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By codoping sulfur and copper into lead apatite, the crystal grains are directionally stacked and the room-temperature resistivity is reduced from insulating to $2\times10^{-5}~\Omega\cdot$m. The resistance-temperature curve exhibits a…
Based on symmetry arguments and the latest density functional results for the copper-substituted lead phosphate apatite (`LK-99'), we show that, at the non-interacting level, the material is an inversion-asymmetric Weyl semimetal. A pair of…
To reveal the relative importance of charge doping and defect scattering in substitutionally modified 122 iron pnictides, we perform a systematic first principles study on selected bands at the Fermi level. Disorder effects are induced by…
Based on the first-principles electronic structure calculations, we investigate the magnetic and electronic properties of transition-metal-doped Pb$_{10}$(PO$_4$)$_6$O with the Pb atom substituted by various transition metals. The $3d$…
The hope that copper doped lead apatite Pb$_9$Cu(PO$_4$)$_6$O is a room-temperature superconductor has largely been dashed by global research efforts. Nevertheless, according to the current state of knowledge, the material has interesting…
The claims that a copper-substituted lead apatite, denoted as CuPb$_9$(PO$_4$)$_6$OH$_2$, could be a room-temperature superconductor have led to an intense research activity. While other research groups did not confirm these claims, and the…
A recent report of room temperature superconductivity at ambient pressure in Cu-substituted apatite (`LK99') has invigorated interest in the understanding of what materials and mechanisms can allow for high-temperature superconductivity.…
The octahedral tilting and ferroelectric-like structural transition of LiOsO3 metallic perovskite [Nature Materials 12, 1024 (2013)] was examined using first-principles density-functional theory. In LiOsO3, a-a-a- octahedral titling mode is…
Using first principles calculations we show that several alkali lead halides potentially present collective ferroelectric polarization. This should occur at least at the nanoscale; it could be detected macroscopically provided it is not…
We investigate the electronic and magnetic properties of copper-doped Pb$_{10}$(PO$_4$)$_6$O using a combination of density functional theory and many-body perturbation theory. The flat half-filled electronic band at the Fermi level is…
Strong coupling among spontaneous structural symmetric breaking, magnetism and metallicity in an intrinsic polar magnetic metal can give rise to novel physical phenomena and holds great promise for applications in spintronics. Here, we…
Ferroelectricity, a hallmark of spontaneous inversion-symmetry breaking, has been a central concept in condensed matter physics and functional materials research, yet recent discoveries are revealing that switchable polarization can emerge…
The existing controversies about the space group symmetries of Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3 (PZT) above and below antiferrodistortive (AFD) phase transition temperature (TAFD) in the Zr4+- rich (0.620<x<0.940) compositions are addressed using the results…
We analyze the symmetry changes of the paramagnetic to the A-type antiferromagnetic and to the ferromagnetic phase transitions in undoped and moderately doped LaMnO$_3$, respectively. We show that in the orthorhombic-distorted perovskite…
We develop a DFT screening procedure for copper-substituted lead apatites of the composition Pb$_9$Cu(XO$_4$)$_6$Y that enforces three design rules: thermodynamic stability, Cu site preference, and symmetry robustness of the near-Fermi…
Bismuth ferrite, BiFeO3, is a multiferroic solid that is attracting increasing attention as a potential photocatalytic material, because the ferroelectric polarisation enhances the separation of photogenerated carriers. With the motivation…
Perovskite oxide ferroelectrics show classical soft mode behaviour typical for the onset of a homogeneous long-range polar state and a displacive phase transition. Besides these long wave length properties, local effects are observed by…
X-ray scattering measurements are performed in order to verify % that the mechanism leading to the DC electric field induced $C_{2v}^{19} \to C_{2v}^{\neq 19}$ phase transition in KDP crystal at 119 K is the changing of the local sites…
At variance with structural ferroic phase transitions which give rise to macroscopic tensors coupled to macroscopic fields, criteria defining antiferroelectric (AFE) phase transitions are still under discussion due to the absence of…
Recently, Cu-substituted lead apatite LK-99 was reported to have room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductivity. Here we utilize density functional theory (DFT) total energy and harmonic phonon calculations to investigate the…