Spectroscopic ellipsometry for low-dimensional materials and heterostructures

SJ Yoo, QH Park - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Discovery of low-dimensional materials has been of great interest in physics and material
science. Optical permittivity is an optical fingerprint of material electronic structures, and thus …

Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces in superconductors with broken time-reversal symmetry

DF Agterberg, PMR Brydon, C Timm - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
It is commonly believed that, in the absence of disorder or an external magnetic field, there
are three possible types of superconducting excitation gaps: The gap is nodeless, it has …

Spontaneous gyrotropic electronic order in a transition-metal dichalcogenide

SY Xu, Q Ma, Y Gao, A Kogar, A Zong… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Chirality is ubiquitous in nature, and populations of opposite chiralities are surprisingly
asymmetric at fundamental levels 1, 2. Examples range from parity violation in the subatomic …

Spectroscopic visualization and phase manipulation of chiral charge density waves in 1T-TaS2

Y Zhao, Z Nie, H Hong, X Qiu, S Han, Y Yu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The chiral charge density wave is a many-body collective phenomenon in condensed matter
that may play a role in unconventional superconductivity and topological physics. Two …

Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces: General theory, magnetic order, and topology

PMR Brydon, DF Agterberg, H Menke, C Timm - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We present a comprehensive theory for Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces in inversion-symmetric
superconductors which break time-reversal symmetry. A requirement for such a gap …

Molecular beam epitaxy growth and scanning tunneling microscopy study of ultrathin films

JP Peng, JQ Guan, HM Zhang, CL Song, L Wang, K He… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Molecular beam epitaxy is used to grow TiSe 2 ultrathin films on a graphitized SiC (0001)
substrate. TiSe 2 films proceed via a nearly layer-by-layer growth mode and exhibit two …

Ultrafast charge ordering by self-amplified exciton–phonon dynamics in TiSe2

C Lian, SJ Zhang, SQ Hu, MX Guan, S Meng - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
The origin of charge density waves (CDWs) in TiSe 2 has long been debated, mainly due to
the difficulties in identifying the timescales of the excitonic pairing and electron–phonon …

Stable charge density wave phase in a monolayer

B Singh, CH Hsu, WF Tsai, VM Pereira, H Lin - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Charge density wave (CDW) phases are symmetry-reduced states of matter in which a
periodic modulation of the electronic charge frequently leads to drastic changes of the …

Endotaxial stabilization of 2D charge density waves with long-range order

SH Sung, N Agarwal, I El Baggari, P Kezer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Charge density waves are emergent quantum states that spontaneously reduce crystal
symmetry, drive metal-insulator transitions, and precede superconductivity. In low …

Singlet superconductivity enhanced by charge order in nested twisted bilayer graphene fermi surfaces

E Laksono, JN Leaw, A Reaves, M Singh… - Solid State …, 2018 - Elsevier
Using the continuum model for low energy non-interacting electronic structure of moiré van
der Waals heterostructures developed by Bistritzer and MacDonald [1], we study the …