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We study the electronic structure of a strongly correlated d-wave superconducting state. Combining a renormalized mean field theory with direct calculation of matrix elements, we obtain explicit analytical results for the nodal Fermi…
We theoretically study ambient pressure superconductivity in thin films of La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$. We construct model Hamiltonians adopting the crystal structure theoretically determined by fixing the in-plane lattice constant to those…
Emergent phenomena driven by electronic reconstructions in oxide heterostructures have been intensively discussed. However, the role of these phenomena in shaping the electronic properties in van der Waals heterointerfaces has hitherto not…
The semi-metals having electrons near the Fermi level follow the relativistic equation of motion, and show Dirac or Weyl-type behavior. Their orbital resolved electronic bands analysis indicates the non-trivial topological states. Through…
We theoretically analyze the surface density of states of heavy fermion materials such as CeCoIn$_5$. Recent experimental progress made it possible to locally probe the formation of heavy quasi-particles in these systems via scanning…
Electronic structure of one of the nickelates (LaNiO$_{2}$) and one of the cuprates (CaCuO$_{2}$) is studied with three self consistent GW-based methods: scGW, sc(GW+Vertex), and quasiparticle self-consistent GW. Low energy features…
Ab initio electronic structure calculations show that the recently identified quasi-two-dimensional electride Y$_2$C is a weak itinerant ferromagnet or at least close to a ferromagnetic instability. The ferromagnetism is induced by the…
The LDA plus Gutzwiller variational method is used to investigate the groundstate physical properties of the newly discovered superconducting KNi2S2. Five Ni-3d Wannier-orbital basis are constructed by the density-functional theory, to…
One of the unifying concepts in the iron-pnictide superconductors, both for the mechanism of magnetic ordering and of unconventional order parameter character, has been the electron and hole Fermi surfaces that are approximately nested.…
We report measurements of the de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) oscillation and a band structure calculation for the pnictide superconductor BaNi$_2$P$_2$, which is isostructural to BaFe$_2$As$_2$, the mother compound of the iron-pnictide…
Recently, a first-order phase transition associated with charge density wave (CDW) has been observed at low temperatures in intermetallic compound BaFe$_2$Al$_9$. However, this transition is absent in its isostructural sister compound…
The electron-electron scattering rate of low-energy quasiparticles is computed perturbatively for a two-dimensional metal with a partially nested Fermi surface, a weak electron-electron interaction and an energy-independent impurity…
Using single crystal neutron and x-ray diffraction, we discovered a charge density wave (CDW) below 320 K, which accounts for the long-sought origin of the heat capacity and resistivity anomalies in UPt2Si2. The modulation wavevector, Qmod,…
Dimensionality control in the LaNiO3 (LNO) heterostructure has attracted attention due to its two-dimensional (2D) electronic structure was predicted to have an orbital ordered insulating ground state, analogous to that of the parent…
We report an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy investigation of the Fermi surface and electronic band structure of BaCo$_{2}$As$_2$. Although its quasi-nesting-free Fermi surface differs drastically from that of its Fe-pnictide…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials may exhibit intriguing band structure features (e.g., Dirac points), that lay far away from the Fermi level. They are, thus, not usable in applications. The semiconducting 2D material PC6 has two Dirac cones…
We report density functional calculations of the electronic structure, Fermi surface, phonon spectrum, magnetism and electron-phonon coupling for the superconducting phase FeSe, as well as the related compounds FeS and FeTe. We find that…
Nozi$\grave{e}$res' exhaustion theory argues the temperature for coherently screening of all local moments in Kondo lattice could be much lower than the temperature of single moment screening with insufficient number of conduction…
Motivated by the report of superconductivity in bilayer La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ at high pressure, we examine the interacting electrons in this system. First-principles many-body theory is utilized to study the normal-state electronic properties.…