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most citedFlat band separation and robust spin-Berry curvature in bilayer kagome metals

64 citations · 189 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Rashba engineering at van der Waals interfaces

Rahul Sharma, Soumya Mukherjee, Fatima Ibrahim +26

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) interfaces offer a versatile platform for studying emergent quantum phenomena and enabling novel device functionalities. When…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Valence Modifications in Hygroscopic VI3 Degraded Crystals via Soft X-Ray Synchrotron Radiation

A. De Vita, V. Polewczyk, G. Panaccione +1

Among van der Waals crystals, transition metal trihalide VI3 has driven attention for its magnetic and orbital properties. However, its chemical instability under ambient condition…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Anomalous spin-optical helical effect in Ti-based kagome metal

Federico Mazzola, Wojciech Brzezicki, Chiara Bigi +32

The kagome lattice stands as a rich platform for hosting a wide array of correlated quantum phenomena, ranging from charge density waves and superconductivity to electron nematicit…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 2 cited

Robust spin splitting and fermiology in a layered altermagnet

Alessandro De Vita, Chiara Bigi, Davide Romanin +42

Altermagnetism defies conventional classifications of collinear magnetic phases, standing apart from ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism with its unique combination of spin-depen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Thermal treatment effects on PMN-0.4PT/Fe multiferroic heterostructures

Deepak Dagur, Alice Margherita Finardi, Vincent Polewczyk +10

Multiferroic heterostructures have gained in recent years a renewed role in spintronic applications due to their possibility in controlling the magnetic properties via interfacial…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 6 cited

Uncovering the lowest thickness limit for room-temperature ferromagnetism of CrTe

Sandeep Kumar Chaluvadi, Shyni Punathum Chalil, Anupam Jana +14

Metallic ferromagnetic transition metal dichalcogenides have emerged as important building blocks for scalable magnonics and memory applications. Downscaling such systems to the ul…

physics.app-ph2024★ 9 cited

Laser patterning of magnonic structure via local crystallization of Yittrium Iron Garnet

A. Del Giacco, F. Maspero, V. Levati +15

The fabrication and integration of high-quality structures of Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) is critical for magnonics.Films with excellent properties are obtained only on single crysta…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 3 cited

Evidence of temperature-dependent interplay between spin and orbital moment in van der Waals ferromagnet VI3

A. De Vita, R. Sant, V. Polewczyk +7

Van der Waals materials provide a versatile toolbox for the emergence of new quantum phenomena and the fabrication of functional heterostructures. Among them, the trihalide VI3 sta…

physics.optics2023★ 9 cited

Multidetection scheme for transient-grating-based spectroscopy

M. Brioschi, P. Carrara, V. Polewczyk +7

Time-resolved optical spectroscopy represents an effective non-invasive approach to investigate the interplay of different degrees of freedom, which plays a key role in the develop…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 4 cited

The electronic structure of intertwined kagome, honeycomb, and triangular sublattices of the intermetallics MCoAl

Chiara Bigi, Sahar Pakdel, Michał J. Winiarski +10

Intermetallics are an important playground to stabilize a large variety of physical phenomena, arising from their complex crystal structure. The ease of their chemical tuneabilty m…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 64 cited

Flat band separation and robust spin-Berry curvature in bilayer kagome metals

Domenico Di Sante, Chiara Bigi, Philipp Eck +16

Kagome materials have emerged as a setting for emergent electronic phenomena that encompass different aspects of symmetry and topology. It is debated whether the XVSn kagom…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 6 cited

Anisotropic hybridization probed by polarization dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy in VI3 van der Waals Mott ferromagnet

R. Sant, A. De Vita, V. Polewczyk +6

Polarization dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy was used to study the magnetic ground state and the orbital occupation in bulk-phase VI van der Waals crystals below and ab…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Unveiling the electronic structure of pseudo-tetragonal WO thin films

F. Mazzola, H. Hassani, D. Amoroso +11

WO is a binary 5d compound which has attracted remarkable attention due to the vast array of structural transitions that it undergoes in its bulk form. In the bulk, a wide rang…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Artificial ageing of thin films of the indium-free transparent conducting oxide SrVO3

M. Rath, M. Mezhoud, O. El Khaloufi +11

SrVO3 (SVO) is a prospective candidate to replace the conventional indium-tin-oxide (ITO) among the new transparent conducting oxide (TCO) generation. In this study, the structural…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 12 cited

Covalency, correlations, and inter-layer interactions governing the magnetic and electronic structure of MnSiTe

Chiara Bigi, Lei Qiao, Chao Liu +16

MnSiTe is a rare example of a layered ferrimagnet. It has recently been shown to host a colossal angular magnetoresistance as the spin orientation is rotated from the i…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 31 cited

Dynamics and Resilience of the Charge Density Wave in a bilayer kagome metal

Manuel Tuniz, Armando Consiglio, Denny Puntel +22

Long-range electronic order descending from a metallic parent state constitutes a rich playground to study the intricate interplay of structural and electronic degrees of freedom.…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 15 cited

Disentangling structural and electronic properties in VO thin films: a genuine non-symmetry breaking Mott transition

Federico Mazzola, Sandeep Kumar Chaluvadi, Vincent Polewczyk +10

Phase transitions are key in determining and controlling the quantum properties of correlated materials. Here, by using the powerful combination of precise material synthesis and a…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 26 cited

The planar triangular magnet AgCrSe: magnetic frustration, short range correlations, and field tuned anisotropic cycloidal magnetic order

M. Baenitz, M. M. Piva, S. Luther +25

Our studies evidence an anisotropic magnetic order below ~K. Susceptibility data in small fields of about 1~T reveal an antiferromagnetic (AFM) order for , whe…