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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 18 cited

Understanding the origin of bandgap problem in transition and post-transition metal oxides

Hengxin Tan, Haitao Liu, Yuanchang Li +2

Improving electronic structure calculations for practical and technologically-important materials has been a never-ending pursue. This is especially true for transition and post-tr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 34 cited

Dimensional Crossover and Topological Phase Transition in Dirac Semimetal Na3Bi Films

Huinan Xia, Yang Li, Min Cai +7

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetal, when thinned down to 2D few layers, is expected to possess gapped Dirac nodes via quantum confinement effect and concomitantly d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 54 cited

Evidence for quasi-one-dimensional charge density wave in CuTe by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Kenan Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, Haoxiong Zhang +10

We report the electronic structure of CuTe with a high charge density wave (CDW) transition temperature Tc = 335 K by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). An anisotro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 61 cited

Oxygen-Octahedral-Tilting-Driven Topological Hall Effect in Ultrathin SrRuO3 Films

Youdi Gu, Yi-Wen Wei, Kun Xu +13

Topological spin textures as an emerging class of topological matter offer a medium for information storage and processing. The recently discovered topological Hall effect (THE) is…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 2 cited

Towards the growth of single-crystal boron nitride monolayer on Cu

Li Wang, Xiaozhi Xu, Leining Zhang +21

Atom-layered hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), with excellent stability, flat surface and large bandgap, has been reported to be the best 2D insulator to open up the great possibiliti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Observation of Anomalous Hall Effect in Noncollinear Antiferromagnetic Mn3Sn Films

Yunfeng You, Xianzhe Chen, Xiaofeng Zhou +4

Magnetotransport is at the center of the spintronics. Mn3Sn, an antiferromagnet that has a noncollinear 120° spin order, exhibits large anomalous Hall effect (AHE) at room temperat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 53 cited

Half Excitonic Insulator: A Single-Spin Bose-Einstein Condensate

Zeyu Jiang, Yuanchang Li, Wenhui Duan +1

First-principles calculations reveal an unusual electronic state (dubbed as half excitonic insulator) in monolayer 1T-MX2 (M = Co, Ni and X = Cl, Br). Its one spin channel has a ma…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 146 cited

Long Range Intrinsic Ferromagnetism in Two Dimensional Materials and Dissipationless Future Technologies

Babar Shabbir, Muhammad Nadeem, Zhigao Dai +4

The inherent susceptibility of low-dimensional materials to thermal fluctuations has long been expected to poses a major challenge to achieving intrinsic long-range ferromagnetic o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 687 cited

Experimental realization of an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator

Yan Gong, Jingwen Guo, Jiaheng Li +21

Intrinsic magnetic topological insulator (TI) is a stoichiometric magnetic compound possessing both inherent magnetic order and topological electronic states. Such a material can p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 32 cited

Electron Transport in Dirac and Weyl Semimetals

Huichao Wang, Jian Wang

Recently, the Dirac and Weyl semimetals have attracted extensive attention in condensed matter physics due to both the fundamental interest and the potential application of a new g…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 1.1k cited

Intrinsic magnetic topological insulators in van der Waals layered MnBiTe-family materials

Jiaheng Li, Yang Li, Shiqiao Du +6

The interplay of magnetism and topology is a key research subject in condensed matter physics and material science, which offers great opportunities to explore emerging new physics…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 15 cited

Barkhausen effect in the first order structural phase transition in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2

Chuanwu Cao, Xin Liu, Xiao Ren +7

We report the first observation of the non-magnetic Barkhausen effect in van der Waals layered crystals, specifically, between the Td and 1T' phases in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 96 cited

Artificial Intelligent Atomic Force Microscope Enabled by Machine Learning

Boyuan Huang, Zhenghao Li, Jiangyu Li

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have promised to revolutionize the way we live and work, and one of particularly promising areas for AI is image analysis. Neverth…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Ultrabroadband photosensitivity from visible to terahertz at room temperature

Dong Wu, Y. C. Ma, Y. Y. Niu +9

Charge-density wave (CDW) is one of the most fundamental quantum phenomena in solids. Different from ordinary metals in which only single particle excitations exist, CDW also has c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 45 cited

Quantum anomalous Hall multilayers grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Gaoyuan Jiang, Yang Feng, Weixiong Wu +14

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a quantum Hall effect that occurs without the need of external magnetic field. A system composed of multiple parallel QAH layers is an effect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 43 cited

Flexoelectricity in antiferroelectric ceramics

P. Vales-Castro, Krystian Roleder, Lei Zhao +3

Flexoelectricity (coupling between polarization and strain gradients) is a property of all dielectric materials that has been theoretically known for decades, but it is only relati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

First-principles calculation of optical responses based on nonorthogonal localized orbitals

Chong Wang, Sibo Zhao, Xiaomi Guo +4

Based on ab initio software packages using nonorthogonal localized orbitals, we develop a general scheme of calculating response functions. We test the performance of this method b…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 16 cited

The role of interstitial hydrogen in SrCoO antiferromagnetic insulator

Li Liang, Shuang Qiao, Shunhong Zhang +2

Hydrogen exhibits qualitatively different charge states depending on the host material, as nicely explained by the state-of-the-art impurity-state calculation. Motivated by a recen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 26 cited

Widely tunable band gap in a multivalley semiconductor SnSe by potassium doping

Kenan Zhang, Ke Deng, Jiaheng Li +6

SnSe, a group IV-VI monochalcogenide with layered crystal structure similar to black phosphorus, has recently attracted extensive interests due to its excellent thermoelectric prop…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 44 cited

Electronic nature of coverage-dependent nanosurface effect by cooperative orbital redistribution

Guolei Xiang, Yan Tang, Zigeng Liu +6

Nanomaterial surface states can effectively modify or even dominate their physical and chemical properties due to large surface-to-volume ratios. Such surface effects are highly de…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 106 cited

Spin-orbit torque in completely compensated synthetic antiferromagnet

P. X. Zhang, L. Y. Liao, G. Y. Shi +5

Synthetic antiferromagnets (SAF) have been proposed to replace ferromagnets in magnetic memory devices to reduce the stray field, increase the storage density and improve the therm…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 38 cited

Optical control of magnetism in NiFe/VO2 heterostructures

Guodong Wei, Xiaoyang Lin, Zhizhong Si +9

Optical methods for magnetism manipulation have been considered as a promising strategy for ultralow-power and ultrahigh-speed spin switches, which becomes a hot spot in the field…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 52 cited

Realizing intrinsic excitonic insulator by decoupling exciton binding energy from the minimum band gap

Zeyu Jiang, Yuanchang Li, Shengbai Zhang +1

Direct-gap materials hold promises for excitonic insulator. In contrast to indirect-gap materials, here the difficulty to distinguish from a Peierls charge density wave is circumve…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 84 cited

Direct evidence of ferromagnetism in a quantum anomalous Hall system

Wenbo Wang, Yunbo Ou, Chang Liu +4

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) systems are of great fundamental interest and potential application because of their dissipationless conduction without the need for external magnetic…