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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 20 cited

Superhard and Superconducting B6C

Kang Xia, Mengdong Ma, Cong Liu +7

Crystal structure searching and ab initio calculations have been used here to explore low-energy structures of boron carbides under high pressure. Under pressures of 85-110 GPa, a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 13 cited

Nonsymmorphic symmetry protected node-line semimetal in the trigonal YH3

Dexi Shao, Tong Chen, Qinyan Gu +5

Using ab initio calculations based on density-functional theory and effective model analysis, we propose that the trigonal YH3(Space Group: P-3c1) at ambient pressure is a node-lin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 162 cited

Two-Dimensional Hyperferroelectric Metals: a Different Route to Ferromagnetic-Ferroelectric Multiferroics

Wei Luo, Ke Xu, Hongjun Xiang

Recently, two-dimensional (2D) multiferroics have attracted numerous attention due to their fascinating properties and promising applications. Although the ferroelectric (FE)-ferro…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 7 cited

Spin Quenching Assisted by a Strongly Anisotropic Compression Behavior in MnP

Fei Han, Di Wang, Yonggang Wang +12

We studied the crystal structure and spin state of MnP under high pressure with synchrotron X-ray diffraction and X-ray emission spectroscopy. MnP has an exceedingly strong anisotr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 3 cited

Boundary states in the chiral symmetric systems with a spatial symmetry

Jinpeng Xiao, Jin An

We study topological systems with both a chiral and a spatial symmetry which result in an additional spatial chiral symmetry. We distinguish the topologically nontrivial states acc…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 24 cited

PrIrO: when Luttinger semimetal meets Melko-Hertog-Gingras spin ice state

Xu Ping Yao, Gang Chen

We study the band structure topology and engineering from the interplay between local moments and itinerant electrons in the context of pyrochlore iridates. For the metallic iridat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 22 cited

Ba(Zn,Co)2As2: a II-II-V Diluted Ferromagnetic Semiconductor with N-type Carriers

Shengli Guo, Huiyuan Man, Cui Ding +14

Diluted ferromagnetic semiconductors (DMSs) that combine the properties of semiconductors with ferromagnetism have potential application in spin-sensitive electronics (spintronics)…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 3 cited

In-gap bound states induced by a single nonmagnetic impurity in sign-preserving s-wave superconductors with incipient bands

Yi Gao, Yan Yu, Tao Zhou +2

We have investigated the in-gap bound states (IGBS) induced by a single nonmagnetic impurity in multiband superconductors with incipient bands. Contrary to the naive expectation, w…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 334 cited

Ultrafast, highly-sensitive infrared photodetectors based on two-dimensional oxyselenide crystals

Jianbo Yin, Zhenjun Tan, Hao Hong +10

Infrared detection and sensing is deeply embedded in modern technology and human society and its development has always been benefitting from the discovery of new photoelectric res…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 4 cited

Diagnosing the magnetic field-tuned symmetry nature of the topological electrons by conductance fluctuations in bulk-insulating BiSbTeSe2 devices

Shuai Zhang, Faji Xie, Xing-Chen Pan +5

We extract the quantum conductance fluctuations and study its magnetic field dependence in the gate-dependent transport of the topological electrons in bulk-insulating BiSbTeSe2 de…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 42 cited

Observation of spin-orbit magnetoresistance in metallic thin films on magnetic insulators

Lifan Zhou, Hongkang Song, Kai Liu +11

A magnetoresistance effect induced by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction was predicted, but not yet observed, in bilayers consisting of normal metal and ferromagnetic insulator. Her…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 3 cited

Evidence for nodal superconductivity in a layered compound TaPdTe

G. M. Pang, M. Smidman, W. H. Jiao +7

We report an investigation of the London penetration depth on single crystals of the layered superconductor TaPdTe, where the crystal structure has quasi-one…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 4 cited

Bosonic Integer Quantum Hall States without Landau Levels on Square Lattice

Wanli Liu, Zhiyu Dong, Zhihuan Dong +3

We study an interacting two-component hard-core bosons on square lattice for which, in the presence of staggered magnetic flux, the ground state is a bosonic integer quantum Hall (…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 70 cited

Emergent pseudospin-1 Maxwell fermions with a threefold degeneracy in optical lattices

Yan-Qing Zhu, Dan-Wei Zhang, Hui Yan +2

The discovery of relativistic spin-1/2 fermions such as Dirac and Weyl fermions in condensed-matter or artificial systems opens a new era in modern physics. An interesting but rare…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 30 cited

Competing phases and topological excitations of spin-one pyrochlore antiferromagnets

Fei Ye Li, Gang Chen

Most works on pyrochlore magnets deal with the interacting spin-1/2 local moments. We here study the spin-one local moments on the pyrochlore lattice, and propose a generic interac…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 349 cited

Nodal surface semimetals: Theory and material realization

Weikang Wu, Ying Liu, Si Li +5

We theoretically study the three-dimensional topological semimetals with nodal surfaces protected by crystalline symmetries. Different from the well-known nodal-point and nodal-lin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 25 cited

Half-metallicity in honeycomb-kagome-lattice Mg3C2 monolayer with carrier doping

Hongzhe Pan, Yin Han, Jianfu Li +3

To obtain high-performance spintronic devices with high integration density, two-dimensional (2D) half-metallic materials are eagerly pursued all along. Here, we propose a stable 2…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 57 cited

Protonation induced high-Tc phases in iron-based superconductors evidenced by NMR and magnetization measurements

Yi Cui, Gehui Zhang, Haobo Li +14

Chemical substitution during growth is a well-established method to manipulate electronic states of quantum materials, and leads to rich spectra of phase diagrams in cuprate and ir…

cond-mat.stat-mech2017★ 2 cited

XXZ-Ising model on the triangular kagome lattice with spin-1 on the decorated trimers

Chengkang Zhou, Yuanwei Feng, Jiawei Ruan +1

We consider the triangular kagome XXZ-Ising model (TKL XXZ-Ising model) formed by inserting small triangles ("a-trimers") with XXZ spin-1 inside the triangles of the kagome lattice…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 57 cited

Approaching the Type-II Dirac Point and Concomitant Superconductivity in Pt-doping Stabilized Metastable 1T-phase IrTe2

Fucong Fei, Xiangyan Bo, Pengdong Wang +12

Topological semimetal is a topic of general interest in material science. Recently, a new kind of topological semimetal called type-II Dirac semimetal with tilted Dirac cones is di…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 54 cited

Antiferromagnetic domain wall motion driven by polarized spin waves

Weichao Yu, Jin Lan, Jiang Xiao

The control of magnetic domain walls is essential for the magnetic-based memory and logic applications. As an elementary excitation of magnetic order, spin wave is capable of movin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 80 cited

Observation of Coulomb gap in the quantum spin Hall candidate single-layer 1T'-WTe

Ye-Heng Song, Zhen-Yu Jia, Dongqin Zhang +8

The two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTI) host a full gap in the bulk band, induced by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effect, together with the topologically protected gapless e…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 5 cited

Projective symmetry group classification of parafermion spin liquids on a honeycomb lattice

Zhao-Yang Dong, Shun-Li Yu, Jian-Xin Li

To study exotic excitations described by parafermions in the possible spin liquid states of SU() spin systems, we introduce a parafermion parton approach. The SU() spin opera…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 15 cited

SU() spin-wave theory: Application to spin-orbital Mott insulators

Zhao-Yang Dong, Wei Wang, Jian-Xin Li

We present the application of the SU() () spin-wave theory to spin-orbital Mott insulators whose ground states exhibit magnetic orders. When taking both the spin and orbita…