Evidence for a monolayer excitonic insulator

Y Jia, P Wang, CL Chiu, Z Song, G Yu, B Jäck, S Lei… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The interplay between topology and correlations can generate a variety of quantum phases,
many of which remain to be explored. Recent advances have identified monolayer WTe2 as …

Correlated interlayer exciton insulator in heterostructures of monolayer WSe2 and moiré WS2/WSe2

Z Zhang, EC Regan, D Wang, W Zhao, S Wang… - Nature physics, 2022 - nature.com
Moiré superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures have emerged as a powerful tool for
engineering quantum phenomena. Here we report the observation of a correlated interlayer …

Quantum anomalous Hall effect from inverted charge transfer gap

T Devakul, L Fu - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
A general mechanism is presented by which topological physics arises in strongly correlated
systems without flat bands. Starting from a charge transfer insulator, topology emerges when …

Flat-band-enabled triplet excitonic insulator in a diatomic kagome lattice

G Sethi, Y Zhou, L Zhu, L Yang, F Liu - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The excitonic insulator (EI) state is a strongly correlated many-body ground state, arising
from an instability in the band structure toward exciton formation. We show that the flat …

Signatures of the exciton gas phase and its condensation in monolayer 1T-ZrTe2

Y Song, C Jia, H Xiong, B Wang, Z Jiang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The excitonic insulator (EI) is a Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of excitons bound by
electron-hole interaction in a solid, which could support high-temperature BEC transition …

Common microscopic origin of the phase transitions in Ta2NiS5 and the excitonic insulator candidate Ta2NiSe5

L Windgätter, M Rösner, G Mazza, H Hübener… - npj Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
The structural phase transition in Ta2NiSe5 has been envisioned as driven by the formation
of an excitonic insulating phase. However, the role of structural and electronic instabilities on …

Charge density waves in Weyl semimetals

D Sehayek, M Thakurathi, AA Burkov - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We present a theory of charge density wave (CDW) states in Weyl semimetals and their
interplay with the chiral anomaly. In particular, we demonstrate a special nature of the …

Topological order in interacting semimetals

J Yi, X Ying, L Gioia, AA Burkov - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
It has recently been demonstrated that it is possible to open a gap in a magnetic Weyl
semimetal, while preserving the chiral anomaly along with the charge conservation and …

Robust high-temperature topological excitonic insulator of transition-metal carbide MXenes

S Dong, Y Li - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Topological excitonic insulators combine topological edge states and spontaneous exciton
condensation, with dual functionality of topological insulators and excitonic insulators. Yet …

Topological excitonic corner states and nodal phase in bilayer quantum spin Hall insulators

ZR Liu, LH Hu, CZ Chen, B Zhou, DH Xu - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Interaction induced topological states remain one of the most fascinating phenomena in
condensed matter physics. The exciton condensate has recently sparked renewed interest …