Although only a few 2D materials have been predicted to possess ferroelectricity, 2D
ferroelectrics are expected to play a dominant role in the upcoming nano era as important …

The introduction of the concept of topology into condensed matter physics has greatly
deepened our fundamental understanding of transport properties of electrons as well as all …

Device applications of ferroelectrics have not only utilized the switchable polarization but
also adopted myriads of emerging physical properties. In particular, ferroelectrics in ultra …

Direct and inverse spin Hall effects lie at the heart of novel applications that utilize spins of
electrons as information carriers, allowing the generation of spin currents and detecting …

Nonvanishing Berry curvature dipole (BCD) and persistent spin texture (PST) are intriguing
physical manifestations of electronic states in noncentrosymmetric 2D materials. The former …

We elucidate a bias-free light-induced orbital and spin current through nonlinear response
theory, which generalizes the well-known bulk photovoltaic effect in centrosymmetric broken …

Atom‐thick 2D metal telluride atomic crystals (2D MTACs) display many fascinating physical
properties for potential applications in multiple fields. In this review, recent advances in the …

Transition metal dichalcogenides are known for their intriguing spin-valley effects, which can
be harnessed through proximity in van der Waals heterostructures. Their hexagonal …

Recent research in materials science opens exciting perspectives to design novel quantum
materials and devices, but it calls for quantitative predictions of properties which are not …

In this paper, two nonsymmorphic two-dimensional structures of CdTe and ZnTe are
modeled, and using state-of-the-art density functional theory with the group theory of solids …