Controllable strain-driven topological phase transition and dominant surface-state transport in HfTe5

J Liu, Y Zhou, S Yepez Rodriguez, MA Delmont… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The fine-tuning of topologically protected states in quantum materials holds great promise
for novel electronic devices. However, there are limited methods that allow for the controlled …

Probing the Spatial Homogeneity of Exfoliated HfTe5 Films

MP Singh, Q Dong, GF Chen, AW Holleitner, C Kastl - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
In van der Waals materials, external strain is an effective tool to manipulate and control
electronic responses by changing the electronic bands upon lattice deformation. In …

Engineering a pure Dirac regime in ZrTe

JI Facio, E Nocerino, IC Fulga, R Wawrzynczak… - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
Real-world topological semimetals typically exhibit Dirac and Weyl nodes that coexist with
trivial Fermi pockets. This tends to mask the physics of the relativistic quasiparticles. Using …

Quasi-Dirac points in electron-energy spectra of crystals

GP Mikitik - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Specific properties, such as surface Fermi arcs, features of quantum oscillations and of
various responses to a magnetic field, distinguish Dirac semimetals from ordinary materials …

Pressure-induced switching between topological phases in magnetic van der Waals heterostructures

J Li, P Yang, W Ren, R Wu - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Despite the significant developments in quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators study in
recent years, it remains an outstanding challenge to tune between different topological …

Magnetic field-induced topological phase transition for colossal negative magnetoresistance in EuB6

L Pan, Y Wang, X Ding, G Hu, H Guo, S Lv… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
EuB 6, as a magnetic Weyl semimetal, has attracted much attention in recent years due to its
rich intriguing physical properties, especially the colossal negative magnetoresistance …

Revealing the topological phase diagram of ZrTe5 using the complex strain fields of microbubbles

Z Tajkov, D Nagy, K Kandrai, J Koltai… - npj Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
Topological materials host robust properties, unaffected by microscopic perturbations, owing
to the global topological properties of the bulk electron system. Materials in which the …

The Anomalous Photo‐Nernst Effect of Massive Dirac Fermions In HfTe5

MP Singh, J Kiemle, C Xu, W Schmunk… - Advanced Physics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The quantum geometric Berry curvature results in an anomalous correction to the band
velocity of crystal electrons with a corresponding transverse (thermo) electric conductivity …

[HTML][HTML] Topological properties of half Heusler compounds: Tuned by the spin-orbit coupling and pd hybridization

Q Yuan, G Wang - Physics Letters A, 2023 - Elsevier
The topological properties of Half Heusler compounds XYZ (X= Na, K; Y= Cu, Ag, Au; Z= S,
Se, Te) are studied by the density functional theory (DFT) and tight-binding model …

Controllable Strain-driven Topological Phase Transition and Dominant Surface State Transport in High-Quality HfTe5 Samples

J Liu, Y Zhou, SY Rodriguez, MA Delmont… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Controlling materials to create and tune topological phases of matter could potentially be
used to explore new phases of topological quantum matter and to create novel devices …