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We show that inversion symmetry breaking together with spin-orbit coupling leads to coupled spin and valley physics in monolayers of MoS2 and other group-VI dichalcogenides, making possible controls of spin and valley in these 2D materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-09 Di Xiao , Gui-Bin Liu , Wanxiang Feng , Xiaodong Xu , Wang Yao

Valley-Hall phases, first proposed in two-dimensional (2D) materials, originate from nontrivial topologies around valleys which denote local extrema in momentum space. Since they are extended into classical systems, their designs draw…

The band structure of many semiconducting monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possesses two degenerate valleys, with equal and opposite Berry curvature. It has been predicted that, when illuminated with circularly polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Nicolas Ubrig , Sanghyun Jo , Marc Philippi , Davide Costanzo , Helmuth Berger , Alexey B. Kuzmenko , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We find that the motion of the valley electrons -- electronic states close to the ${\rm K}$ and ${\rm K'}$ points of the Brillouin zone -- is confined into two dimension when the layers of MoS$_{2}$ follow the 3R stacking, while in the 2H…

We present a systematic study of the nonlinear thermal Hall responses in bosonic systems using the quantum kinetic theory framework. We demonstrate the existence of an intrinsic nonlinear boson thermal current, arising from the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Harsh Varshney , Rohit Mukherjee , Arijit Kundu , Amit Agarwal

We investigate the intrinsic nonlinear valley Nernst effect, which induces a transverse valley current via a second-order thermoelectric response to a longitudinal temperature gradient. The effect arises from the Berry connection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Xue-Jin Zhang , Jin Cao , Lulu Xiong , Hui Wang , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

Using first-principles calculations within density functional theory, we investigate the intrinsic spin Hall effect in monolayers of group-VI transition-metal dichalcogenides MX2 (M = Mo, W and X = S, Se). MX2 monolayers are direct band-gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-10 Wanxiang Feng , Yugui Yao , Wenguang Zhu , Jinjian Zhou , Wang Yao , Di Xiao

The topological valley Hall effect was predicted as a consequence of the bulk topology of electronic systems. Now it has been observed in photonic crystals, showing that both topology and valley are innate to classical as well as quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Fan Zhang

We uncover a new origin of the planar Hall effect - as an intrinsic property of layer coherent electrons - that exists even in bilayer and trilayer atomically thin limit. It reforms the existing theories requiring three-dimensional orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Huiyuan Zheng , Dawei Zhai , Cong Xiao , Wang Yao

Nonlinear charge transport, such as nonreciprocal longitudinal resistance and nonlinear Hall effect, has attracted considerable interest in probing the symmetries and topological properties of new materials. Recent research has revealed…

Valleytronics targets the exploitation of the additional degrees of freedom in materials where the energy of the carriers may assume several equal minimum values (valleys) at non-equivalent points of the reciprocal space. In single layers…

The topological properties of a material's electronic structure are encoded in its Berry curvature, a quantity which is intimately related to the transverse electrical conductivity. In transition metal dichalcogenides with broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Fei Xue , V. P. Amin , P. M. Haney

Hall effect of topological quantum materials often reveals essential new physics and possesses potential for application. Magnetic Weyl semimetal is one especially interesting example that hosts an interplay between the spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors such as molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) hold great promise in electrical, optical, and mechanical devices and display novel physical phenomena such as coupled spin-valley physics and the…

We predict the existence and study properties of the valley Hall edge solitons in a composite photonic graphene with a domain wall between two honeycomb lattices with broken inversion symmetry. Inversion symmetry in our system is broken due…

Electronic and spintronic devices rely on the fact that free charge carriers in solids carry electric charge and spin, respectively. There are, however, other properties of charge carriers that might be exploited in new families of devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kin Fai Mak , Keliang He , Jie Shan , Tony F. Heinz

The valley dependent optical selection rules in recently discovered monolayer group-VI transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) make possible optical control of valley polarization, a crucial step towards valleytronic applications. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-31 Rui-Lin Chu , Xiao Li , Sanfeng Wu , Qian Niu , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Chuanwei Zhang

This study delves into the intrinsic nonlinear valley thermal effects, driven by the Quantum Metric of the system. Our findings elucidate that valley indices in the nonlinear effect are distinguishable by the thermoelectric correction to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Shivam Sharma , Abir De Sarkar

Intrinsic Hall conductivity, emerging when chiral symmetry is broken, is at the heart of future low energy consumption devices because it can generate non-dissipative charge neutral current. A symmetry breaking state is also induced by…

The quantum magnetotransport properties of a monolayer of molybdenum disulfide are derived using linear response theory. Especially, the effect of topological terms on longitudinal and Hall conductivity is analyzed. The Hall conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-22 SK Firoz Islam , Colin Benjamin