1

Based on density functional theory (DFT), we investigate the electronic properties of bulk and single-layer ZrTeSe. The band structure of bulk ZrTeSe can produce a semimeta…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 2 cited

Negative linear compressibility and unusual dynamic behaviors of NaB3

Xin-Ling He, Shu-Ning Pan, Yue Chen +7

First-principles calculations reveal that sodium boride (NaB3) undergoes a phase transition from a tetragonal P4/mbm phase to an orthorhombic Pbam phase at about 16 GPa, accompanie…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 25 cited

Room-Temperature Superconductivity in Boron-Nitrogen Doped Lanthanum Superhydride

Yanfeng Ge, Fan Zhang, Russell J. Hemley

Recent theoretical and experimental studies of hydrogen-rich materials at megabar pressures (i.e., >100 GPa) have led to the discovery of very high-temperature superconductivity in…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 72 cited

Hole-Doped Room-Temperature Superconductivity in HSZ (Z=C, Si)

Yanfeng Ge, Fan Zhang, Ranga P. Dias +2

We examine the effects of the low-level substitution of S atoms by C and Si atoms on the superconductivity of HS with the structure at megabar pressure. The hole d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Diverse magnetism in stable and metastable structures of CrTe

Na Kang, Wenhui Wan, Yanfeng Ge +1

In this paper, we systematically investigated the structural and magnetic properties of CrTe by combining particle swarm optimization algorithm and first-principles calculations. W…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 6 cited

Large magnetic anisotropy energy and robust half-metallic ferromagnetism in 2D MnXSe (X = As, Sb)

Tengfei Hu, Wenhui Wan, Yingmei Li +2

In recent years, intrinsic two-dimensional (2D) magnetism aroused great interest because of its potential application in spintronic devices. However, low Curie temperature (\emph{T…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 17 cited

Electronic Transport of Two-Dimensional Ultrawide Bandgap Material h-BeO

Yanfeng Ge, Wenhui Wan, Yulu Ren +2

Two-dimensional ultrawide bandgap materials, with bandgaps significantly wider than 3.4 eV, have compelling potential advantages in nano high-power semiconductor, deep-ultraviolet…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 30 cited

Helium Induced Nitrogen Salt at High Pressure

Jingyu Hou, Xiao-Ji Weng, Artem R. Oganov +6

The energy landscape of helium-nitrogen mixtures is explored by ab initio evolutionary searches, which predicted several stable helium-nitrogen compounds in the pressure range from…