The first-principles band theory paradigm has been a key player not only in the process of
discovering new classes of topologically interesting materials, but also for identifying salient …

In this article, we review the recent progress of the scanning tunneling microscopy studies of
1 T-TaS2 and 1 T-TaSe2 for bulk single crystals and molecular beam epitaxy monolayer …

The competition between proximate electronic phases produces a complex phenomenology
in strongly correlated systems. In particular, fluctuations associated with periodic charge or …

The newly discovered topological crystalline insulators feature a complex band structure
involving multiple Dirac cones,,,,,, and are potentially highly tunable by external electric field …

The unique crystalline protection of the surface states in topological crystalline insulators
has led to a series of predictions of strain-generated phenomena, from the appearance of …

Tuning the electronic properties of a matter is of fundamental interest in scientific research
as well as in applications. Recently, the Mott insulator-metal transition has been reported in …

By using synchrotron X-rays as a probe and a nanofabricated smart tip of a tunneling
microscope as a detector, we have achieved chemical fingerprinting of individual nickel …

Transport in topological matter has shown a variety of novel phenomena over the past
decade. Although numerous transport studies have been conducted on three-dimensional …

Bismuth, one of the heaviest semimetals in nature, ignited the interest of the materials
physics community for its potential impact on topological quantum material systems that use …

Bi2Te3-based compounds have long been studied as thermoelectric materials in cooling
applications near room temperature. Here, we investigated the thermoelectric properties of …