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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 10 cited

Topological Antiferromagnetic Semimetal for Spintronics: A Case Study of a Layered Square Net System EuZnSb

Niraj Aryal, Qiang Li, A. M. Tsvelik +1

We use the first principles and effective Hamiltonian methods to study the electronic structure and magnetic properties of a recently synthesized layered antiferromagnetic square n…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 18 cited

Anomalous Hall effect at the Lifshitz transition in ZrTe5

Pedro M. Lozano, Gabriel Cardoso, Niraj Aryal +5

Zirconium pentatelluride ZrTe5 is a topological semimetal. The presence of a temperature induced Lifshitz transition, in which the Fermi level goes from the conduction band to the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 13 cited

Robust and tunable Weyl phases by coherent infrared phonons in ZrTe

Niraj Aryal, Xilian Jin, Qiang Li +3

Ultrafast optical control of the structural and electronic properties of various quantum materials has recently sparked great interest. In particular, photoinduced quantum phase tr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 18 cited

Two-orbital degeneracy lifted state as a local precursor to a metal-insulator transition

Long Yang, Robert J. Koch, Hong Zheng +5

The recent discovery of a local fluctuating t2g orbital-degeneracy-lifted (ODL) state in CuIr2S4 as a high temperature precursor to the metal-insulator transition (MIT) opens the d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 31 cited

Topological phase transition and phonon-space Dirac topology surfaces in ZrTe

Niraj Aryal, Xilian Jin, Q. Li +2

We use first-principles methods to reveal that in ZrTe, a layered van der Waals material like graphite, atomic displacements corresponding to five of the six zone-center A…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 9 cited

Concurrent probing of electron-lattice dephasing induced by photoexcitation in 1T-TaSeTe using ultrafast electron diffraction

Jun Li, Junjie Li, Kai Sun +12

It has been technically challenging to concurrently probe the electrons and the lattices in materials during non-equilibrium processes, allowing their correlations to be determined…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 29 cited

Magnetic-field control of topological electronic response near room temperature in correlated Kagome magnets

Yangmu Li, Qi Wang, Lisa DeBeer-Schmitt +13

Strongly correlated Kagome magnets are promising candidates for achieving controllable topological devices owing to the rich interplay between inherent Dirac fermions and correlati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 3 cited

Ultrafast decoupling of atomic sublattices in a charge-density-wave material

Jun Li, Junjie Li, Kai Sun +12

Atomic rearrangements within crystals lie at the foundation of electron-phonon-coupled phenomena such as metal-insulator transition and superconductivity. Advanced laser-pump-probe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 63 cited

Local orbital degeneracy lifting as a precursor to an orbital-selective Peierls transition

E. S. Bozin, W. G. Yin, R. J. Koch +7

Fundamental electronic principles underlying all transition metal compounds are the symmetry and filling of the -electron orbitals and the influence of this filling on structura…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 35 cited

Giant switchable Rashba effect in oxide heterostructures

Zhicheng Zhong, Liang Si, Qinfang Zhang +3

One of the most fundamental phenomena and a reminder of the electron's relativistic nature is the Rashba spin splitting for broken inversion symmetry. Usually this splitting is a t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 18 cited

Probing single magnon excitations in SrIrO using O -edge resonant inelastic X-ray scattering

X. Liu, M. P. M. Dean, J. Liu +8

Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at the -edge of transition metal elements is now commonly used to probe single magnon excitations. Here we show that single magnon exc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 22 cited

Local Structural Evidence for Strong Electronic Correlations in LiRhO Spinel

K. R. Knox, A. M. M. Abeykoon, H. Zheng +5

The local structure of the spinel LiRhO has been studied using atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of powder x-ray diffraction data. This measurement is sensit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2003★ 10 cited

Molecular dynamics simulation of the order-disorder phase transition in solid NaNO

Wei-Guo Yin, C. -G. Duan, W. N. Mei +3

We present molecular dynamics simulations of solid NaNO using pair potentials with the rigid-ion model. The crystal potential surface is calculated by using an \emph{a priori}…