4 papers
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…
Transport in close-packed solids with stacking defects
C. M. Wilson, R. Ganesh, K. V. Samokhin
Lithium and sodium are the only solids that are known to lose crystalline order upon cooling. The seemingly-disordered low-temperature phase shows signatures of various close-packe…
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…
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…