Topological semimetals from first principles

H Gao, JWF Venderbos, Y Kim… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review recent theoretical progress in the understanding and prediction of novel
topological semimetals. Topological semimetals define a class of gapless electronic phases …

Topological carbon materials: A new perspective

Y Chen, Y Xie, X Yan, ML Cohen, S Zhang - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Carbon has numerous one-dimensional (1D), two-dimensional (2D), and three-dimensional
(3D) allotropic structures. The study of carbon materials has long been a major focus of …

Observation of bulk states and spin-polarized topological surface states in transition metal dichalcogenide Dirac semimetal candidate

B Ghosh, D Mondal, CN Kuo, CS Lue, J Nayak, J Fujii… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We predict NiTe 2 to be a type-II Dirac semimetal based on ab initio calculations and explore
its bulk and spin-polarized surface states using spin-and angle-resolved photoemission …

Evidence of superconducting Fermi arcs

A Kuibarov, O Suvorov, R Vocaturo, A Fedorov, R Lou… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
An essential ingredient for the production of Majorana fermions for use in quantum
computing is topological superconductivity,. As bulk topological superconductors remain …

Rashba-like spin splitting along three momentum directions in trigonal layered PtBi2

Y Feng, Q Jiang, B Feng, M Yang, T Xu, W Liu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has gained much attention for its rich physical phenomena and
highly promising applications in spintronic devices. The Rashba-type SOC in systems with …

Centrosymmetric Li 2 NaN: a superior topological electronic material with critical-type triply degenerate nodal points

L Jin, X Zhang, X Dai, H Liu, G Chen… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
It has been, for the first time, reported that centrosymmetric Li2NaN is a realistic triply
degenerate nodal point (TDNP) material with three superior characteristics. In the band …

Two-dimensional Topological Ferroelectric Metal with Giant Shift Current

L Yang, L Li, ZM Yu, M Wu, Y Yao - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The pursuit for “ferroelectric metal,” which combines seemingly incompatible spontaneous
electric polarization and metallicity, has been assiduously ongoing but remains elusive …

Electronic structure of the surface-superconducting Weyl semimetal

R Vocaturo, K Koepernik, JI Facio, C Timm, IC Fulga… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Trigonal PtBi 2 is a layered semimetal without inversion symmetry, featuring 12 Weyl points
in the vicinity of the Fermi energy. Its topological Fermi arcs were recently shown to …

Impurity-induced triple point fermions in twisted bilayer graphene

A Ramires, JL Lado - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Triple point fermions are elusive electronic excitations that generalize Dirac and Weyl
modes beyond the conventional high-energy paradigm. Yet, finding real materials naturally …

Unveil the Potential-Dependent Electrochemical Formate Formation on Topological PtBi2 Monolayer

X Zhu, X Yuan, M Ge, Y Tang - ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
The lack of efficient catalysts has become a major obstacle to the large-scale
commercialization of electrochemical CO2 reduction (ECR). Two-dimensional semi-metallic …