7 papers
Symmetry-Enforced Dirac Fermions and Structural Metastability in Pentagonal Monolayers of Transition-Metal Ditellurides
Manoj Gadtoula, Clayton Conner, Avinash Sah +2
The recent synthesis of pentagonal PdTe monolayer motivates broader research interests in transition-metal ditellurides whose electronic phases are governed by symmetry and str…
Altermagnetism, Kagome Flat Band, and Weyl Fermion States in Magnetically Intercalated Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Avinash Sah, Ting-Yong Lim, Clayton Conner +5
Altermagnetic (AM) compounds have recently emerged as a promising platform for realizing unconventional quantum phases, enabled by their unique spin-split band structure at zero ne…
Emergent Spin Fluctuation and Structural Metastability in Self-Intercalated CrTe Compounds
Clayton Conner, Ali Sarikhani, Theo Volz +13
Intercalated van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials host unique magnetic properties due to the interplay of competing interlayer and intralayer exchange couplings, which depend on…
Observation of Anomalous Hall Effect in Bulk Single Crystals of n-type Cr-doped SbTe Magnetic Topological Insulator
Ali Sarikhani, Mathew Pollard, Jacob Cook +7
The exploration of topological Dirac surface states is significant in the realms of condensed matter physics and future technological innovations. Among the materials garnering att…
Programmable phase selection between altermagnetic and non-centrosymmetric polymorphs of MnTe on InP via molecular beam epitaxy
An-Hsi Chen, Parul R. Raghuvanshi, Jacob Cook +19
Phase selecting nearly degenerate crystalline polymorphs during epitaxial growth can be challenging yet is critical to targeting physical properties for specific applications. Here…
Moving Protocol of Majorana Corner Modes in a Superconducting 2D Weyl Semimetal Heterostructure
Ching-Kai Chiu, Yueh-Ting Yao, Tay-Rong Chang +1
Second-order topological superconductors host Majorana corner modes (MCMs), which are confined to specific corners of the system. This spatial restriction presents challenges for m…