Complex electronic structure evolution of NdSb across the magnetic transition

AP Sakhya, B Wang, F Kabir, CY Huang, MM Hosen… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The rare-earth monopnictide (REM) family, which hosts magnetic ground states with extreme
magnetoresistance, has established itself as a fruitful playground for the discovery of …

Structural diversity of the Zintl pnictides with rare-earth metals

S Baranets, A Ovchinnikov, S Bobev - … on the Physics and Chemistry of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Zintl phases have been purely a laboratory curiosity for decades, recently becoming a
familiar subject in many research topics of practical importance, such as thermoelectrics for …

Evidence of topological surface states in dypresium monopnictides compounds

M Ragragui, LB Drissi, EH Saidi - Materials Science and Engineering: B, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, the rock salt structures of rare earth monopnictides have attracted a lot of attention
as reference materials to show Dirac-like surface states and high carrier mobility which are …

Giant anisotropic magnetocaloric effect in antiferromagnetic topological semimetal HoSb

Z **a, H Chen, Y Chen, F Tang, R Wang, C Hu… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Magnetic rare-earth-based single crystals have aroused great interest due to their giant
magnetocaloric effect (MCE). In this work, we present the anisotropic magnetic properties …

Behavior of gapped and ungapped Dirac cones in the antiferromagnetic topological metal SmBi

AP Sakhya, S Kumar, A Pramanik, RP Pandeya… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We studied the behavior of nontrivial Dirac fermion states in the antiferromagnetic metal
SmBi using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). The experimental results …

Temperature-dependent Fermi surface probed by Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations in topological semimetal candidates DyBi and HoBi

P Nowakowska, O Pavlosiuk, P Wiśniewski… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Rare earth-based monopnictides are among the most intensively studied groups of
materials in which extremely large magnetoresistance has been observed. This study …

Semimetal hR6-CaSi2 thin film: A transparent contact for Si optoelectronics

AV Shevlyagin, NG Galkin, KN Galkin… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Transparent conducting materials (TCMs) provide low cost and effective solution for the
modern optoelectronics. However, simultaneous high electrical conductivity and optical …

Hybrid nodal-chain semimetal with emergent flat band in MgCaN2

H Wu, DS Ma, B Fu - New Journal of Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The distinct over-tiltings of band crossings in topological semimetals generate the type-I and
type-II classification of Dirac/Weyl and nodal-line fermions, accompanied by exotic electronic …

Rock salt-type HoO epitaxial thin film as a heavy rare-earth monoxide ferromagnetic semiconductor with a Curie temperature above 130 K

T Amrillah, D Oka, H Shimizu, S Sasaki, D Saito… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Ho monopnictides (HoPn: Pn= N, P, As, Sb, and Bi) and monochalcogenides (HoCh: Ch= S,
Se, and Te) are known to possess a nontrivial magnetic structure, while solid-phase HoO …

On the topological invariant

LB Drissi, EH Saidi - International Journal of Geometric Methods in …, 2023 - World Scientific
We develop a complex fermionic field-based method to model the properties of the filled
bands of topological two-dimensional (2D) matter with time reversal (TR)-symmetry. Using …