Structured electrons with chiral mass and charge

Y Fang, J Kuttruff, D Nabben, P Baum - Science, 2024 - science.org
Chirality is a phenomenon with widespread relevance in fundamental physics, material
science, chemistry, optics, and spectroscopy. In this work, we show that a free electron can …

On the engineering of higher-order Van Hove singularities in two dimensions

A Chandrasekaran, LC Rhodes, EA Morales… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The properties of correlated electron materials are often intricately linked to Van Hove
singularities (VHS) in the vicinity of the Fermi energy. The class of these VHS is of great …

Structural chirality and related properties in the periodic inorganic solids: Review and perspectives

E Bousquet, M Fava, Z Romestan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Chirality refers to the asymmetry of objects that cannot be superimposed on their mirror
image. It is a concept that exists in various scientific fields and has profound consequences …

Berry curvature signatures in chiroptical excitonic transitions

S Beaulieu, S Dong, V Christiansson, P Werner… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The topology of the electronic band structure of solids can be described by its Berry
curvature distribution across the Brillouin zone. We theoretically introduce and …

Uncovering the Lowest Thickness Limit for Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism of Cr1.6Te2

SK Chaluvadi, SP Chalil, A Jana, D Dagur, G Vinai… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Metallic ferromagnetic transition metal dichalcogenides have emerged as important building
blocks for scalable magnetic and memory applications. Downscaling such systems to the …

Orbital currents in lattice multiorbital systems: Continuity equation, torques, and RKKY interaction

NH Aase, EW Hodt, J Linder, A Sudbø - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Utilizing the electron orbital degree of freedom in heterostructures is attracting increasing
attention due to the possibility of achieving much larger conversion rates between charge …

Magnetic exchange interaction in a spin valve with a chiral spin-triplet superconductor

A Romano, C Noce, M Cuoco - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The coupling between two ferromagnets separated by a superconductor has been mostly
investigated for the case of Cooper pairs with spin-singlet symmetry. Here, we consider a …

Electron matter waves with internal torque

Y Fang, J Kuttruff, P Baum - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.10076, 2024 - arxiv.org
Angular momentum and torque are important principles for basic and applied physics on
any spatial scales, for example, in elementary particles, cold gases, optical tweezers …

Probing disorder-induced time-reversal symmetry breaking in Josephson junctions

Y Wu, D Huang, H Zhang, A Guarino… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The relation between superconductivity and time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is one of the most
fascinating problems in condensed matter physics. Although most superconductors …

Surface chiral metal and warped time-reversal symmetry

W Brzezicki - SUPERSTRIPES 2024, 2024 - superstripes.net
A theory of dichroism and spin-dichroism is being developed for an archetypal quantum
material Sr2RuO4 to describe the observed peculiarities in the circularly polarized, spin …