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most citedMicroscopic origin of magnetism in monolayer transition metal dihalides

59 citations · 237 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Quetzalcoatlite as a Disorder-Free Platform for Chiral Magnetism and Frustration

Aleksandar Razpopov, P. Peter Stavropoulos, Michael R. Norman +2

The natural mineral quetzalcoatlite ZnCu(TeO)(OH) (AgPbCl) is a structurally ideal kagome magnet, providing a platform for exploring th…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Accessing Few-Layer CrI Magnetoelasticity Through Bulk Single Crystals

J. Arneth, M. Möller, D. A. S. Kaib +9

The persistence of ferromagnetic long-range order in monolayers of the van der Waals semiconductor CrI opens new routes for spintronic applications based on two-dimensional qua…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Ab Initio Investigation of Pressure Effects in the Spin-Liquid Candidate Y-Kapellasite

Federico Abbruciati, Aleksandar Razpopov, Joao Elias F. S. Rodrigues +5

Motivated by recent experiments showing pressure-induced suppression of magnetic order and the emergence of a dynamical ground state in the anisotropic kagome antiferromagnet Y-kap…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Bobkingite, a new coupled sawtooth chain platform

P. Peter Stavropoulos, Aleksandar Razpopov, Harrison LaBollita +3

We investigate the mineral bobkingite, \ce{Cu5(OH)8Cl2(H2O)2}, as a potential realization of the sawtooth chain. Using \textit{ab initio} methods, we estimate the magnetic exchange…

cond-mat.str-el2025

-RuCl intercalated into graphite: a new three-dimensional platform for exotic quantum phases

Aleksandar Razpopov, Shirin Mozaffari, Takahiro Matsuoka +5

Multilayer graphene with different stacking sequences has emerged as a powerful setting for correlated and topological phases. In parallel, progress in graphene heterostructures wi…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 1 cited

Phonon spectrum in the spin-Peierls phase of CuGeO

L. Spitz, A. Razpopov, S. Biswas +10

CuGeO has long been studied as a prototypical example of the spin-Peierls transition in a Heisenberg chain. Despite intensive investigation of this quasi-one-dimensio…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 4 cited

Microscopic origin of the magnetic interactions and their experimental signatures in altermagnetic LaOMnSe

Laura Garcia-Gassull, Aleksandar Razpopov, Panagiotis Peter Stavropoulos +2

Altermagnets (AM) are a recently introduced type of magnets, with no net magnetization like antiferromagnets, but displaying a non-relativistic Zeeman splitting in reciprocal space…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 23 cited

Altermagnetic splitting of magnons in hematite (-FeO)

Rhea Hoyer, P. Peter Stavropoulos, Aleksandar Razpopov +3

We develop a four-sublattice spin-wave theory for the -wave altermagnet candidate hematite (-FeO), considering both its easy-axis phase below and its weak ferromagnet…

cond-mat.str-el2024

study of highly tunable charge transfer in -RuCl/graphene heterostructures

Aleksandar Razpopov, Roser Valentí

Heterostructures of graphene in proximity to magnetic insulators open the possibility to investigate exotic states emerging from the interplay of magnetism, strain and charge trans…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 3 cited

Exfoliation and Optical Properties of S=1 Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet NiGaS

Jazzmin Victorin, Aleksandar Razpopov, Tomoya Higo +5

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials have been an exciting area of research ever since scientists first isolated a single layer of graphene. Single layer magnetic mat…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 9 cited

Growth of self-integrated atomic quantum wires and junctions of a Mott semiconductor

Tomoya Asaba, Lang Peng, Takahiro Ono +13

Continued advances in quantum technologies rely on producing nanometer-scale wires. Although several state-of-the-art nanolithographic technologies and bottom-up synthesis processe…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 24 cited

A Kitaev material on the triangular lattice: The case of NaRuO

Aleksandar Razpopov, David A. S. Kaib, Steffen Backes +5

Motivated by recent reports of a quantum disordered ground state in the triangular lattice compound NaRuO, we derive a magnetic model for this system by means…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 13 cited

Improved effective vertices in the multi-orbital Two-Particle Self-Consistent method from Dynamical Mean-Field Theory

Karim Zantout, Steffen Backes, Aleksandar Razpopov +2

In this work we present a multi-orbital form of the Two-Particle Self-Consistent approach (TPSC), here the effective local and static irreducible interaction vertices are determine…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Combined experimental and theoretical study of hydrostatic (He-gas) pressure effects in -RuCl

B. Wolf, D. A. S. Kaib, A. Razpopov +13

We report a detailed experimental and theoretical study on the effect of hydrostatic pressure on the structural and magnetic aspects of the layered honeycomb antiferromagent -Ru…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 59 cited

Microscopic origin of magnetism in monolayer transition metal dihalides

Kira Riedl, Danila Amoroso, Steffen Backes +7

Motivated by the recent wealth of exotic magnetic phases emerging in two-dimensional frustrated lattices, we investigate the origin of possible magnetism in the monolayer family of…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Multi-Center Magnon Excitations Open the Entire Brillouin Zone to Terahertz Magnetometry of Quantum Magnets

Tobias Biesner, Seulki Roh, Aleksandar Razpopov +14

Due to the small photon momentum, optical spectroscopy commonly probes magnetic excitations only at the center of the Brillouin zone; however, there are ways to override this restr…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 41 cited

Electronic and magnetic properties of the RuX (X=Cl, Br, I) family: Two siblings -- and a cousin?

David A. S. Kaib, Kira Riedl, Aleksandar Razpopov +4

Motivated by recent reports of metallic behavior in the recently synthesized RuI, in contrast to the Mott-insulating nature of the actively discussed -RuCl, as well as R…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 55 cited

Phase diagram of a distorted kagome antiferromagnet and application to Y-kapellasite

Max Hering, Francesco Ferrari, Aleksandar Razpopov +4

We investigate the magnetism of a previously unexplored distorted spin-1/2 kagome model consisting of three symmetry-inequivalent nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic Heisenberg coup…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 5 cited

Giant pressure-enhancement of multiferroicity in CuBr2

J. S. Zhang, Yiqi Xie, X. Q. Liu +16

Type-II multiferroic materials, in which ferroelectric polarization is induced by inversion non-symmetric magnetic order, promise new and highly efficient multifunctional applicati…