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Unconventional Superconductivity in from the Perspective of Symmetry
Guan-Hao Feng, Jun Quan, Yusheng Hou
The recently discovered superconductor has attracted significant attention due to its remarkably high transition temperature () under high press…
Switching intrinsic magnetic skyrmions with controllable magnetic anisotropy in van der Waals multiferroic heterostructures
Ze-quan Wang, Feng Xue, Liang Qiu +3
Magnetic skyrmions, topologically nontrivial whirling spin textures at nanometer scales, have emerged as potential information carriers for spintronic devices. The ability to effic…
Discovery of the high-entropy carbide ceramic topological superconductor candidate (Ti0.2Zr0.2Nb0.2Hf0.2Ta0.2)C
Lingyong Zeng, Zequan Wang, Jing Song +11
High-entropy ceramics (HECs) are solid solutions of inorganic compounds with one or more Wyckoff sites shared by equal or near-equal atomic ratios of multi-principal elements. Mate…
Room-temperature antiferromagnetic CrSe monolayer with tunable metal-insulator transition in ferroelectric heterostructures
Xiao-Sheng Ni, Yue-Yu Zhang, Dao-Xin Yao +1
Recently, there has been a rapidly growing interest in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal chalcogenide monolayers (MLs) due to their unique magnetic and electronic properties. B…
The discovery of three-dimensional Van Hove singularity
Wenbin Wu, Zeping Shi, Mykhaylo Ozerov +20
Arising from the extreme/saddle point in electronic bands, Van Hove singularity (VHS) manifests divergent density of states (DOS) and induces various new states of matter such as u…
Electrically tunable Gilbert damping in van der Waals heterostructures of two-dimensional ferromagnetic metals and ferroelectrics
Liang Qiu, Zequan Wang, Xiao-Sheng Ni +2
Tuning the Gilbert damping of ferromagnetic (FM) metals via a nonvolatile way is of importance to exploit and design next-generation novel spintronic devices. Through systematical…
Coexistence of zigzag antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in compressed NiPSe3
Hualei Sun, Liang Qiu, Yifeng Han +12
NiPSe3 is regarded as a bandwidth-controlled Mott insulator, distinct from the widely studied Mott insulating magnetic graphene MPSe3 (M = Mn and Fe) family. By employing high-pres…
Tunable Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Ferromagnetic van der Waals Heterostructures
Feng Xue, Yusheng Hou, Zhe Wang +5
The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has unique advantages in topotronic applications, but it is still challenging to realize the QAHE with tunable magnetic and topological pro…
Chern insulators and high Curie temperature Dirac half-metal in two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks
Cui-Qun Chen, Xiao-Sheng Ni, Dao-Xin Yao +1
Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials with nontrivial topological states have drawn considerable attention recently. Among them, 2D metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are standing o…
Multifunctional Two-dimensional van der Waals Janus Magnet Cr-based Dichalcogenide Halides
Yusheng Hou, Feng Xue, Liang Qiu +2
Two-dimensional van der Waals Janus materials and their heterostructures offer fertile platforms for designing fascinating functionalities. Here, by means of systematic first-princ…
Origin of the Type-II Weyl state in topological antiferromagnetic YbMnBi2
Xiao-Sheng Ni, Cui-Qun Chen, Dao-Xin Yao +1
Recently, the topological nature of an antiferromagnet YbMnBi2 has been controversial. YbMnBi2 is regarded as a candidate of Type-II Weyl semimetals with magnetic moments of Mn ato…
Various magnetism of the compressed antiferromagnetic topological insulator EuSn2As2
Hualei Sun, Cuiqun Chen, Yusheng Hou +9
We report a comprehensive high-pressure study on the antiferromagnetic topological insulator EuSn2As2 up to 21.1 GPa through measurements of synchrotron x-ray diffraction, electric…
Nanodevices engineering and spin transport properties of MnBi2Te4 monolayer
Yipeng An, Kun Wang, Shijing Gong +9
Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials are essential for the development of the next-generation spintronic technologies. Recently, layered van der Waals (vdW) compound MnBi2Te4 (M…
Multifunctional Lateral Transition-Metal Disulfides Heterojunctions
Yipeng An, Yusheng Hou, Kun Wang +7
The intrinsic spin-dependent transport properties of two types of lateral VS2|MoS2 heterojunctions are systematically investigated using first-principles calculations, and their va…
Evaluating the exfoliation of two-dimensional materials with a Green's function surface model
Yipeng An, Yusheng Hou, Shijing Gong +6
Previous methods for the evaluation of the exfoliation of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials have drawbacks in computational efficiency and are unable to describe cases with se…
MoB2:a new multifunctional transition metal diboride monolayer
Yipeng An, Shijing Gong, Yusheng Hou +5
Several layered transition metal borides can now be realized by a simple and general fabrication method [Fokwa et al.,Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1704181],inspiring our interest to trans…
First-principles studies of spin-phonon coupling in Cr2Ge2Te6 monolayer
B. H. Zhang, Y. S. Hou, Z. Wang +1
We perform systematic first-principles calculations to investigate the spin-phonon coupling (SPC) of Cr2Ge2Te6 (CGT) monolayer (ML). It is found that the Eg phonon mode at 211.8 cm…
Two-dimensional Ferromagnetic van der Waals CrX3 (X=Cl, Br, I) Monolayers with Enhanced Anisotropy and Curie Temperature
Feng Xue, Yusheng Hou, Zhe Wang +1
Among the recently widely studied van der Waals layered magnets CrX3 (X=Cl, Br, I), CrCl3 monolayer (ML) is particularly puzzling as it is solely shown by experiments to have an in…
Unveiling the Electric-current-limiting and Photodetection Effect in Two-dimensional Hydrogenated Borophene
Yipeng An, Yusheng Hou, Hui Wang +5
The electronic transport and photoelectric properties of hydrogenated borophene B4H4, which was realized in a recent experiment by Nishino [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 13761 (2017)], ar…
Multifunctional 2D CuSe monolayer nanodevice
Yipeng An, Yusheng Hou, Hui Wang +5
In a very recent experimental work [Gao et al., 2018 Adv. Mater. 30, 1707055], a graphene-like CuSe monolayer was realized. Motivated by this success, we performed first-principles…
Probing Magnetism in Insulating Cr2Ge2Te6 by Induced Anomalous Hall Effect in Pt
Mark Lohmann, Tang Su, Ben Niu +10
Two-dimensional ferromagnet Cr2Ge2Te6 (CGT) is so resistive below its Curie temperature that probing its magnetism by electrical transport becomes extremely difficult. By forming h…
Strongly Enhanced Gilbert Damping in 3d Transition Metal Ferromagnet Monolayers in Contact with Topological Insulator Bi2Se3
Y. S. Hou, R. Q. Wu
Engineering Gilbert damping of ferromagnetic metal films is of great importance to exploit and design spintronic devices that are operated with an ultrahigh speed. Based on scatter…
Axion Insulator State with ferromagnetic ordering in CrI3/Bi2Se3/MnBi2Se4 Heterostructure
Y. S. Hou, R. Q. Wu
Realizing axion insulator state with a uniform magnetization considerably facilitates experimental explorations of the intriguing topological magnetoelectric effect, a hallmark of…
Negative differential conductance effect and electrical anisotropy of 2D ZrB2 monolayers
Yipeng An, Jutao Jiao, Yusheng Hou +6
Two-dimensional (2D) metal-diboride ZrB2 monolayers was predicted theoretically as a stable new electronic material [A. Lopez-Bezanilla, Phys. Rev. Mater., 2018, 2, 011002 (R)]. He…