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One of the most significant breakthroughs in physics of the last decade has been the discovery that materials with non-trivial topological properties for electronic, electromagnetic, acoustic and mechanical responses can be designed and…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-21 Xiang Ni , Simon Yves , Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alu

The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) materials with tailored properties is critical to meet the increasing demands of high-performance applications across flexible electronics, optoelectronics, catalysis, and energy storage. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-02 Zhongwei Liu , Zhimin Zhang , Xuwei Liu , Mingjia Yao , Xin He , Yuanhui Sun , Xin Chen , Lijun Zhang

Two-dimensional materials (2DM) and their derived heterostructures have electrical and optical properties that are widely tunable via several approaches, most notably electrostatic gating and interfacial engineering such as twisting. While…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Haoning Tang , Yiting Wang , Xueqi Ni , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Shanhui Fan , Eric Mazur , Amir Yacoby , Yuan Cao

Databases compiled using ab-initio and symmetry-based calculations now contain tens of thousands of topological insulators and topological semimetals. This makes the application of modern machine learning methods to topological materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Nikolas Claussen , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nicolas Regnault

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), black phosphorus (BP) and related derivatives, have attracted great attention due to their advantages of flexibility, strong light-matter…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Tiande Liu , Lei Tong , Xinyu Huang , Lei Ye

We report the design and fabrication of guiding patterns for topography-based searching of two-dimensional (2D) devices for scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements. Sub-micron geometric coordinate markers were etched into SiO2/Si…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-28 Huandong Chen , Hong Li , Yutao Li , He Zhao , Ming Lu , Kazuhiro Fujita , Abhay N. Pasupathy

The discoveries of intrinsically magnetic topological materials, including semimetals with a large anomalous Hall effect and axion insulators, have directed fundamental research in solid-state materials. Topological quantum chemistry has…

As Moore's law is gradually losing its effectiveness, developing alternative high-speed and low-energy-consuming information technology with post-silicon advanced materials is urgently needed. The successful application of tunneling…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-12 Lishu Zhang , Jun Zhou , Hui Li , Lei Shen , Yuan Ping Feng

The past decade has been especially creative for spintronics since the (re)discovery of various two dimensional (2D) materials. Due to the unusual physical characteristics, 2D materials have provided new platforms to probe the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-25 Wei Han

Only a few of the vast range of potential two-dimensional materials have been isolated or synthesised to date. Typically, 2D materials are discovered by mechanically exfoliating naturally occurring bulk crystals to produce atomically thin…

The field of two-dimensional topological semimetals, which emerged at the intersection of two-dimensional materials and topological materials, have been rapidly developing in recent years. In this article, we briefly review the progress in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-17 Xiaolong Feng , Jiaojiao Zhu , Weikang Wu , Shengyuan A. Yang

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

The discovery of topological insulators has reformed modern materials science, promising to be a platform for tabletop relativistic physics, electronic transport without scattering, and stable quantum computation. Topological invariants are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Jorrit Kruthoff , Jan de Boer , Jasper van Wezel

Nodal semimetals, materials systems with nodal-point or -line Fermi surfaces, are much sought after for their novel transport and topological properties. Identification of experimental materials candidates, however, has mainly relied on…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-06 Ru Chen , Hoi Chun Po , Jeffrey B. Neaton , Ashvin Vishwanath

Topological flat bands in two-dimensional (2D) moir\'e materials have emerged as promising platforms for exploring the interplay between topology and correlation effects. However, realistic calculations of moir\'e band topology using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Yunzhe Liu , Ethan Angerhofer , Kaijie Yang , Chao-Xing Liu , Jiabin Yu

Two-dimensional (2D) materials with large spin Hall effect (SHE) have attracted significant attention due to their potential applications in next-generation spintronic devices. In this work, we perform high-throughput (HTP) calculations to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-17 Fu Li , Xiaoxiong Liu , Vikrant Chaudhary , Ruiwen Xie , Chen Shen , Hao Wang , Hongbin Zhang

We present a symmetry-based exhaustive approach to explore the structural and compositional richness of two-dimensional materials. We use a ``combinatorial engine'' that constructs potential compounds by occupying all possible Wyckoff…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-25 Hai-Chen Wang , Jonathan Schmidt , Miguel A. L. Marques , Ludger Wirtz , Aldo H. Romero

Magnetic topological insulators and semi-metals have a variety of properties that make them attractive for applications including spintronics and quantum computation, but very few high-quality candidate materials are known. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-21 Kamal Choudhary , Kevin F. Garrity , Nirmal J. Ghimire , Naween Anand , Francesca Tavazza

Searching ferromagnetic semiconductor materials with electrically controllable spin polarization is a long-term challenge for spintronics. Bipolar magnetic semiconductors (BMS), with valence and conduction band edges fully spin-polarized in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-13 Haidi Wang , Qingqing Feng , Xingxing Li , Jinlong Yang

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have disrupted materials science due to the development of van der Waals technology. It enables the stacking of ultrathin layers of materials characterized by vastly different electronic structures to create…