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We study the nonlinear Hall effect in superconductors without magnetic fields induced by a quantum geometric phase (i.e., the Aharonov-Bohm phase) carried by single or pair particles. We find that the second-order nonlinear Hall…

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Recently, atomically thin PdSe$_2$ semiconductors with rare pentagonal Se-Pd-Se monolayers were synthesized and were also found to possess superior properties such as ultrahigh air stability, and high carrier mobility, thus offering a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-21 Vijay Kumar Gudelli , Guang-Yu Guo

Symmetry is a cornerstone of condensed matter physics, fundamentally shaping the behavior of electronic systems and inducing the emergence of novel phenomena. The Hall effect, a key concept in this field, demonstrates how symmetry breaking,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Shuo Wang , Wei Niu , Yue-Wen Fang

The Hall effect occurs only in systems with broken time-reversal symmetry, such as solids under an external magnetic field in the ordinary Hall effect and magnetic materials in the anomalous Hall effect (AHE). Here we show a new Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Kaifei Kang , Tingxin Li , Egon Sohn , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

Topological properties in quantum materials are often governed by symmetry and tuned by crystal structure and external fields, and hence symmetry-sensitive nonlinear optical measurements in a magnetic field are a valuable probe. Here we…

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We study the anomalous Hall effect, magneto-optical properties, and nonlinear optical properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate as well as twisted double bilayer graphene systems. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Jianpeng Liu , Xi Dai

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been attracting significant interest due to a range of properties, such as layer-dependent inversion symmetry, valley-contrasted Berry curvatures, and strong spin-orbit coupling…

Orbital Hall effect (OHE) is the phenomenon of transverse flow of orbital moment in presence of an applied electric field. Solids with broken inversion symmetry are expected to exhibit a strong OHE due to the presence of an intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Sayantika Bhowal , S. Satpathy

The orbital-Hall effect (OHE), similarly to the spin-Hall effect (SHE), refers to the creation of a transverse flow of orbital angular momentum that is induced by a longitudinally applied electric field. For systems in which the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Luis M. Canonico , Tarik P. Cysne , Tatiana G. Rappoport , R. B. Muniz

Transition metal dichalcogenides like 2H-NbSe2 in their two-dimensional (2D) form exhibit Ising superconductivity with the quasiparticle spins are firmly pinned in the direction perpendicular to the basal plane. This enables them to…

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect is promising for achieving dissipationless transport devices due to the robust gapless states inside insulating bulk gap. Here, by using first-principles calculations, we discover group-IV chalcogenide Si2Te2…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-18 Run-wu Zhang , Wei-xiao Ji , Chang-wen Zhang , Ping Li , Pei-ji Wang

Unconventional responses upon breaking discrete or crystal symmetries open avenues for exploring emergent physical systems and materials. By breaking inversion symmetry, a nonlinear Hall signal can be observed, even in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Z. Z. Du , C. M. Wang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

We report the experimental observation of Ising superconductivity in 3-dimensional NbSe2 stacked with single-layer MoS2. The angular dependence of the upper critical magnetic field and the temperature dependence of the upper parallel…

We evidenced unconventionnal Anomalous Hall Effects (AHE) in 3d/5d (Co0.2nm/Ni0.6nm)N multilayers grown on a thin Pt layer or thin Au:W alloy. The inversion observed on AHE originates from the opposite sign of the spin-orbit coupling of Pt…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 T. Huong Dang , Q. Barbedienne , Q. D. To , E. Rongione , N. Reyren , F. Godel , S. Collin , J. M. George , H. Jaffrès

The presence of a non-centrosymmetric crystal structure and in-plane mirror symmetry allows an Ising spin-orbit coupling to form in some two-dimensional materials. Examples include transition metal dichalcogenide superconductors like…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-04 Subhojit Roy , Andreas Kreisel , Brian M. Andersen , Shantanu Mukherjee

The paramount acumen for controlling spin transport properties in nonmagnetic materials is the usage of spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We propose a model to calculate the spin hall angle (SHA) for the elemental transition metal dichalcogenide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Swastik Sahoo , Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

It is well-known that a non-vanishing Hall conductivity requires time-reversal symmetry breaking. However, in this work, we demonstrate that a Hall-like transverse current can occur in second-order response to an external electric field in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Inti Sodemann , Liang Fu

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

Nonreciprocal devices that allow the light propagation in only one direction are indispensable in photonic circuits and emerging quantum technologies. Contemporary optical isolators and circulators, however, require large size or strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-12 Shingo Toyoda , Manfred Fiebig , Taka-hisa Arima , Yoshinori Tokura , Naoki Ogawa

Three-dimensional topological insulators are a class of Dirac materials, wherein strong spin-orbit coupling leads to two-dimensional surface states. The latter feature spin-momentum locking, i.e., each momentum vector is associated with a…

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