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The degree of electronic coupling between individual layers in few-layer van der Waals heterostructures offers a route to engineer their magnetic, electronic, and optical functionalities. Using state-of-the-art first-principles…

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Noncollinear antiferromagnets offer much promise for antiferromagnetic spintronics and neuromorphic applications with a plethora of functional properties surpassing many competing magnetic systems. Films grown on mismatched substrates may…

This paper presents a mathematical and numerical analysis of the flatband wavefunctions occurring in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene at the "magic" twist angles. We show that the chiral model possesses an exact intra-valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Jie Wang , Yunqin Zheng , Andrew J. Millis , Jennifer Cano

The spin chirality, created by magnetic atoms, has been comprehensively understood to generate and control the magneto-optical effects. In comparison, the role of the crystal chirality that relates to nonmagnetic atoms has received much…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-05 Xiaodong Zhou , Wanxiang Feng , Xiuxian Yang , Guang-Yu Guo , Yugui Yao

Twisted graphene bilayers develop highly localised states around AA-stacked regions for small twist angles. We show that interaction effects may induce either an antiferromagnetic (AF) and a ferromagnetic (F) polarization of said regions,…

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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

Various noncollinear spin textures and magnetic phases have been predicted in twisted two-dimensional CrI$_3$ due to competing ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) interlayer exchange from moir\'e stacking - with potential…

Chirality manifests across multiple scales, yielding unique phenomena that break mirror symmetry. In chiral materials, unexpectedly large spin-filtering or photogalvanic effects have been observed even in materials composed of light…

We demonstrate that two-dimensional Kramers-Weyl fermions can be engineered in spin-orbit coupled twisted bilayers, where the chiral structure of these moir\'e systems breaks all mirror symmetries, confining Kramers-Weyl fermions to…

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Understanding magnetoelectric coupling in emerging van der Waals multiferroics is crucial for developing atomically thin spintronic devices. Here, we present a comprehensive first-principles investigation of magnetoelectric coupling in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Hui-Shi Yu , Xiao-Sheng Ni , Kun Cao

Chromium trihalides (CrI$_3$, CrBr$_3$ and CrCl$_3$) form a prominent family of isostructural insulating layered materials in which ferromagnetic order has been observed down to the monolayer. Here we provide a comprehensive computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-30 A. Molina-Sánchez , G. Catarina , D. Sangalli , J. Fernández-Rossier

Altermagnetism, as a new branch of magnetism independent of traditional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, has attracted extensive attention recently. At present, researchers have proved several kinds of three-dimensional altermagnets,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-13 Wencong Sun , Haoshen Ye , Li Liang , Ning Ding , Shuai Dong , Shan-shan Wang

We identify a "twin-twist" angle in orthorhombic two-dimensional magnets that maximizes interlayer orbital overlap and enables strong interfacial coupling. Focusing on the van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr, we show that this twist angle,…

Multiferroic materials, characterized by the coexisting of ferroelectric polarization (breaking spatial inversion symmetry) and magnetism (breaking time-reversal symmetry), with strong magnetoelectric coupling, are highly sought after for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-14 Wei Sun , Wenxuan Wang , Changhong Yang , Ying Liu , Xiaotian Wang , Shifeng Huang , Zhenxiang Cheng

We performed the detailed microscopic analysis of the inter-layer magnetic couplings for bilayer CrI$_3$. As the first step toward understanding the recent experimental observations and utilizing them for device applications, we estimated…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-10 Seung Woo Jang , Min Yong Jeong , Hongkee Yoon , Siheon Ryee , Myung Joon Han

Theoretical investigation demonstrates that the composite bilayer (i.e., chiral-magnetic/ferroelectric bilayer) offers the possibility of electric-induced magnetic Skyrmions [Phys. Rev. B \textbf{94}, 014311 (2016)]. In this Article, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-29 Zidong Wang , Malcolm Grimson

We use a first-principles calculations approach to reveal the electronic and magnetic properties of chromium diiodide (CrI$_2$) bilayers and establish a hierarchy of magnetic interactions across stable registries. The monolayer presents a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 B. Valdés-Toro , I. Ferreira-Araya , R. A. Gallardo , J. W. González

Twisted van der Waals bilayers provide an ideal platform to study the electron correlation in solids. Of particular interest is the 30 degree twisted bilayer honeycomb lattice system, which possesses an incommensurate moire pattern and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-02 Yu-Hao Shen , Wen-Yi Tong , He Hu , Jun-Ding Zheng , Chun-Gang Duan

Array-patterned CoPd-based heterostructures are created through e-beam lithography and plasma pretreatment that induces oxidation with depth gradient in the CoPd alloy films, breaking the central symmetry of the structure. Effects on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Wei-Hsiang Wang , Ching-Yang Pan , Chak-Ming Liu , Wen-Chin Lin , Pei-hsun Jiang

In this work, we investigate the emergence of topological spin textures in a ferromagnetically coupled bilayer chiral magnet by means of Monte Carlo simulations of a classical spin model including exchange interaction, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

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