3 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026
Polar Topologies in a Ferroelastic Metal Membrane
Rahil Haria, Noah Schnitzer, T. Ben Britton +10
Polar metals, materials in which electric polarisation and metallicity coexist, are exceptionally rare because itinerant electrons screen long-range dipoles and favour centrosymmet…
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…
quant-ph2025
Revisiting intrinsic spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride with r2SCAN
Petros-Panagis Filippatos, Tom J. P. Irons, Katherine Inzani
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a wide band gap, van der Waals material that is highly promising for solid-state quantum technologies as a host of optically addressable, paramagne…