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Alloyed ReMoS Nanoflakes with Enlarged Interlayer Distances for Hydrogen Evolution
Jing Li, René Hübner, Marielle Deconinck +8
Molybdenum sulfide (MoS) has attracted significant attention due to its great potential as a low-cost and efficient catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Developing a f…
Electrically Controllable Chiral Phonons in Ferroelectric Materials
Hao Chen, Weikang Wu, Kangtai Sun +2
Chiral phonons have attracted increasing attention, as they play important roles in many different systems and processes. However, a method to control phonon chirality by external…
Magnetic Real Chern Insulator in 2D Metal-Organic Frameworks
Xiaoming Zhang, Tingli He, Ying Liu +6
Real Chern insulators have attracted great interest, but so far, their material realization is limited to nonmagnetic crystals and to systems without spin-orbit coupling. Here, we…
Upper bound of a band complex
Si Li, Zeying Zhang, Xukun Feng +5
Band structure for a crystal generally consists of connected components in energy-momentum space, known as band complexes. Here, we explore a fundamental aspect regarding the maxim…
Three-dimensional real Chern insulator in bulk -graphyne
Xu-Tao Zeng, Bin-Bin Liu, Fan Yang +4
The real Chern insulator state, featuring nontrivial real Chern number and second-order boundary modes, has been revealed in a few two-dimensional systems. The concept can be exten…
Control over Berry Curvature Dipole with Electric Field in WTe2
Xing-Guo Ye, Huiying Liu, Peng-Fei Zhu +5
Berry curvature dipole plays an important role in various nonlinear quantum phenomena. However, the maximum symmetry allowed for nonzero Berry curvature dipole in the transport pla…
2D Janus Niobium Oxydihalide NbO: Multifunctional High-Mobility Piezoelectric Semiconductor for Electronics, Photonics and Sustainable Energy Applications
Tong Su, Ching Hua Lee, San-Dong Guo +5
Two-dimensional (2D) niobium oxydihalide NbOI has been recently demonstrated as an excellent in-plane piezoelectric and nonlinear optical materials. Here we show that Janus nio…
Encyclopedia of emergent particles in 528 magnetic layer groups and 394 magnetic rod groups
Zeying Zhang, Weikang Wu, Gui-Bin Liu +3
We present a systematic classification of emergent particles in all 528 magnetic layer groups and 394 magnetic rod groups, which describe two-dimensional and one-dimensional crysta…
Intrinsic ferromagnetic axion states and a single pair of Weyl fermions in the stable-state Mn\emph{X}\emph{B}\emph{T}-family materials
Yan Gao, Weikang Wu, Ben-Chao Gong +6
The intrinsic ferromagnetic (FM) axion insulators and Weyl semimetals (WSMs) with only single pair of Weyl points have drawn intensive attention but so far remain rare and elusive…
Third-order charge transport in a magnetic topological semimetal
Ziming Zhu, Huiying Liu, Yongheng Ge +4
Magnetic topological materials and their physical signatures are a focus of current research. Here, by first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis, we reveal topological se…
Two-dimensional Janus Si dichalcogenides: A first-principles study
San-Dong Guo, Xu-Kun Feng, Yu-Tong Zhu +2
Strong structural asymmetry is actively explored in two-dimensional (2D) materials, because it can give rise to many interesting physical properties. Motivated by the recent synthe…
Triggering superconductivity, semiconducting states, and ternary valley structure in graphene via functionalization with Si-N layers
Luo Yan, Jiaojiao Zhu, Bao-Tian Wang +4
Opening a band gap and realizing static valley control have been long sought after in graphenebased two-dimensional (2D) materials. Motivated by the recent success in synthesizing…
Cataloguing MoSiN and WSiN van der Waals Heterostructures: An Exceptional Material Platform for Excitonic Solar Cell Applications
Che Chen Tho, Chenjiang Yu, Qin Tang +14
Two-dimensional (2D) materials van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) provides a revolutionary route towards high-performance solar energy conversion devices beyond the conventiona…
Monolayer and bilayer PtCl: Energetics, magnetism, and band topology
Yalong Jiao, Xu-Tao Zeng, Cong Chen +3
Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials hosting nontrivial topological states are interesting for fundamental research as well as practical applications. Recently, the topological…
MagneticKP: A package for quickly constructing models of magnetic and non-magnetic crystals
Zeying Zhang, Zhi-Ming Yu, Gui-Bin Liu +3
We propose an efficient algorithm to construct effective Hamiltonians, which is much faster than the previously proposed algorithms. This algor…
Observation of Dimension-Crossover of a Tunable 1D Dirac Fermion in Topological Semimetal NbSiTe
Jing Zhang, Yangyang Lv, Xiaolong Feng +11
Condensed matter systems in low dimensions exhibit emergent physics that does not exist in three dimensions. When electrons are confined to one dimension (1D), some significant ele…
Topological hinge modes in Dirac semimetals
Xu-Tao Zeng, Ziyu Chen, Cong Chen +3
Dirac semimetals (DSMs) are an important class of topological states of matter. Here, focusing on DSMs of band inversion type, we investigate their boundary modes from the effectiv…
Single Pair of Weyl Points in Nonmagnetic Crystals
Xiaotian Wang, Feng Zhou, Zeying Zhang +3
Topological semimetal states having the minimal number, i.e., only a single pair, of Weyl points are desirable for the study of effects associated with chiral topological charges.…
Second-Order Real Nodal-Line Semimetal in Three-Dimensional Graphdiyne
Cong Chen, Xu-Tao Zeng, Ziyu Chen +3
Real topological phases featuring real Chern numbers and second-order boundary modes have been a focus of current research, but finding their material realization remains a challen…
Encyclopedia of emergent particles in type-IV magnetic space groups
Zeying Zhang, Gui-Bin Liu, Zhi-Ming Yu +2
The research on emergent particles in condensed matters has been attracting tremendous interest, and recently it is extended to magnetic systems. Here, we study the emergent partic…
Monolayer RhB4: half-auxeticity and almost ideal spin-orbit Dirac point semimetal
Zhen Gao, Qianqian Wang, Weikang Wu +5
Structural-property relationship, the connection between materials' structures and their properties, is central to the materials research. Especially at reduced dimensions, novel s…
Chiral phonons in a square lattice
Qianqian Wang, Si Li, Jiaojiao Zhu +5
Chiral phonons were initially proposed and further verified experimentally in two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal crystal lattices. Many intriguing features brought about by chiral phon…
Systematic investigation of emergent particles in type-III magnetic space groups
Gui-Bin Liu, Zeying Zhang, Zhi-Ming Yu +2
In three-dimensional (3D) crystals, emergent particles arise when two or multiple bands contact and form degeneracy (band crossing) in the Brillouin zone. Recently a complete class…
Phononic real Chern insulator with protected corner modes in graphynes
Jiaojiao Zhu, Weikang Wu, Jianzhou Zhao +6
Higher-order topological insulators have attracted great research interest recently. Different from conventional topological insulators, higher-order topological insulators do not…