3 papers
cond-mat.str-el2026
Structures of group-15 elemental solids from an effective boundary theory
Ashland Knowles, R. Ganesh
We present an effective description for the crystal structures of pnictogen elemental solids. In these materials, each atom contains three valence electrons in orbitals. They a…
cond-mat.str-el2025
Trivalent network model for d transition metal dichalcogenides in the 1T structure: Holography from local constraints
Ashland Knowles, R. Ganesh
Dimer models are well known as prototypes for locally constrained physics. They describe systems in which every site on a lattice must be attached to one dimer. Loop models are an…
cond-mat.str-el2025
Quantum loops in the 1T transition metal dichalcogenides
Ashland Knowles, G. Baskaran, R. Ganesh
Loop arrangements and their quantum superpositions describe several interesting many-particle states. We propose that they also describe bonding in a class of transition metal dich…