Angle-resolved photoemission studies of quantum materials

JA Sobota, Y He, ZX Shen - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The physics of quantum materials is dictated by many-body interactions and mathematical
concepts such as symmetry and topology that have transformed our understanding of matter …

Rashba-like physics in condensed matter

G Bihlmayer, P Noël, DV Vyalikh, EV Chulkov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling induces a unique form of Zeeman interaction in momentum space in
materials that lack inversion symmetry: the electron's spin is locked on an effective magnetic …

Emerging research landscape of altermagnetism

L Šmejkal, J Sinova, T Jungwirth - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Magnetism is one of the largest, most fundamental, and technologically most relevant fields
of condensed-matter physics. Traditionally, two basic magnetic phases have been …

Beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism: A phase with nonrelativistic spin and crystal rotation symmetry

L Šmejkal, J Sinova, T Jungwirth - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Recent series of theoretical and experimental reports have driven attention to time-reversal
symmetry-breaking spintronic and spin-splitting phenomena in materials with collinear …

Altermagnetic lifting of Kramers spin degeneracy

J Krempaský, L Šmejkal, SW D'souza, M Hajlaoui… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Lifted Kramers spin degeneracy (LKSD) has been among the central topics of condensed-
matter physics since the dawn of the band theory of solids,. It underpins established practical …

Observation of superconducting diode effect

F Ando, Y Miyasaka, T Li, J Ishizuka, T Arakawa… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical and electrical effects associated with a lack of spatial inversion symmetry
allow direction-selective propagation and transport of quantum particles, such as photons …

Organic-to-inorganic structural chirality transfer in a 2D hybrid perovskite and impact on Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling

MK Jana, R Song, H Liu, DR Khanal, SM Janke… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Translation of chirality and asymmetry across structural motifs and length scales plays a
fundamental role in nature, enabling unique functionalities in contexts ranging from …

Gate-tuneable and chirality-dependent charge-to-spin conversion in tellurium nanowires

F Calavalle, M Suárez-Rodríguez, B Martín-García… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral materials are an ideal playground for exploring the relation between symmetry,
relativistic effects and electronic transport. For instance, chiral organic molecules have been …

Unique Thickness-Dependent Properties of the van der Waals Interlayer Antiferromagnet Films

MM Otrokov, IP Rusinov, M Blanco-Rey, M Hoffmann… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Using density functional theory and Monte Carlo calculations, we study the thickness
dependence of the magnetic and electronic properties of a van der Waals interlayer …

Nonreciprocal responses from non-centrosymmetric quantum materials

Y Tokura, N Nagaosa - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Directional transport and propagation of quantum particle and current, such as electron,
photon, spin, and phonon, are known to occur in the materials system with broken inversion …