Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry

BJ Wieder, B Bradlyn, J Cano, Z Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Topological materials discovery has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 15 years following
the identification of the first nonmagnetic topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline …

Quadrupole topological insulators in Ta2M3Te5 (M = Ni, Pd) monolayers

Z Guo, J Deng, Y **e, Z Wang - npj Quantum Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Higher-order topological insulators have been introduced in the precursory Benalcazar-
Bernevig-Hughes quadrupole model, but no electronic compound has been proposed to be …

A robust and tunable Luttinger liquid in correlated edge of transition-metal second-order topological insulator Ta2Pd3Te5

A Wang, Y Li, G Yang, D Yan, Y Huang, Z Guo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The interplay between topology and interaction always plays an important role in condensed
matter physics and induces many exotic quantum phases, while rare transition metal layered …

Observation of Emergent Superconductivity in the Topological Insulator Ta2Pd3Te5 via Pressure Manipulation

H Yu, D Yan, Z Guo, Y Zhou, X Yang, P Li… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Topological insulators offer significant potential to revolutionize diverse fields driven by
nontrivial manifestations of their topological electronic band structures. However, the …

Pressure-induced nontrivial band topology and superconductivity in the transition metal chalcogenide

H Yang, Y Zhou, S Wang, J Wang, X Chen, L Zhang… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The unique electronic and crystal structures driven by external pressure in transition metal
chalcogenides (TMCs) can host emergent quantum states. Here we report pressure-induced …

Spontaneous Gap Opening and Potential Excitonic States in an Ideal Dirac Semimetal

P Zhang, Y Dong, D Yan, B Jiang, T Yang, J Li, Z Guo… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
The opening of an energy gap in the electronic structure generally indicates the presence of
interactions. In materials with low carrier density and short screening length, long-range …

Weak antilocalization in the transition metal telluride

WH Jiao, HQ Qiu, W Yang, JK Bao, S **ao, Y Liu, Y Li… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We report transport studies on the layered van der Waals topological crystalline insulator Ta
2 Pd 3 Te 5. The temperature-dependent resistance at high temperature is dominated by a …

Large Spin Hall Conductivity and Excellent Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Activity in Unconventional PtTe1.75 Monolayer

D Shao, J Deng, H Sheng, R Zhang, H Weng, Z Fang… - Research, 2023 - spj.science.org
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have gained lots of attention due to the potential
applications. In this work, we propose that based on first-principles calculations, the (2× 2) …

Robust Edge States of Quasi-1D Material Ta2NiSe7 and Applications in Saturable Absorbers

P **ao, X Sun, Y Chen, Y Han, ZM Yu, W Liu, X Li… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
The helical edge states (ESs) protected by underlying Z 2 topology in two-dimensional
topological insulators (TIs) arouse upsurges in saturable absorptions thanks to the strong …

In-Plane Anisotropy in the Layered Topological Insulator Ta2Ni3Te5 Investigated via TEM and Polarized Raman Spectroscopy

K Harrison, DA Jeff, JM DeStefano, O Peek… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Layered Ta2M3Te5 (M= Pd, Ni) has emerged as a platform to study 2D topological
insulators, which have exotic properties such as spin-momentum locking and the presence …