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Topological edge and corner states in Bi fractals on InSb
R. Canyellas, Chen Liu, R. Arouca +10
Topological materials hosting metallic edges characterized by integer quantized conductivity in an insulating bulk have revolutionized our understanding of transport in matter. The…
Observation of magnetism induced topological edge state in antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi4Te7
HaoKe Xu, Mingqiang Gu, Fucong Fei +16
Breaking time reversal symmetry in a topological insulator may lead to quantum anomalous Hall effect and axion insulator phase. MnBi4Te7 is a recently discovered antiferromagnetic…
Quantum phase transition in magnetic nanographenes on a lead superconductor
Yu Liu, Can Li, Fu-Hua Xue +14
Quantum spins, referred to the spin operator preserved by full SU(2) symmetry in the absence of the magnetic anistropy, have been proposed to host exotic interactions with supercon…
Twisted bilayer zigzag-graphene nanoribbon junctions with tunable edge states
Dongfei Wang, De-Liang Bao, Qi Zheng +14
Stacking two-dimensional layered materials such as graphene and transitional metal dichalcogenides with nonzero interlayer twist angles has recently become attractive because of th…
Catalytic growth of ultralong graphene nanoribbons on insulating substrates
Bosai Lyu, Jiajun Chen, Shuo Lou +22
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with widths of a few nanometres are promising candidates for future nano-electronic applications due to their structurally tunable bandgaps, ultrahigh c…
Topological Defects Induced High-Spin Quartet State in Truxene-Based Molecular Graphenoids
Can Li, Yu Liu, Yufeng Liu +9
Topological defects in graphene materials introduce exotic properties which are absent in their defect-free counterparts with both fundamental importance and technological implicat…
Coexistence of Ferroelectric-like Polarization and Dirac-like Surface State in TaNiTe5
Yunlong Li, Zhao Ran, Chaozhi Huang +20
By combining angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) and first-principles calculations, we have…
Edge Disorder in Bottom-Up Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons: Implications for Magnetism and Quantum Electronic Transport
Michele Pizzochero, Gabriela Borin Barin, Kristiāns Čerņevičs +4
We unveil the nature of the structural disorder in bottom-up zigzag graphene nanoribbons along with its effect on the magnetism and electronic transport on the basis of scanning pr…
Braiding Majorana Zero Mode in An Electrically Controllable Way
Hai-Yang Ma, Dandan Guan, Shiyong Wang +4
To realize the braiding operations of Majorana zero mode in the vortex cores of a topological superconductor (TSC), a novel approach is proposed in this letter to replace the commo…
Designer spin order in diradical nanographenes
Yuqiang Zheng, Can Li, Chengyang Xu +14
The magnetic properties of carbon materials are at present the focus of an intense research effort in physics, chemistry and materials science due to their potential applications i…
Discovery of segmented Fermi surface induced by Cooper pair momentum
Zhen Zhu, Michał Papaj, Xiao-Ang Nie +12
Since the early days of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory, it has been predicted that a sufficiently large supercurrent can close the energy gap in a superconductor and creates gapl…
Strain Tunable Semimetal-Topological-Insulator Transition in Monolayer 1T'-WTe2
Chenxiao Zhao, Mengli Hu, Jin Qin +8
A quantum spin hall insulator(QSHI) is manifested by its conducting edge channels that originate from the nontrivial topology of the insulating bulk states. Monolayer 1T'-WTe2 exhi…
Quantum Electronic Transport Across "Bite" Defects in Graphene Nanoribbons
Michele Pizzochero, Kristiāns Čerņevičs, Gabriela Borin Barin +4
On-surface synthesis has recently emerged as an effective route towards the atomically precise fabrication of graphene nanoribbons of controlled topologies and widths. However, whe…
Combining quantum spin hall effect and superconductivity in few-layer stanene
Chenxiao Zhao, Jin Qin, Bing Xia +7
Stanene was proposed to be a quantum spin hall insulator containing topological edges states and a time reversal invariant topological superconductor hosting helical Majorana edge…
Engineering of robust topological quantum phases in graphene nanoribbons
Oliver Gröning, Shiyong Wang, Xuelin Yao +10
Here we present a flexible strategy to realize robust nanomaterials exhibiting valence electronic structures whose fundamental physics is described by the SSH-Hamiltonian. These so…
On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edge topology
Pascal Ruffieux, Shiyong Wang, Bo Yang +11
Graphene-based nanostructures exhibit a vast range of exciting electronic properties that are absent in extended graphene. For example, quantum confinement in carbon nanotubes and…
Giant edge state splitting at atomically precise zigzag edges
Shiyong Wang, Leopold Talirz, Carlo A. Pignedoli +4
Zigzag edges of graphene nanostructures host localized electronic states that are predicted to be spin-polarized. However, these edge states are highly susceptible to edge roughnes…