Topological acoustics

H Xue, Y Yang, B Zhang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Topological acoustics is an emerging field that lies at the intersection of condensed matter
physics, mechanical structural design and acoustics engineering. It explores the design and …

Non-hermitian physics

Y Ashida, Z Gong, M Ueda - Advances in Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
A review is given on the foundations and applications of non-Hermitian classical and
quantum physics. First, key theorems and central concepts in non-Hermitian linear algebra …

Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting over PbTiO3 Modulated by Oxygen Vacancy and Ferroelectric Polarization

G Wan, L Yin, X Chen, X Xu, J Huang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ferroelectric materials hold great promise in the field of photocatalytic water splitting due to
their spontaneous polarization that sets up an inherent internal field for the spatial …

Scale-free ferroelectricity induced by flat phonon bands in HfO2

HJ Lee, M Lee, K Lee, J Jo, H Yang, Y Kim, SC Chae… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Discovery of robust yet reversibly switchable electric dipoles at reduced dimensions is
critical to the advancement of nanoelectronics devices. Energy bands flat in momentum …

Temperature induced structural and polarization features in BaFe 12 O 19

DB Migas, VA Turchenko, AV Rutkauskas… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the observation of a peculiar polarization behavior of BaFe12O19 in electric field
where the linear polarization is detected at temperatures below 150 K whereas at higher …

Gradient tungsten-doped Bi3TiNbO9 ferroelectric photocatalysts with additional built-in electric field for efficient overall water splitting

J Huang, Y Kang, J Liu, T Yao, J Qiu, P Du… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bi3TiNbO9, a layered ferroelectric photocatalyst, exhibits great potential for overall water
splitting through efficient intralayer separation of photogenerated carriers motivated by a …

Topological phases in polar oxide nanostructures

J Junquera, Y Nahas, S Prokhorenko, L Bellaiche… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The past decade has witnessed dramatic progress related to various aspects of emergent
topological polar textures in oxide nanostructures displaying vortices, skyrmions, merons …

Acoustic higher-order topological insulator on a kagome lattice

H Xue, Y Yang, F Gao, Y Chong, B Zhang - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Higher-order topological insulators,,,–are a family of recently predicted topological
phases of matter that obey an extended topological bulk–boundary correspondence …

Quantization of fractional corner charge in -symmetric higher-order topological crystalline insulators

WA Benalcazar, T Li, TL Hughes - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
In the presence of crystalline symmetries, certain topological insulators present a filling
anomaly: a mismatch between the number of electrons in an energy band and the number of …

Metal-free three-dimensional perovskite ferroelectrics

HY Ye, YY Tang, PF Li, WQ Liao, JX Gao, XN Hua… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Inorganic perovskite ferroelectrics are widely used in nonvolatile memory elements,
capacitors, and sensors because of their excellent ferroelectric and other properties. Organic …