Competition between charge-density-wave and superconductivity in the kagome metal

NN Wang, KY Chen, QW Yin, YNN Ma, BY Pan… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
The interplay between charge-density-wave (CDW) order and superconductivity (SC) in the
kagome metal Rb V 3 Sb 5 is studied by tracking the evolutions of their transition …

Kagome materials AV3Sb5 (A= K, Rb, Cs): pairing symmetry and pressure-tuning studies

Y Zhou, G Ye, S Luo, Y Song, X Lu… - … Science and Technology, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The vanadium-based kagome metals AV 3 Sb 5 (A= K, Rb, and Cs) host a superconducting
ground state that coexists with an unconventional charge density wave (CDW). The CDW …

Multiple superconducting phases in heavy-fermion metals

EM Nica, S Ran, L Jiao, Q Si - Frontiers in Electronic Materials, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Symmetry breaking beyond a global U (1) phase is the key signature of unconventional
superconductors. As prototypical strongly correlated materials, heavy-fermion metals …

Flat-band superconductivity for tight-binding electrons on a square-octagon lattice

LHCM Nunes, CM Smith - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene has triggered a resurgence of
interest in flat-band superconductivity. Here, we investigate the square-octagon lattice …

[HTML][HTML] Room temperature magnetocaloric effect of Ce0. 65Mg0. 35Co3

MA Hamad, HR Alamri - Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The magnetocaloric (MC) effect of Ce 0.65 Mg 0.35 Co 3 alloy is simulated using a
phenomenological model (PM). MC parameters of Ce 0.65 Mg 0.35 Co 3 alloy are obtained …

Pressure-induced superconductivity and topological phase transitions in the topological nodal-line semimetal SrAs3

E Cheng, W **a, X Shi, Z Yu, L Wang, L Yan… - npj Quantum …, 2020 - nature.com
Topological nodal-line semimetals (TNLSMs) are materials whose conduction and valence
bands cross each other, meeting a topologically protected closed loop rather than discrete …

High-performance non-Fermi-liquid metallic thermoelectric materials

Z Dong, Y Zhang, J Luo, Y Jiang, Z Yu… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Searching for high-performance thermoelectric (TE) materials in the paradigm of narrow-
bandgap semiconductors is hampered by a bottleneck. Here we report on the discovery of …

Inverse melting and intertwined orders in

HQ Ye, YN Zhang, T Le, HQ Yuan, M Smidman - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Much of the rich physics of correlated systems is manifested in the diverse range of
intertwined ordered phases and other quantum states that are associated with different …

Pressure-induced superconductivity in elemental ytterbium metal

J Song, G Fabbris, W Bi, D Haskel, JS Schilling - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
Ytterbium (Yb) metal is divalent and nonmagnetic (4 f 14 configuration). Under pressure its
valence increases significantly leading to the expectation that magnetic instabilities and …

Electronic structure of cerium: a comprehensive first-principles study

L Huang, H Lu - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Cerium, in which the 4 f valence electrons live on the brink between localized and itinerant
characters, exhibits varying crystal structures and therefore anomalous physical properties …