Topological materials: Weyl semimetals

B Yan, C Felser - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Topological insulators and topological semimetals are both new classes of quantum
materials, which are characterized by surface states induced by the topology of the bulk …

2D metallic transition‐metal dichalcogenides: structures, synthesis, properties, and applications

B Zhao, D Shen, Z Zhang, P Lu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D materials and the associated heterostructures define an ideal material platform
for investigating physical and chemical properties, and exhibiting new functional …

Universal mechanical exfoliation of large-area 2D crystals

Y Huang, YH Pan, R Yang, LH Bao, L Meng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Two-dimensional materials provide extraordinary opportunities for exploring phenomena
arising in atomically thin crystals. Beginning with the first isolation of graphene, mechanical …

Coupled ferroelectricity and superconductivity in bilayer Td-MoTe2

A **dal, A Saha, Z Li, T Taniguchi, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Achieving electrostatic control of quantum phases is at the frontier of condensed matter
research. Recent investigations have revealed superconductivity tunable by electrostatic …

Supercurrent diode effect and finite-momentum superconductors

NFQ Yuan, L Fu - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
When both inversion and time-reversal symmetries are broken, the critical current of a
superconductor can be nonreciprocal. In this work, we show that, in certain classes of two …

Recent advances on transition metal dichalcogenides for electrochemical energy conversion

X Wu, H Zhang, J Zhang, XW Lou - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) hold great promise for electrochemical energy
conversion technologies in view of their unique structural features associated with the …

Experimental observation of topological Fermi arcs in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2

K Deng, G Wan, P Deng, K Zhang, S Ding, E Wang… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Weyl semimetal is a new quantum state of matter,,,,,,,,,,, hosting the condensed matter
physics counterpart of the relativistic Weyl fermions originally introduced in high-energy …

Berry curvature dipole in Weyl semimetal materials: An ab initio study

Y Zhang, Y Sun, B Yan - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Noncentrosymmetric metals are anticipated to exhibit a dc photocurrent in the nonlinear
optical response caused by the Berry curvature dipole in momentum space. Weyl …

Prediction of Weyl semimetal in orthorhombic

Y Sun, SC Wu, MN Ali, C Felser, B Yan - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We investigate the orthorhombic phase (T d) of the layered transition-metal dichalcogenide
MoTe 2 as a Weyl semimetal candidate. MoTe 2 exhibits four pairs of Weyl points lying …

Recent progress in two‐dimensional ferroelectric materials

Z Guan, H Hu, X Shen, P **ang… - Advanced Electronic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The investigation of two‐dimensional (2D) ferroelectrics has attracted significant interest in
recent years for applications in functional electronics. Without the limitation of a finite size …