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We develop the theoretical framework for calculating magnetic noise from conducting two-dimensional (2D) materials. We describe how local measurements of this noise can directly probe the wave-vector dependent transport properties of the…
We consider quasi-two-dimensional gas of electrons in a typical Si-MOSFET, assuming repulsive contact interaction between electrons. Magnetisation and susceptibility are evaluated within the mean-field approach. Finite thickness of the…
Magnetic MXenes are turning out to be an important family of materials for exploring 2D magnetism. However, investigations into the inter-dependence of layer thickness, stacking patterns and magnetism in these materials, from a microscopic…
Layered quasi-two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), which can be readily made in ultrathin films, offer excellent opportunities for studying how dimensionality affects electronic structure and physical properties. Among…
At high enough charge density, the homogeneous state of the D3-D7' model is unstable to fluctuations at nonzero momentum. We investigate the end point of this instability, finding a spatially modulated ground state, which is a charge and…
Motivated by recent photoemission measurements on the La$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_2$, we carry out a systematic study of the infinite-layer nickelate using both dynamical mean-field theory and density matrix embedding theory. The renormalized…
Controlling the crystal structure is a powerful approach for manipulating the fundamental properties of solids. Unique to two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials, the control can be achieved by modifying the stacking order through…
Electronic scattering is a powerful tool to identify underlying changes in electronic behavior and incipient electronic and magnetic orders. The nematic and magnetic phases are strongly intertwined under applied pressure in FeSe, however,…
We study the phases of correlated charge-density waves that form at a high magnetic field in two parallel graphene flakes separated by a thin insulator. The predicted phases include the square and hexagonal charge-density-wave bubbles, and…
Inhomogeneity in the ground state is an intriguing, emergent phenomenon in magnetism. Recently, it has been observed in the magnetostructural channel of the geometrically frustrated $\alpha$-NaMnO$_2$, for the first time in the absence of…
The relation of the magnetically dead layer and structural defects in ultrafine interacting NiFe2O4 nanoparticles (<d> = 4 nm) have been investigated using transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, ^57Fe M\"ossbauer spectroscopy,…
We present a first-principles study of the effect of 3$d$ transition metal intercalation on the magnetic properties of the 2H-NbS$_2$ system, using spin-resolved density functional theory calculations to investigate the electronic structure…
We report a ground state with strongly coupled magnetic and charge density wave orders mediated via orbital ordering in the layered compound \tbt. In addition to the commensurate antiferromagnetic (AFM) and charge density wave (CDW) orders,…
The electronic ground states of transition-metal dichalcogenides are strongly shaped by reduced dimensionality, yet the properties of atomically thin layers remain difficult to probe due to their small size and environmental sensitivity.…
Atomically thin NbSe2 is a metallic layered transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) with considerably different crystallographic structure and electronic properties from other TMDs, such as MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2. Properties of TMD atomic…
We investigate the occurrence of magnetic and charge density wave instabilities in rhombohedral-stacked multilayer (three to eight layers) graphene by first principles calculations including exact exchange. Neglecting spin-polarization, an…
Different instabilities have been speculated for a three-dimensional electron gas confined to its lowest Landau level. The phase transition induced in graphite by a strong magnetic field, and believed to be a Charge Density Wave (CDW), is…
Employment of the non-trivial proximity effect in Superconductor/Ferromagnet (S/F) heterostructures for creation of novel superconducting devices requires an accurate control of magnetic states in complex thin-film multilayers composing…
Emergence of topological states in strongly correlated systems, particularly two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides, offers a platform for manipulating electronic properties in quantum materials. However, a comprehensive…
We explored the anomalously low moment in MnSi found by experiment (~0.4 $\mu_{\text{B}}$/Mn) vs the moment predicted by density functional theory (~1.0 $\mu_{\text{B}}$/Mn). With the addition of a Hubbard-U correction, we found several…