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most citedTwisted Magnetic Van der Waals Bilayers: An Ideal Platform for Altermagnetism

162 citations · 340 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Complete Hierarchy of Nonrelativistic Odd-Parity Spin Splitting in Collinear Magnets

Yichen Liu, Junxi Yu, Pu Zhang +1

Momentum-dependent nonrelativistic spin splitting provides a symmetry fingerprint of collinear magnets and can govern unconventional electronic, magnonic, and transport phenomena.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Odd-Parity Magnons

Pu Zhang, Sun-Bo Xie, Junxi Yu +2

Magnons, as charge-neutral spin excitations, can transport spin information without Joule heating and therefore offer a promising platform for low-power spintronics. However, in co…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Linearly Polarized Light-Induced Anomalous Hall Effect and Topological Phase Transitions in an Altermagnetic Topological Insulator

Yichen Liu, Tongshuai Zhu, Haijun Zhang

A recently identified class of collinear magnetic order, characterized by vanishing net magnetization yet unconventional spin splitting, known as altermagnets (AMs), has attracted…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Spontaneous Fully Compensated Ferrimagnetism

Bingbing Wang, Yongpan Li, Yichen Liu +1

We propose a general mechanism for the spontaneous emergence of filling-enforced fully compensated ferrimagnetism (fFIM), characterized by zero net magnetization yet ferromagnetic-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Antiferroaxial altermagnetism

Yichen Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu

The antiferroaxial state is emerging as an important ferroic order in condensed matter systems. Here, we establish antiferroaxial altermagnetism as a broadly prevalent, generic, an…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 2 cited

MoireStudio: A Universal Twisted Electronic Structure Calculation Package

Junxi Yu, Yichen Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu

Twistronics is an emerging and captivating field in condensed matter physics and material science. However, accurately and efficiently calculating the electronic structures of twis…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Unconventional Magneto-Optical Effects in Altermagnets

Yongpan Li, Yichen Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu

The ideal altermagnets are a class of collinear, crystal-symmetry-enforced fully compensated magnets with nonrelativistic spin-split bands, in which contributions from Berry curvat…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Tunable Topological Superconductivity by Fully Compensated Ferrimagnets

Yu-Xuan Li, Yicheng Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu

We propose a platform based on a fully compensated ferrimagnet (fFIM) for realizing and controlling topological superconductivity with Majorana bound states across multiple dimensi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Quantum metric-induced generalized magneto-optical effects in -symmetric antiferromagnets

Yongpan Li, Yichen Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu

The magneto-optical effects (MOEs), as fundamental physical phenomena, can reveal the electronic structures of materials. The related probing methods are widely used in the study o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 91 cited

Two-dimensional fully-compensated Ferrimagnetism

Yichen Liu, San-Dong Guo, Yongpan Li +1

Antiferromagnetic spintronics has long been a subject of intense research interest, and the recent introduction of altermagnetism has further ignited enthusiasm in the field. Howev…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Crossed real nodal-line phonons in gold monobromide

Yilin Han, Yichen Liu, Chaoxi Cui +2

Spacetime inversion symmetry can generate intriguing types of spinless excitations in crystalline materials. Here, we propose a topological phase protected by spacetime inversion s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Valley polarization in twisted altermagnetism

San-Dong Guo, Yichen Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu

The combination of altermagnetism, twistronics and valleytronics is of great significance for potential applications in advanced electronic devices. Twisted magnetic van der Waals…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 83 cited

Creation and Manipulation of Higher-Order Topological States by Altermagnets

Yu-Xuan Li, Yichen Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu

We propose to implement tunable higher-order topological states in a heterojunction consisting of a two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator and the recently discovered altermagn…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 162 cited

Twisted Magnetic Van der Waals Bilayers: An Ideal Platform for Altermagnetism

Yichen Liu, Junxi Yu, Cheng-Cheng Liu

We introduce a universal methodology for generating and manipulating altermagnetism in two-dimensional (2D) magnetic van der Waals (MvdW) materials through twisting. We find that a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Design monolayer iodinenes based on halogen bond and tiling theory

Kejun Yu, Botao Fu, Runwu Zhang +5

Xenes, two-dimensional (2D) monolayers composed of a single element, with graphene as a typical representative, have attracted widespread attention. Most of the previous Xenes, X f…