Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

C Bao, P Tang, D Sun, S Zhou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob
for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in the …

Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage

H Luo, P Yu, G Li, K Yan - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Topological quantum materials (TQMs) have symmetry-protected band structures with useful
electronic properties that have applications in information, sensing, energy and other …

All topological bands of all nonmagnetic stoichiometric materials

MG Vergniory, BJ Wieder, L Elcoro, SSP Parkin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Topological quantum chemistry and symmetry-based indicators have facilitated large-scale
searches for materials with topological properties at the Fermi energy (EF). We report the …

Weyl, Dirac and high-fold chiral fermions in topological quantum matter

MZ Hasan, G Chang, I Belopolski, G Bian… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Quantum materials hosting Weyl fermions have opened a new era of research in condensed
matter physics. First proposed in 1929 in the context of particle physics, Weyl fermions have …

Photocurrent as a multiphysics diagnostic of quantum materials

Q Ma, R Krishna Kumar, SY Xu, FHL Koppens… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The photoexcitation life cycle from incident photon (and creation of photoexcited electron–
hole pair) to ultimate extraction of electrical current is a complex multiphysics process …

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 …

Topology and geometry under the nonlinear electromagnetic spotlight

Q Ma, AG Grushin, KS Burch - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
For many materials, a precise knowledge of their dispersion spectra is insufficient to predict
their ordered phases and physical responses. Instead, these materials are classified by the …

Twisted black phosphorus–based van der Waals stacks for fiber-integrated polarimeters

Y **ong, Y Wang, R Zhu, H Xu, C Wu, J Chen, Y Ma… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The real-time, in-line analysis of light polarization is critical in optical networks, currently
suffering from complex systems with numerous bulky opto-electro-mechanical elements …

Intrinsic negative magnetoresistance from the chiral anomaly of multifold fermions

F Balduini, A Molinari, L Rocchino, V Hasse… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The chiral anomaly-a hallmark of chiral spin-1/2 Weyl fermions-is an imbalance between left-
and right-moving particles that underpins phenomena such as particle decay and negative …

Recent progress in the theory of bulk photovoltaic effect

Z Dai, AM Rappe - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) occurs in solids with broken inversion symmetry and
refers to DC generation due to uniform illumination, without the need of heterostructures or …