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Nonlinear transport plays a vital role in probing the quantum geometry of Bloch electrons, valley chirality, and carrier scattering mechanisms. The nonlinear Hall effect, characterized by a nonlinear scaling of Hall voltage with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Xin Liao , Xing-Yu Liu , An-Qi Wang , Qing Yin , Tong-Yang Zhao , Zhi-Min Liao

A spin valve represents a well-established device concept in magnetic memory technologies, whose functionality is determined by electron transmission being controlled by the relative alignment of magnetic moments of the two ferromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-23 Kai Huang , Kartik Samanta , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Two-dimensional (2D) van-der-Waals materials are a promising platform for exciton state engineering. In this paper, we study the properties of excitons in 2D group VI transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors that are modified by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Jose M. Torres-Lopez , Sudipta Kundu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Tony Heinz , Allan H. MacDonald

The chirality of electronic Bloch bands is responsible for many intriguing properties of layered two-dimensional materials. We show that in bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), unlike in few-layer graphene and monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-09 Andor Kormányos , Viktor Zólyomi , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , Guido Burkard

In single-layer WSe$_2$, a paradigmatic semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide, a circularly polarized laser field can selectively excite electronic transitions in one of the inequivalent $K^{\pm}$ valleys. Such selective valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Alejandro Molina-Sánchez , Davide Sangalli , Ludger Wirtz , Andrea Marini

We examine the full static non-linear optical response of uniaxially strained transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers doped with a finite carrier density in the conduction band, in the presence of disorder. We find that the customary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 Reza Asgari , Dimitrie Culcer

The altermagnetism caused by alternating crystal environment provides a unique opportunity for designing new type of valley polarization. Here, we propose a way to realize valley polarization in two-dimensional (2D) tetragonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 San-Dong Guo Xiao-Shu Guo , Guangzhao Wang

We propose, for the first time, a valley Seebeck effect in gate tunable zigzag graphene nanoribbons as a result of the interplay between thermal gradient and valleytronics. A pure valley current is further generated by the thermal gradient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 Zhizhou Yu , Fuming Xu , Jian Wang

We develop the theory of the spin and valley Hall effects in two-dimensional systems caused by asymmetric -- skew -- scattering of the quasiparticles. The collision integral is derived in the third order in the particle-particle interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 M. M. Glazov , L. E. Golub

We report on the possibility to simultaneously generate in graphene a {\it bulk valley-polarized dissipative transport} and a {\it quantum valley Hall effect} by combining strain-induced gauge fields and real magnetic fields. Such unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Mikkel Settnes , José Hugo García , Stephan Roche

Valleytronics harnesses the valley degree of freedom -- energy-degenerate extrema in the electronic band structure -- for information storage and processing. Valley Hall effect (VHE) is a cornerstone of valleytronics, enabling electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Jin Cao , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , Qian Niu , Shengyuan A. Yang

d-wave altermagnets have the magnetic octupole as their primary order parameter. A recent study [Han et al. arXiv 2409.14423 (2024)] demonstrated that magnetic octupole current can induce N\'eel vector dynamics. Therefore, identifying…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Insu Baek , Seungyun Han , Hyun-Woo Lee

We have investigated the valley degeneracy of MoS2 multilayers and its effect on thermoelectric properties. By modulating the layer thickness and external electric field, the hole valleys at {\Gamma} and K points in the highest energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-03 Jisook Hong , Changhoon Lee , Jin-Seong Park , Ji Hoon Shim

Gapped 2D Dirac materials, in which inversion symmetry is broken by a gap-opening perturbation, feature a unique valley transport regime. The system ground state hosts dissipationless persistent valley currents existing even when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Yuri D. Lensky , Justin C. W. Song , Polnop Samutpraphoot , Leonid S. Levitov

The theoretical results are presented showing that strain-induced anisotropy of graphene spectrum gives rise to the valley currents under the illumination by normally incident light. The currents of the two graphene valleys are mutually…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-13 T. L. Linnik

We propose ferroelectric layer sliding as a new approach to realize and manipulate topological quantum states in two-dimensional (2D) bilayer magnetic van der Waals materials. We show that stacking monolayer ferromagnetic topological states…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-13 Ning-Jing Yang , Jian-Min Zhang , Xiao-Ping Li , Zeying Zhang , Zhi-Ming Yu , Zhigao Huang , Yugui Yao

We theoretically introduce the fundamentally fastest induction of a significant population and valley polarization in a monolayer of a transition metal dichalcogenide (i.e., $\mathrm{MoS_2}$ and $\mathrm{WS_2}$). This may be extended to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 S. Azar Oliaei Motlagh , Jhih-Sheng Wu , Vadym Apalkov , Mark I. Stockman

In stacks of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers with arbitrary twisting angles, we explore a new class of bright excitons arising from the pronounced F\"{o}rster coupling, whose dimensionality is tuned by its in-plane momentum. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Ci Li , Wang Yao

Valley, as a degree of freedom, has been exploited to realize valley-selective Hall transport and circular dichroism in two-dimensional layered materials. On the other hand, orbital angular momentum of light with helical phase distribution…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Xiaodong Chen , Min Chen , Jianwen Dong

Although single-layer transition-metal dichalcogenides with novel valley functionalities are promising candidate to realize valleytronic devices, the essential understanding of valley depolarization mechanisms is still incomplete. Based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Tae-Young Jeong , Soungmin Bae , Seong-Yeon Lee , Suyong Jung , Yong-Hoon Kim , Ki-Ju Yee