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Magnetic Weyl semimetal in KMn(AsO) with the minimum number of Weyl points
Simin Nie, Tatsuki Hashimoto, Fritz B. Prinz
The "Hydrogen atom" of magnetic Weyl semimetals, with the minimum number of Weyl points, have received growing attention recently due to the possible presence of Weyl-related pheno…
Tunable Dirac Semimetals with Higher-order Fermi Arcs in Kagome Lattices PdPbX (X = S, Se)
Simin Nie, Jia Chen, Changming Yue +4
Bulk-boundary correspondence has achieved a great success in the identification of topological states. However, this elegant strategy doesn't apply to the Dirac semimetals (DSMs).…
Discovery of Ĉ rotation anomaly in topological crystalline insulator SrPb
Wenhui Fan, Simin Nie, Cuixiang Wang +12
Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are insulating electronic states with nontrivial topology protected by crystalline symmetries. Recently, theory has proposed new classes o…
Spontaneous ferromagnetism induced topological phase transition in EuB6
W. L. Liu, X. Zhang, S. M. Nie +18
The interplay between various symmetries and electronic bands topology is one of the core issues for topological quantum materials. Spontaneous magnetism, which leads to the breaki…
Time-reversal symmetry breaking driven topological phase transition in EuB
Shun-Ye Gao, Sheng Xu, Hang Li +16
The interplay between time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and band topology plays a crucial role in topological states of quantum matter. In time-reversal-invariant (TRI) systems, the inv…
Topological insulators in the NaCaBi family with large SOC gaps
Dexi Shao, Zhaopeng Guo, Xianxin Wu +4
By means of first-principles calculations and crystal structure searching techniques, we predict that a new NaCaBi family crystallized into the ZrBeSi-type structure (\ie $P6_{3}/m…
Observation of quantum spin Hall states in TaPdTe
Xuguang Wang, Daiyu Geng, Dayu Yan +14
Two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTIs), which host the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, are one of the key materials in next-generation spintronic devices. To date, experime…
Quantum Spin Hall Effect in TaMTe (M = Pd, Ni)
Zhaopeng Guo, Dayu Yan, Haohao Sheng +3
Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect with great promise for the potential application in spintronics and quantum computing has attracted extensive research interest from both theoretical…
Application of topological quantum chemistry in electrides
Simin Nie, Yuting Qian, Jiacheng Gao +3
The recently developed theory of topological quantum chemistry (TQC) has built a close connection between band representations in momentum space and orbital characters in real spac…
Observation of topological electronic structure in quasi-1D superconductor TaSe3
Cheng Chen, Aiji Liang, Shuai Liu +21
Topological superconductors (TSCs), with the capability to host Majorana bound states that can lead to non-Abelian statistics and application in quantum computation, have been one…
Multiple mobile excitons manifested as sidebands in quasi-one-dimensional metallic TaSe3
Junzhang Ma, Simin Nie, Xin Gui +22
Charge neutrality and their expected itinerant nature makes excitons potential transmitters of information. However, exciton mobility remains inaccessible to traditional optical ex…
Six-fold Excitations in Electrides
Simin Nie, B. Andrei Bernevig, Zhijun Wang
Due to the lack of full rotational symmetry in condensed matter physics, solids exhibit new excitations beyond Dirac and Weyl fermions, of which the six-fold excitations have attra…
Spontaneous Formation of a Superconductor-Topological Insulator-Normal Metal Layered Heterostructure
Yu-Qi Wang, Xu Wu, Ye-Liang Wang +13
The discovery of graphene has spurred vigorous investigation of 2D materials, revealing a wide range of extraordinary properties and functionalities. 2D heterostructural materials…
High-throughput screening for Weyl Semimetals with S Symmetry
Jiacheng Gao, Yuting Qian, Simin Nie +3
Based on irreducible representations (or symmetry eigenvalues) and compatibility relations, a material can be predicted to be a topological/trivial insulator [satisfying compatibil…
Mapping the Dirac fermions in intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulators (MnBiTe)(BiTe) (n=0, 1)
Zuowei Liang, Mengzhu Shi, Qiang Zhang +7
Topological surface states with intrinsic magnetic ordering in the MnBiTe(BiTe) compounds have been predicted to host rich topological phenomena including quant…
Weyl Semimetals with symmetry
Yuting Qian, Jiacheng Gao, Zhida Song +4
In the time-reversal-breaking centrosymmetric systems, the appearance of Weyl points can be guaranteed by an odd number of all the even/odd parity occupied bands at eight inversion…
Magnetic topological insulator MnBi6Te10 with zero-field ferromagnetic state and gapped Dirac surface states
Shangjie Tian, Shunye Gao, Simin Nie +14
Magnetic topological insulators (TIs) with nontrivial topological electronic structure and broken time-reversal symmetry exhibit various exotic topological quantum phenomena. The r…
Magnetic semimetals and quantized anomalous Hall effect in EuB6
Simin Nie, Yan Sun, Fritz B. Prinz +4
Exploration of the novel relationship between magnetic order and topological semimetals has received enormous interest in a wide range of both fundamental and applied research. Her…
Spin fluctuation induced Weyl semimetal state in the paramagnetic phase of EuCdAs
J. -Z. Ma, S. M. Nie, C. J. Yi +22
Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles can arise in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) in which the energy bands are nondegenerate, resulting from inversion or time-reversal symmetry breakin…
Topological Electronic States in HfRuP Family Superconductors
Yuting Qian, Simin Nie, Changjiang Yi +8
Based on the first-principles calculations and experimental measurements, we report that the hexagonal phase of ternary transition metal pnictides TT'X (T=Zr, Hf; T'=Ru; X=P, As),…
Topological Crystalline Insulators with Rotation Anomaly
Tan Zhang, Changming Yue, Tiantian Zhang +5
Based on first-principles calculations and symmetry-based indicator analysis, we find a class of topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) with rotation anomaly in a family o…
Topological phases in the TaSe3 compound
Simin Nie, Lingyi Xing, Rongying Jin +3
Based on first-principles calculations, we show that stoichiometric TaSe3, synthesized in space group P21/m, belongs to a three-dimensional (3D) strong topological insulator (TI) p…
Topological nodal-line semimetals in ferromagnetic rare-earth-metal monohalides
Simin Nie, Hongming Weng, Fritz B. Prinz
Topological semimetals, extending the topological classification from insulators to metals, have greatly enriched our understanding of topological states in condensed matter. This…
Dirac semimetal in type IV magnetic space group
Guiyuan Hua, Simin Nie, Zhida Song +3
Analogues of the elementary particles, Dirac fermions in condensed matter have received extensive attention for both scientific interest and device applications. In this work, we g…