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 …

2D material science: Defect engineering by particle irradiation

M Schleberger, J Kotakoski - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are at the heart of many novel devices due to their unique
and often superior properties. For simplicity, 2D materials are often assumed to exist in their …

Artificial intelligence for science in quantum, atomistic, and continuum systems

X Zhang, L Wang, J Helwig, Y Luo, C Fu, Y Xie… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are fueling a new paradigm of discoveries in natural
sciences. Today, AI has started to advance natural sciences by improving, accelerating, and …

Engineering corner states from two-dimensional topological insulators

Y Ren, Z Qiao, Q Niu - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We theoretically demonstrate that the second-order topological insulator with robust corner
states can be realized in two-dimensional Z 2 topological insulators by applying an in-plane …

Quantum anomalous hall effects in graphene from proximity-induced uniform and staggered spin-orbit and exchange coupling

P Högl, T Frank, K Zollner, D Kochan, M Gmitra… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We investigate an effective model of proximity modified graphene (or symmetrylike
materials) with broken time-reversal symmetry. We predict the appearance of quantum …

Developments and applications of the OPTIMADE API for materials discovery, design, and data exchange

ML Evans, J Bergsma, A Merkys, CW Andersen… - Digital …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The Open Databases Integration for Materials Design (OPTIMADE) application
programming interface (API) empowers users with holistic access to a growing federation of …

Quenching the bandgap of two-dimensional semiconductors with a perpendicular electric field

D Domaretskiy, M Philippi, M Gibertini, N Ubrig… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Perpendicular electric fields can tune the electronic band structure of atomically thin
semiconductors. In bilayer graphene, which is an intrinsic zero-gap semiconductor, a …

Theoretical prediction of two-dimensional materials, behavior, and properties

ES Penev, N Marzari, BI Yakobson - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Predictive modeling of two-dimensional (2D) materials is at the crossroad of two current
rapidly growing interests: 2D materials per se, massively sought after and explored in …

Local Berry curvature signatures in dichroic angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy from two-dimensional materials

M Schüler, U De Giovannini, H Hübener, A Rubio… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Topologically nontrivial two-dimensional materials hold great promise for next-generation
optoelectronic applications. However, measuring the Hall or spin-Hall response is often a …

How circular dichroism in time-and angle-resolved photoemission can be used to spectroscopically detect transient topological states in graphene

M Schüler, U De Giovannini, H Hübener, A Rubio… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Pumping graphene with circularly polarized light is the archetype of light-tailoring
topological bands. Realizing the induced Floquet-Chern-insulator state and demonstrating …