Experimental perspective on three-dimensional topological semimetals

BQ Lv, T Qian, H Ding - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Topological semimetals (TSMs) are characterized by bulk band crossings in their electronic
structures, which are expected to give rise to gapless electronic excitations and topological …

Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

C Bao, P Tang, D Sun, S Zhou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob
for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in the …

Type-III and tilted Dirac cones emerging from flat bands in photonic orbital graphene

M Milićević, G Montambaux, T Ozawa, O Jamadi… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
The extraordinary electronic properties of Dirac materials, the two-dimensional partners of
Weyl semimetals, arise from the linear crossings in their band structure. When the dispersion …

Floquet analysis of excitations in materials

UD Giovannini, H Hübener - Journal of Physics: Materials, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Controlled excitation of materials can transiently induce changed or novel properties with
many fundamental and technological implications. Especially, the concept of Floquet …

Tunable topological states in stacked chern insulator bilayers

X Li, X Xu, H Zhou, H Jia, E Wang, H Fu, JT Sun… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The emergence of intrinsic quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators with a long-range
ferromagnetic (FM) order triggers unprecedented prosperity for combining topology and …

Floquet engineering the band structure of materials with optimal control theory

A Castro, U De Giovannini, SA Sato, H Hübener… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We demonstrate that the electronic structure of a material can be deformed into Floquet
pseudobands with arbitrarily tailored shapes. We achieve this goal with a combination of …

Theoretical prediction of low-energy Stone-Wales graphene with an intrinsic type-III Dirac cone

Z Gong, X Shi, J Li, S Li, C He, T Ouyang, C Zhang… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Based on first principles, we predict a new low-energy Stone-Wales graphene SW40, which
has an orthorhombic lattice with P bam symmetry and 40 carbon atoms in its crystalline cell …

Light-induced ultrafast glide-mirror symmetry breaking in black phosphorus

C Bao, F Wang, H Zhong, S Zhou, T Lin, H Zhang… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Symmetry breaking plays an important role in the fields of physics, ranging from particle
physics to condensed matter physics. In solid-state materials, phase transitions are deeply …

Evidence of topological edge states in buckled antimonene monolayers

SY Zhu, Y Shao, E Wang, L Cao, XY Li, ZL Liu, C Liu… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional topological materials have attracted intense research efforts owing to their
promise in applications for low-energy, high-efficiency quantum computations. Group-VA …

Topological band evolution between Lieb and kagome lattices

W Jiang, M Kang, H Huang, H Xu, T Low, F Liu - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Among two-dimensional lattices, both kagome and Lieb lattices have been extensively
studied, showing unique physics related to their exotic flat and Dirac bands. Interestingly, we …