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7 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Deep Spin Defects in Zinc Oxide for High-Fidelity Single-Shot Readout

Shimin Zhang, Taejoon Park, Erik Perez +10

Wide-bandgap oxides such as ZnO are favorable hosts for spin defect qubits due to their dilute nuclear spin background and potential for ultra-high purity. Yet, a deep-level defect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Reducing Self-Interaction Error in Transition-Metal Oxides with Different Exact-Exchange Fractions for Energy and Density

Harshan Reddy Gopidi, Ruiqi Zhang, Yanyong Wang +5

Density functional theory (DFT) in chemistry and materials science aims for "chemical accuracy," but this goal is challenged by the need to approximate the exact exchange-correlati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

How Semilocal Are Semilocal Density Functional Approximations? -Tackling Self-Interaction Error in One-Electron Systems

Akilan Ramasamy, Lin Hou, Jorge Vega Bazantes +4

Self-interaction error (SIE), arising from the imperfect cancellation of the spurious classical Coulomb interaction between an electron and itself, is a persistent challenge in mod…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Rotational Phonons Drive Low-Energy Kinks in Cuprate Superconductors

Yanyong Wang, Manuel Engel, Christopher Lane +9

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) reveals ubiquitous quasiparticle ``kinks'' near 70 meV and 40 meV across cuprate superconductors, often accompanied by…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Magnetism-Enhanced Strong Electron-Phonon Coupling in Infinite-Layer Nickelate

Ruiqi Zhang, Yanyong Wang, Manuel Engel +12

Intriguing analogies between the nickelates and the cuprates provide a promising avenue for unraveling the microscopic mechanisms underlying high- superconductivity. While ele…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Advances and challenges of SCAN and r2SCAN density functionals in transition-metal compounds

Yubo Zhang, Akilan Ramasamy, Kanun Pokharel +4

Transition-metal compounds (TMCs) with open-shell d-electrons are characterized by a complex interplay of lattice, charge, orbital, and spin degrees of freedom, giving rise to a di…