Exotic topological bands and quantum states in metal–organic and covalent–organic frameworks

W Jiang, X Ni, F Liu - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Metal–organic and covalent–organic frameworks (MOFs/COFs) have been
extensively studied for fundamental interests and their promising applications, taking …

Topological quantum devices: a review

KH **, W Jiang, G Sethi, F Liu - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Engineering of flat bands and Dirac bands in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (COFs): relationships among molecular orbital symmetry, lattice symmetry …

X Ni, H Li, F Liu, JL Brédas - Materials Horizons, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (2D-COFs), also referred to as 2D polymer
networks, display unusual electronic-structure characteristics, which can significantly enrich …

Screening two-dimensional materials with topological flat bands

H Liu, S Meng, F Liu - Physical Review Materials, 2021 - APS
The topological flat band (TFB) has been proposed theoretically in various lattice models, to
exhibit a rich spectrum of intriguing physical behaviors. However, the experimental …

Topological flat bands in self-complementary plasmonic metasurfaces

Z Xu, X Kong, J Chang, DF Sievenpiper, TJ Cui - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Photonics can be confined in real space with dispersion vanishing in the momentum space
due to destructive interference. In this Letter, we report the experimental realization of flat …

Large-scale 2D heterostructures from hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks and graphene with distinct Dirac and flat bands

X Zhang, X Li, Z Cheng, A Chen, P Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The current strategies for building 2D organic-inorganic heterojunctions involve mostly wet-
chemistry processes or exfoliation and transfer, leading to interface contaminations, poor …

Pseudospin Polarized Dual-Higher-Order Topology in Hydrogen-Substituted Graphdiyne

T Zhang, T Hu, Y Zhang, Z Wang - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Although the topological band theory is applicable to both Fermionic and bosonic systems,
the same electronic and phononic topological phases are seldom reported in one natural …

Excited quantum anomalous and spin Hall effect: dissociation of flat-bands-enabled excitonic insulator state

Y Zhou, G Sethi, H Liu, Z Wang, F Liu - Nanotechnology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) and quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) are two
interesting physical manifestations of 2D materials that have an intrinsic nontrivial band …

Intrinsic second-order topological insulator in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

T Hu, T Zhang, H Mu, Z Wang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
As an intriguing topological phase, higher-order topological insulators have attracted
tremendous attention, but the candidate materials are limited in artificial and inorganic …

Realization of flat bands by lattice intercalation in kagome metals

D Kim, F Liu - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Recently there has been intense interest in kagome metals, which are expected to host flat
bands (FBs). However, the observed “FBs” are not flat over the whole two-dimensional …