4 papers
Coexisting electronic smectic liquid crystal and superconductivity in a Si square-net semimetal
Christopher J. Butler, Toshiya Ikenobe, Ming-Chun Jiang +6
Electronic nematic and smectic liquid crystals are spontaneous symmetry-breaking phases that are seen to precede or coexist with enigmatic unconventional superconducting states in…
Pinalites: Optical properties and Quantum Magnetism of Heteroanionic AMOX Compounds
Daigorou Hirai
Heteroanionic compounds, which contain two or more types of anions, have emerged as a promising class of materials with diverse properties and functionalities. In this paper, I rev…
Superconductivity in High-Entropy Antimonide MPtSb (M = equimolar Ru, Rh, Pd, and Ir)
Daigorou Hirai, Naoto Uematsu, Koh Saitoh +2
The high-entropy concept was applied to the synthesis of transition-metal antimonides, M1-xPtxSb (M = equimolar Ru, Rh, Pd, and Ir). High-entropy antimonide samples crystallized in…
Topological Semimetal KAlGe with Novel Electronic Instability
Toshiya Ikenobe, Takahiro Yamada, Jun-ichi Yamaura +6
Compounds with the anti-PbFCl structure exhibit a variety of electronic instabilities and intriguing physical properties. NaAlSi and NaAlGe are similar topological nodal-line semim…