Neutron Capture on the -Process Branching Point via Time-of-Flight and Activation

C Guerrero, J Lerendegui-Marco, M Paul, M Tessler… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
The neutron capture cross sections of several unstable nuclides acting as branching points
in the s process are crucial for stellar nucleosynthesis studies. The unstable Tm 171 (t 1/2 …

Phonon softening near topological phase transitions

S Yue, B Deng, Y Liu, Y Quan, R Yang, B Liao - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Topological phase transitions occur when the electronic bands change their topological
properties, typically featuring the closing of the band gap. While the influence of topological …

Distinguishing the gapped and Weyl semimetal scenario in : Insights from an effective two-band model

Z Rukelj, CC Homes, M Orlita, A Akrap - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Here we study the static and dynamic transport properties of a low-energy two-band model
proposed previously in Martino et al.[PRL 122, 217402 (2019) PRLTAO 0031-9007 …

High-harmonic generation in semi-Dirac and Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry: Exploring merging of Weyl nodes

L Medic, J Mravlje, A Ramšak, T Rejec - arxiv preprint arxiv:2402.12899, 2024 - arxiv.org
We explore anomalous high-harmonic generation in a model that realizes a transition from a
broken time-reversal symmetry Weyl-semimetal to a semi-Dirac regime, ie a gapless …

Signature of pressure-induced topological phase transition in ZrTe5

Z Kovács-Krausz, D Nagy, A Márffy, B Karpiak… - npj Quantum …, 2024 - nature.com
The layered van der Waals material ZrTe5 is known as a candidate topological insulator (TI),
however its topological phase and the relation with other properties such as an apparent …

High-harmonic generation in semi-Dirac and Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry: Exploration of the merging of Weyl nodes

L Medic, J Mravlje, A Ramšak, T Rejec - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We explore anomalous high-harmonic generation in a model that realizes a transition from a
broken time-reversal symmetry Weyl semimetal to a semi-Dirac regime, ie, a gapless …

Effects of pressure on structural, electronic, optical, and mechanical properties of ZrTe5: A density functional theory study

J Gao, M Zhong, QJ Liu, B Tang, FS Liu… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2021 - Elsevier
ZrTe 5 was assigned as topological insulator or semimetal, which can be widely applied in
electronic devices due to its various excellent properties. The first principle calculations …

Correlated interaction effects in the three-dimensional semi-Dirac semimetal

JR Wang, W Li, CJ Zhang - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Understanding the correlation effects in unconventional topological materials, in which the
fermion excitations take unusual dispersion, is an important topic in recent condensed …

High-harmonic generation in semi-Dirac and Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry: exploring the case of multiple semi-Dirac points

L Medic, J Mravlje, A Ramšak… - Advances in Ultrafast …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We investigate Anomalous High-Harmonic Generation (AHHG) within a model undergoing a
transition from a Weyl semimetal with broken time-reversal symmetry to a semi-Dirac regime …

Electrons leave the flatland: out-of-plane charge dynamics in layered materials

E Martino - 2020 - infoscience.epfl.ch
The goal of this thesis is to explore the" neglected" third dimension of layered materials, by
studying the interlayer charge dynamics through dc conductivity, optical spectroscopy and …