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most citedControlling bulk conductivity in topological insulators: Key role of anti-site defects

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26 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

The Origin of the Observed Raman Peaks in α-MnTe

Nurul Azam, Syed Mohammad Shahed, Liam T. Schmidt +21

The Raman spectrum of the room-temperature altermagnet -MnTe is reported to contain unassigned peaks at 120(3) cm and 140(3) cm, absent from the predicted phonon s…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 4 cited

Pulling order back from the brink of disorder: Observation of a nodal line spin liquid and fluctuation stabilized order in KIrCl

Qiaochu Wang, Alberto de la Torre, Jose A. Rodriguez-Rivera +8

Competing interactions in frustrated magnets can give rise to highly degenerate ground states from which correlated liquid-like states of matter often emerge. The scaling of this d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 7 cited

Review: Advanced characterization of the spatial variation of moiré heterostructures and moiré excitons

A. de la Torre, D. M. Kennes, E. Malic +1

In this short review, we provide an overview of recent progress in deploying advanced characterization techniques to understand the effects of local inhomogeneities in moiré hetero…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 6 cited

Carrier density crossover and quasiparticle mass enhancement in a doped 5 Mott insulator

Yu-Te Hsu, Andreas Rydh, Maarten Berben +4

High-temperature superconductivity in cuprates emerges upon doping the parent Mott insulator. Robust signatures of the low-doped electronic state include a Hall carrier density tha…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Nanoscale electronic inhomogeneities in 1T-TaS

B. Campbell, J. V. Riffle, A. de la Torre +3

We report a set of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) experiments studying native defects in CVT grown 1T-TaS. Six different sample surfaces from four b…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 15 cited

Dimensionality dependent electronic structure of the exfoliated van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS

M. F. DiScala, D. Staros, A. de la Torre +6

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) was used to measure the local electronic structure in few-layer exfoliated flakes of the van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS. The resu…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 6 cited

On the electronic ground state of two non-magnetic pentavalent honeycomb iridates

A. de la Torre, B. Zager, J. R. Chamorro +6

We investigate the electronic structure of two Ir honeycomb iridates, SrCaIrO and NaIrO, by means of resonant x-ray techniques. We confirm that SrCaIr$_2…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 12 cited

Decoupling of static and dynamic criticality in a driven Mott insulator

A. de la Torre, K. L. Seyler, M. Buchhold +12

Dynamically driven interacting quantum many-body systems have the potential to exhibit properties that defy the laws of equilibrium statistical mechanics. A widely studied model is…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 5 cited

Magnetic order, disorder, and excitations under pressure in the Mott insulator SrIrO

Xiang Li, S. E. Cooper, A. Krishnadas +7

Protected by the interplay of on-site Coulomb interactions and spin-orbit coupling, SrIrO at high pressure is a rare example of a Mott insulator with a paramagnetic ground…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 22 cited

Nearly itinerant electronic groundstate in the intercalated honeycomb iridate AgLiIrO

A. de la Torre, B. Zager, F. Bahrami +9

We use x-ray spectroscopy at Ir L/L absorption edge to study powder samples of the intercalated honeycomb magnet AgLiIrO. Based on x-ray absorption and resonant…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 4 cited

Implications of second harmonic generation for hidden order in SrCuOCl

A. de la Torre, S. Di Matteo, D. Hsieh +1

SrCuOCl (SCOC) is a model undoped cuprate with crystallographic symmetry, and a simple magnetic space group with associated magnetic point group $mmm1…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 37 cited

Anomalous mirror symmetry breaking in a model insulating cuprate SrCuOCl

A. de la Torre, K. L. Seyler, L. Zhao +8

Understanding the complex phase diagram of cuprate superconductors is an outstanding challenge. The most actively studied questions surround the nature of the pseudogap and strange…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 52 cited

Floquet Engineering in Quantum Chains

D. M. Kennes, A. de la Torre, A. Ron +2

We consider a one-dimensional interacting spinless fermion model, which displays the well-known Luttinger liquid (LL) to charge density wave (CDW) transition as a function of the r…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 36 cited

Anisotropic exchange and spin-wave damping in pure and electron-doped SrIrO

Davide Pincini, James G. Vale, Christian Donnerer +6

The collective magnetic excitations in the spin-orbit Mott insulator (SrLa)IrO () were investigated by means of resonant inelastic x-r…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 34 cited

Poor electronic screening in lightly doped Mott insulators observed with scanning tunneling microscopy

Irene Battisti, Vitaliy Fedoseev, Koen M. Bastiaans +4

The effective Mott gap measured by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) in the lightly doped Mott insulator differs greatly from values repor…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 11 cited

Electronic structure of buried LaNiO3 layers in (111)-oriented LaNiO3/LaMnO3 superlattices probed by soft x-ray ARPES

F. Y. Bruno, M. Gibert, S. McKeown Walker +10

Taking advantage of the large electron escape depth of soft x-ray angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy we report electronic structure measurements of (111)-oriented [LaNiO3/La…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 120 cited

Universality of pseudogap and emergent order in lightly doped Mott insulators

Irene Battisti, Koen M. Bastiaans, Vitaly Fedoseev +8

It is widely believed that high-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates emerges from doped Mott insulators. The physics of the parent state seems deceivingly simple: The hopp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 202 cited

Observation of Large Topologically Trivial Fermi-Arcs in the Candidate Type-II Weyl Semimetal WTe2

F. Y. Bruno, A. Tamai, Q. S. Wu +13

We report angle-resolved photoemission experiments resolving the distinct electronic structure of the inequivalent top and bottom (001) surfaces of WTe2. On both surfaces, we ident…

cond-mat.str-el2015★ 226 cited

Tailoring the nature and strength of electron-phonon interactions in the SrTiO(001) two-dimensional electron liquid

Z. Wang, S. McKeown Walker, A. Tamai +20

Surfaces and interfaces offer new possibilities for tailoring the many-body interactions that dominate the electrical and thermal properties of transition metal oxides. Here, we us…

cond-mat.str-el2015★ 171 cited

Collapse of the Mott gap and emergence of a nodal liquid in lightly doped SrIrO

A. de la Torre, S. McKeown Walker, F. Y. Bruno +13

Superconductivity in underdoped cuprates emerges from an unusual electronic state characterised by nodal quasiparticles and an antinodal pseudogap. The relation between this state…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 43 cited

A weakly correlated Fermi liquid state with a small Fermi surface in lightly doped SrIrO

Alberto de la Torre, Emily Claire Hunter, Alaska Subedi +7

We characterize the electron doping evolution of (SrLa)IrO by means of angle-resolved photoemission. Concomitant with the metal insulator transition around…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 111 cited

Control of a two-dimensional electron gas on SrTiO3(111) by atomic oxygen

S. McKeown Walker, A. de la Torre, F. Y. Bruno +7

We report on the formation of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the bare surface of (111) oriented SrTiO3. Angle resolved photoemission experiments reveal highly itinerant c…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 169 cited

Quasiparticle dynamics and spin-orbital texture of the SrTiO3 two-dimensional electron gas

P. D. C. King, S. McKeown Walker, A. Tamai +7

Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) in SrTiO have become model systems for engineering emergent behaviour in complex transition metal oxides. Understanding the collective in…

cond-mat.str-el2013★ 135 cited

Spin-orbit splitting of the Shockley surface state on Cu(111)

A. Tamai, W. Meevasana, P. D. C. King +4

We present angle-resolved photoemission data from Cu(111). Using a focused 6 eV continuous wave laser for photo-excitation, we achieve a high effective momentum resolution enabling…