Probing van der Waals magnetic surface and interface via circularly polarized X-rays

W Zhang, Q Fu, J Li, B Lian, Y **a, L Zhou… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Advances in research of magnetic two-dimensional van der Waals (2D vdW) materials have
opened up new opportunities in miniaturization of spintronic devices at the atomically thin …

Dominance of Extrinsic Scattering Mechanisms in the Orbital Hall Effect: Graphene, Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, and Topological Antiferromagnets

H Liu, D Culcer - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The theory of the orbital Hall effect (OHE), a transverse flow of orbital angular momentum
(OAM) in response to an electric field, has concentrated on intrinsic mechanisms. Here …

Progress and challenges for two-dimensional spin-polarized quantum materials

G Zhang, H Wu, W **, L Yang, B **ao, J Yu… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2024 - cell.com
The physical descriptions of known materials are based on quantum mechanics, which
describes how atoms bond and electrons interact at a fundamental level. However, there is …

Ferromagnetic ferroelectricity due to the Kugel-Khomskii mechanism of orbital ordering assisted by atomic Hund's second rule effects

IV Solovyev, R Ono, SA Nikolaev - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The exchange interactions in insulators depend on the orbital state of magnetic ions,
obeying certain phenomenological principles, known as Goodenough-Kanamori-Anderson …

Understanding the Ising zigzag antiferromagnetism of and monolayers

K Yang, Y Ning, Y Zhou, D Lu, Y Ma, L Liu, S Pu, H Wu - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Transition metal phosphorous trichalcogenides represent a class of van der Waals magnetic
materials ideal for exploring two-dimensional magnetism. This study investigates the spin …

Effect of Hubbard U-corrections on the electronic and magnetic properties of 2D materials: a high-throughput study

S Pakdel, T Olsen, KS Thygesen - npj Computational Materials, 2025 - nature.com
We conduct a systematic investigation of the role of Hubbard U corrections in electronic
structure calculations of two-dimensional (2D) materials containing 3 d transition metals …

Anisotropic hybridization probed by polarization dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy in VI3 van der Waals Mott ferromagnet

R Sant, A De Vita, V Polewczyk… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Polarization dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy was used to study the magnetic
ground state and the orbital occupation in bulk-phase VI 3 van der Waals crystals below and …

Lattice and magnetic structure in the van der Waals antiferromagnet

Y Gu, Y Hao, Z Kao, Y Gu, F Liu, S Zheng, H Cao, L He… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We report a comprehensive investigation of the lattice and magnetic structure in van der
Waals antiferromagnet VBr 3, characterized by a BiI 3-type structure at room temperature …

Evidence of Temperature-Dependent Interplay between Spin and Orbital Moment in van der Waals Ferromagnet VI3

A De Vita, R Sant, V Polewczyk, G van der Laan… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
van der Waals materials provide a versatile toolbox for the emergence of new quantum
phenomena and fabrication of functional heterostructures. Among them, the trihalide VI3 …

Polaronic and Mott insulating phase of layered magnetic vanadium trihalide

D Mastrippolito, L Camerano, H Świątek, B Šmíd… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnetic 3 d-transition metal trihalides are a
new class of functional materials showing exotic physical properties useful for spintronic and …