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The coupling between magnetic order and ferroelectricity has been under intense investigation in a wide range of transition-metal oxides. The strongest coupling is obtained in so-called magnetically-induced multiferroics where…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 V. S. Zapf , M. Kenzelmann , F. Wolff-Fabris , F. Balakirev , Y. Chen

According to the recent studies on sliding/moire ferroelectricity, most 2D van der Waals nonferroelectric monolayers can become ferroelectric via multilayer stacking. In this paper we propose that similar strategy can be used to induce…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Yuxuan Sheng , Junwei Liu , Jia Zhang , Menghao Wu

van der Waals stacking of two-dimensional (2D) materials offers a powerful platform for engineering material interfaces with tailored electronic and optical properties. While most van der Waals multilayers have featured inorganic…

The advent of topological phases of matter revealed a variety of observed boundary phenomena, such as chiral and helical modes found at the edges of two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators. Antichiral states in 2D semimetals, i.e.,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 M. Michael Denner , J. L. Lado , Oded Zilberberg

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator materials feature topologically protected edge states that can drastically reduce dissipation and are useful for the next-generation electronics. However, the nonvolatile control of topological edge state…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-30 Hua Bai , Xinwei Wang , Weikang Wu , Pimo He , Zhu'an Xu , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu

The interplay between band topology and magnetic order plays a key role in quantum states of matter. MnBi2Te4, a van der Waals magnet, has recently emerged as an exciting platform for exploring Chern insulator physics. Its layered…

Experimental demonstrations of tunable correlation effects in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have put two-dimensional moir\'e quantum materials at the forefront of condensed-matter research. Other twisted few-layer graphitic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-27 Michael M. Scherer , Dante M. Kennes , Laura Classen

Electric-field switching of magnetic order is of significant physical interest and holds great potential for spintronic applications. However, it has rarely been reported in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnets due to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-06 Chengxi Huang , Jinzhe Han , Jing Wang , Jintao Jiang , Ziyang Qu , Fang Wu , Ang Li , Yi Wan , Kaiyou Wang , Erjun Kan

The formalism of composite and intertwined orders has been remarkably successful in discussing the complex phase diagrams of strongly correlated materials and high-$T_c$ superconductors. Here, we propose that composite orders are also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-13 R. Matthias Geilhufe

The field of two-dimensional (2D) materials has expanded to multilayered systems where electronic, optical, and mechanical properties change-often dramatically-with stacking order, thickness, twist, and interlayer spacing [1-5]. For…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-27 Suk Hyun Sung , Noah Schnitzer , Lola Brown , Jiwoong Park , Robert Hovden

We introduce a microscopic model for collinear multiferroics capable to reproduce, as a consequence of magnetic frustration and easy-axis anisotropy, the so-called "uudd" (or antiphase) magnetic ordering observed in several type II…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-21 D. C. Cabra , A. O. Dobry , C. J. Gazza , G. L. Rossini

The bistability of charge polarization in ferroelectric materials has long been the basis of ferroelectric devices. However, the ferroelectricity tends to be vanishing as the thickness of materials is reduced to a few nanometers or thinner…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-22 Guoliang Yu , Shengxian Li , Anlian Pan , Mingxing Chen , Zhenyu Zhang

There have been several proposals for platforms sustaining topological superconductivity in high temperature superconductors, in order to make use of the larger superconducting gap and the expected robustness of Majorana zero modes towards…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-29 Mainak Pal , Andreas Kreisel , P. J. Hirschfeld

The emerging field of twistronics, which harnesses the twist angle between two-dimensional materials, represents a promising route for the design of quantum materials, as the twist-angle-induced superlattices offer means to control topology…

Van der Waals (vdW) materials have greatly expanded our design space of heterostructures by allowing individual layers to be stacked at non-equilibrium configurations, for example via control of the twist angle. Such heterostructures not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Xirui Wang , Kenji Yasuda , Yang Zhang , Song Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Liang Fu , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

The stacking of intrinsically magnetic van der Waals materials provides a fertile platform to explore tunable transport effects of magnons, presenting significant prospects for spintronic applications. The possibility of having…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Zhi-Xing Lin , Shu Zhang

Twisted van der Waals materials have risen as highly tunable platform for realizing unconventional superconductivity. Here we demonstrate how a topological superconducting state can be driven in a twisted graphene multilayer at a twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Maryam Khosravian , Elena Bascones , Jose L. Lado

Twisted magnetic van der Waals (vdW) materials offer a promising route for multiferroic engineering, yet modeling large-scale moir\'e superlattices remains challenging. Leveraging a newly developed SpinGNN++ framework that effectively…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Haiyan Zhu , Hongyu Yu , Weiqin Zhu , Guoliang Yu , Changsong Xu , Hongjun Xiang

The interplay between ferroelectricity and band topology can give rise to a wide range of both fundamental and applied research. Here, we map out the emergence of nontrivial corner states in two-dimensional ferroelectrics, and remarkably…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-01 Ning Mao , Runhan Li , Xiaorong Zou , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Chengwang Niu

Multiferroics, showing simultaneous ordering of electrical and magnetic degrees of freedom, are remarkable materials as seen from both the academic and technological points of view. A prominent mechanism of multiferroicity is the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-31 P. Lunkenheimer , J. Müller , S. Krohns , F. Schrettle , A. Loidl , B. Hartmann , R. Rommel , M. de Souza , C. Hotta , J. A. Schlueter , M. Lang