Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry

BJ Wieder, B Bradlyn, J Cano, Z Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Topological materials discovery has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 15 years following
the identification of the first nonmagnetic topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline …

Topology and geometry under the nonlinear electromagnetic spotlight

Q Ma, AG Grushin, KS Burch - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
For many materials, a precise knowledge of their dispersion spectra is insufficient to predict
their ordered phases and physical responses. Instead, these materials are classified by the …

Helicity-dependent photocurrents in the chiral Weyl semimetal RhSi

D Rees, K Manna, B Lu, T Morimoto, H Borrmann… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Weyl semimetals are crystals in which electron bands cross at isolated points in momentum
space. Associated with each crossing point (or Weyl node) is a topological invariant known …

Light control with Weyl semimetals

C Guo, VS Asadchy, B Zhao, S Fan - Elight, 2023 - Springer
Weyl semimetals are topological materials whose electron quasiparticles obey the Weyl
equation. They possess many unusual properties that may lead to new applications. This is …

Terahertz Nonlinear Hall Rectifiers Based on Spin‐Polarized Topological Electronic States in 1T‐CoTe2

Z Hu, L Zhang, A Chakraborty, G D'Olimpio… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The zero‐magnetic‐field nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) refers to the second‐order transverse
current induced by an applied alternating electric field; it indicates the topological properties …

A light-induced phononic symmetry switch and giant dissipationless topological photocurrent in ZrTe5

L Luo, D Cheng, B Song, LL Wang, C Vaswani… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Dissipationless currents from topologically protected states are promising for disorder-
tolerant electronics and quantum computation. Here, we photogenerate giant anisotropic …

Photocurrent detection of the orbital angular momentum of light

Z Ji, W Liu, S Krylyuk, X Fan, Z Zhang, A Pan, L Feng… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Applications that use the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light show promise for
increasing the bandwidth of optical communication networks. However, direct photocurrent …

Hybrid Dirac semimetal-based photodetector with efficient low-energy photon harvesting

L Wang, L Han, W Guo, L Zhang, C Yao… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the considerable effort, fast and highly sensitive photodetection is not widely
available at the low-photon-energy range (~ meV) of the electromagnetic spectrum, owing to …

Twisted black phosphorus–based van der Waals stacks for fiber-integrated polarimeters

Y Xiong, Y Wang, R Zhu, H Xu, C Wu, J Chen, Y Ma… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The real-time, in-line analysis of light polarization is critical in optical networks, currently
suffering from complex systems with numerous bulky opto-electro-mechanical elements …

Room-temperature electrically switchable spin–valley coupling in a van der Waals ferroelectric halide perovskite with persistent spin helix

L Zhang, J Jiang, C Multunas, C Ming, Z Chen, Y Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spintronic devices, by harnessing the spin degree of freedom, are expected to outperform
charge-based devices in terms of energy efficiency and speed of operation. The use of an …