The superconducting diode effect

M Nadeem, MS Fuhrer, X Wang - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
A superconducting diode enables supercurrent to flow in only one direction, providing new
functionalities for superconducting circuits. In recent years, there has been experimental …

A comprehensive review on Bi2Te3‐based thin films: Thermoelectrics and beyond

X Tang, Z Li, W Liu, Q Zhang… - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bi2Te3‐based materials are not only the most important and widely used room temperature
thermoelectric (TE) materials but are also canonical examples of topological insulators in …

Angle-resolved photoemission studies of quantum materials

JA Sobota, Y He, ZX Shen - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The physics of quantum materials is dictated by many-body interactions and mathematical
concepts such as symmetry and topology that have transformed our understanding of matter …

2D materials for quantum information science

X Liu, MC Hersam - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
The transformation of digital computers from bulky machines to portable systems has been
enabled by new materials and advanced processing technologies that allow ultrahigh …

Layered intercalation materials

J Zhou, Z Lin, H Ren, X Duan, I Shakir… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D layered materials typically feature strong in‐plane covalent chemical bonding
within each atomic layer and weak out‐of‐plane van der Waals (vdW) interactions between …

Classification of topological quantum matter with symmetries

CK Chiu, JCY Teo, AP Schnyder, S Ryu - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Topological materials have become the focus of intense research in recent years, since they
exhibit fundamentally new physical phenomena with potential applications for novel devices …

Colloquium: Topological band theory

A Bansil, H Lin, T Das - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
The first-principles band theory paradigm has been a key player not only in the process of
discovering new classes of topologically interesting materials, but also for identifying salient …

RETRACTED: Chiral Majorana fermion modes in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator–superconductor structure

QL He, L Pan, AL Stern, EC Burks, X Che, G Yin… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Majorana fermion is a hypothetical particle that is its own antiparticle. We report transport
measurements that suggest the existence of one-dimensional chiral Majorana fermion …

Majorana zero mode detected with spin selective Andreev reflection in the vortex of a topological superconductor

HH Sun, KW Zhang, LH Hu, C Li, GY Wang, HY Ma… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Recently, theory has predicted a Majorana zero mode (MZM) to induce spin selective
Andreev reflection (SSAR), a novel magnetic property which can be used to detect the MZM …

Multiple types of topological fermions in transition metal silicides

P Tang, Q Zhou, SC Zhang - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Exotic massless fermionic excitations with nonzero Berry flux, other than the Dirac and Weyl
fermions, could exist in condensed matter systems under the protection of crystalline …