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In this article we provide a general mechanism for generating interaction-enabled fermionic topological phases. We illustrate the mechanism with crystalline symmetry-protected topological phases in 1D and 2D. These non-trivial phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-23 Matthew F. Lapa , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Taylor L. Hughes

Type-II semi-Dirac fermions in two dimensions have been proposed to describe topologically nontrivial low-energy excitations in titanium/vanadium oxide heterostructures. These quasiparticles appear at the merger of three Dirac cones,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-19 Mohamed M. Elsayed , Taras I. Lakoba , Valeri N. Kotov

Altermagnets (AMs) are an emergent class of magnetic materials that combine properties of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, exhibiting spin-polarized Fermi surfaces and zero net magnetic moment due to combined time-reversal and crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Zesen Fu , Mengli Hu , Aolin Li , Haiming Duan , Junwei Liu , Fangping Ouyang

Metallic antiferromagnets are essential for efficient spintronic applications due to their fast switching and high mobility, yet room-temperature metallic antiferromagnets are rare. Here, we investigate YbMn$_2$Ge$_2$, a room temperature…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-17 Nirmalya Jana , Atasi Chakraborty , Anamitra Mukherjee , Amit Agarwal

Analogues of the elementary particles, Dirac fermions in condensed matter have received extensive attention for both scientific interest and device applications. In this work, we generalize the concept of Dirac semimetal (DSM) to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-12 Guiyuan Hua , Simin Nie , Zhida Song , Rui Yu , Gang Xu , Kailun Yao

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal nitrides have a wide prospect of applications in the fields of physics, chemistry, materials, etc. However, 2D transition metal nitrides with strong magnetism, especially high N$\rm \acute{e}$el…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Lujia Tian , Lihui Han , Yuanfang Yue , Huazhen Li , Z. Y. Xie , Xun-Wang Yan

GdRu$_2$Si$_2$, a centrosymmetric magnet with a square lattice of Gd atoms, hosts a short-period skyrmion square lattice (SkL) without Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). RKKY-type exchange between the Gd moments results in an exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-13 Sagar Sarkar , Rohit Pathak , Arnob Mukherjee , Anna Delin , Olle Eriksson , Vladislav Borisov

We study the role of long-range electron-electron interactions in a system of two-dimensional anisotropic Dirac fermions, which naturally appear in uniaxially strained graphene, graphene in external potentials, some strongly anisotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-24 Anand Sharma , Valeri N. Kotov , Antonio H. Castro Neto

Altermagnets have emerged as a fertile ground for quantum phenomena, but topological phases unifying different quasiparticles remain largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate that monolayer AgF$_2$ hosts a dual topological state, driven by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 J. W. González , R. A. Gallardo , N. Vidal-Silva , A. M. León

The double-exchange (DE) interaction, that is, a ferromagnetic (FM) interaction due to a combination of electron motion and the Hund coupling, is a well known source of a wide class of FM orders. Here, we show that the DE interaction in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Atsushi Ono , Sumio Ishihara

In antiferromagnetically coupled superlattices grown on (001) faces of cubic substrates, e.g. based on materials combinations as Co/Cu, Fe/Si, Co/Cr, or Fe/Cr, the magnetic states evolve under competing influence of bilinear and biquadratic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 U. K. Roessler , A. N. Bogdanov

The combination of charge and spin degrees of freedom with electronic correlations in condensed matter systems leads to a rich array of phenomena, such as magnetism, superconductivity, and novel conduction mechanisms. While such phenomena…

The interplay between localized magnetic moments and itinerant electrons gives rise to exotic quantum states in condensed matter systems. Two-dimensional moire superlattices offer a powerful platform for engineering heavy fermion states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Le Zhang , Wenqiang Zhou , Xinjie Fang , Zhen Zhan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Yi-feng Yang , Shuigang Xu

We study the formation of ferromagnetic and magnetic polaron states in weakly doped heterobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides in the ``heavy fermion'' limit in which one layer hosts a dense set of local moments and the other hosts a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-12 Daniele Guerci , J. H. Pixley , Andrew J. Millis

We show that the magnetic response of atomically thin materials with Dirac spectrum and spin-orbit interactions can exhibit strong dependence on electron-electron interactions. While graphene itself has a very small spin-orbit coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Sanghita Sengupta , Madalina I. Furis , Oleg P. Sushkov , Valeri N. Kotov

We report infrared studies of AFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ (A = Ba, Sr), two representative parent compounds of iron-arsenide superconductors, at magnetic fields (B) up to 17.5 T. Optical transitions between Landau levels (LLs) were observed in the…

Two-dimensional multiferroics promise low-power, multifunctional devices, yet the intrinsic coexistence and mutual control of three coupled ferroic orders in a single layer remains elusive. Here, we identify pentagonal monolayer FeO$_2$ as…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Deping Guo , Jiaqi Dai , Renhong Wang , Cong Wang , Wei Ji

We develop the field theory of antiferromagnets to layered structures on BCT crystal lattices with nearest-neibour and next-nearest-neighbour ferro- and/or antiferromagnetic interactions. For this aim the field theoretical counterpart of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-09 Dimo I. Uzunov

Transition metal halides are quasi-two-dimensional van der Waals magnets that can potentially host antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmions induced by competing exchange interactions. We study theoretically magnetic states of Fe-doped NiBr$_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-29 Alessio Pozzi , Maxim Mostovoy

Electrides, with excess anionic electrons confined in their empty space, are promising for uses in catalysis, nonlinear optics and spin-electronics. However, the application of electrides is limited by their high chemical reactivity with…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-03 Xuhui Yang , Kevin Parrish , Yan-Ling Li , Baisheng Sa , Hongbing Zhan , Qiang Zhu