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most citedEvidence for a Monolayer Excitonic Insulator

178 citations · 1.1k across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Anomalous Superconductivity in Twisted MoTe2 Nanojunctions

Yanyu Jia, Tiancheng Song, Zhaoyi Joy Zheng +14

Introducing superconductivity in topological materials can lead to innovative electronic phases and device functionalities. Here, we present a new strategy for quantum engineering…

physics.app-ph2023

Gd-Based Solvated Shells for Defect Passivation of CsPbBr Nanoplatelets Enabling Efficient Color-Saturated Blue Electroluminescence

Haoran Wang, Jingyu Qian, Jiayun Sun +7

Reduced-dimensional CsPbBr nanoplatelets (NPLs) are promising candidates for color-saturated blue emitters, yet their electroluminescence performance is hampered by non-radiati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Real-space and reciprocal-space topology in the Eu(GaAl) square net system

Jaime M. Moya, Jianwei Huang, Shiming Lei +5

Magnetotransport measurements on the centrosymetric square-net Eu(GaAl) compounds reveal evidence for both reciprocal- and real-space topology. For compositions $0.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Ultrafast Dynamics of the Topological Semimetal GdSbTe In the Presence and Absence of a Charge Density Wave

Robert J. Kirby, Angela Montanaro, Francesca Giusti +8

Time-resolved dynamics in charge-density-wave materials have revealed interesting out-of-equilibrium electronic responses. However these are typically only performed in a single ma…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 29 cited

Kramers nodal lines and Weyl fermions in SmAlSi

Yichen Zhang, Yuxiang Gao, Xue-Jian Gao +16

Kramers nodal lines (KNLs) have recently been proposed theoretically as a special type of Weyl line degeneracy connecting time-reversal invariant momenta. KNLs are robust to spin o…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 25 cited

Charge density wave-generated Fermi surfaces in NdTe

Alla Chikina, Henriette Lund, Marco Bianchi +7

The electronic structure of NdTe in the charge density wave phase (CDW) is investigated by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The combination of high-quality crystals a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 16 cited

Weyl nodal ring states and Landau quantization with very large magnetoresistance in square-net magnet EuGa

Shiming Lei, Kevin Allen, Jianwei Huang +17

Magnetic topological semimetals (TSMs) allow for an effective control of the topological electronic states by tuning the spin configuration, and therefore are promising materials f…

cond-mat.supr-con2022

Eavesdropping on competing condensates by the edge supercurrent in a Weyl superconductor

Stephan Kim, Shiming Lei, Leslie M. Schoop +2

In a topological insulator the metallic surface states are easily distinguished from the insulating bulk states (FuKane07). By contrast, in a topological superconductor (FuKane08,Q…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 7 cited

Phase tuning of multiple Andreev reflections of Dirac fermions and the Josephson supercurrent in Al-MoTe2-Al junctions

Zheyi Zhu, Stephan Kim, Shiming Lei +3

When a normal metal is sandwiched between two superconductors, the energy gaps in the latter act as walls that confine electrons in in a square-well potential. If the volta…

physics.optics2021★ 61 cited

Axial Higgs Mode Detected by Quantum Pathway Interference in RTe3

Yiping Wang, Ioannis Petrides, Grant McNamara +11

The observation of the Higgs boson solidified the standard model of particle physics. However, explanations of anomalies (e.g. dark matter) rely on further symmetry breaking callin…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 45 cited

Incommensurate magnetic orders and topological Hall effect in the square-net centrosymmetric EuGaAl system

Jaime M. Moya, Shiming Lei, Eleanor M. Clements +16

Neutron diffraction on the centrosymmetric square-net magnet EuGaAl reveals multiple incommensurate magnetic states (AFM1,2,3) in zero field. In applied field, a new magnet…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 125 cited

One-Dimensional Luttinger Liquids in a Two-Dimensional Moiré Lattice

Pengjie Wang, Guo Yu, Yves H. Kwan +13

The Luttinger liquid (LL) model of one-dimensional (1D) electronic systems provides a powerful tool for understanding strongly correlated physics including phenomena such as spin-c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 34 cited

Evolving Devil's staircase magnetization from tunable charge density waves in nonsymmorphic Dirac semimetals

Ratnadwip Singha, Tyger H. Salters, Samuel M. L. Teicher +4

While several magnetic topological semimetals have been discovered in recent years, their band structures are far from ideal, often obscured by trivial bands at the Fermi energy. S…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 36 cited

Complex magnetic phases enriched by charge density waves in topological semimetals GdSb_xTe_{2-x-δ}

Shiming Lei, Audrey Saltzman, Leslie M. Schoop

The interplay of crystal symmetry, magnetism, band topology and electronic correlation can be the origin of quantum phase transitions in condensed matter. Particularly, square-latt…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 178 cited

Evidence for a Monolayer Excitonic Insulator

Yanyu Jia, Pengjie Wang, Cheng-Li Chiu +19

The interplay between topology and correlations can generate a variety of quantum phases, many of which remain to be explored. Recent advances have identified monolayer WTe2 as a p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 86 cited

Landau Quantization and Highly Mobile Fermions in an Insulator

Pengjie Wang, Guo Yu, Yanyu Jia +9

In strongly correlated materials, quasiparticle excitations can carry fractional quantum numbers. An intriguing possibility is the formation of fractionalized, charge-neutral fermi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 66 cited

Band Engineering of Dirac Semimetals using Charge Density Waves

Shiming Lei, Samuel M. L. Teicher, Andreas Topp +13

New developments in the field of topological matter are often driven by materials discovery, including novel topological insulators, Dirac semimetals and Weyl semimetals. In the la…

physics.app-ph2020★ 32 cited

A Cleanroom in a Glovebox

Mason J. Gray, Narendra Kumar, Ryan O'Connor +18

The exploration of new materials, novel quantum phases, and devices requires ways to prepare cleaner samples with smaller feature sizes. Initially, this meant the use of a cleanroo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Transient Drude Response Dominates Near-Infrared Pump-Probe Reflectivity in Nodal-Line Semimetals ZrSiS and ZrSiSe

Robert J. Kirby, Austin Ferrenti, Caroline Weinberg +6

The ultrafast optical response of two nodal-line semimetals, ZrSiS and ZrSiSe, was studied in the near-infrared using transient reflectivity. The two materials exhibit similar resp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 157 cited

High mobility in a van der Waals layered antiferromagnetic metal

Shiming Lei, Jingjing Lin, Yanyu Jia +13

Magnetic van der Waals (vdW) materials have been heavily pursued for fundamental physics as well as for device design. Despite the rapid advances, so far magnetic vdW materials are…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 13 cited

Ultrafast quasiparticle dynamics in correlated semimetal CaRuO

Yakun Yuan, Peter Kissin, Danilo Puggioni +7

The correlated polar semimetal CaRuO exhibits a rich phase diagram including two magnetic transitions (=56 K and =48 K) with the appearance of an insulating-l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 158 cited

Topological Semimetals in Square-Net Materials

Sebastian Klemenz, Shiming Lei, Leslie M. Schoop

Many materials crystallize in structure types that feature a square-net of atoms. While these compounds can exhibit many different properties, some members of this family are topol…