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Electrons and holes can spontaneously form excitons and condense in a semimetal or semiconductor, as predicted decades ago. This type of Bose condensation can happen at much higher temperatures in comparison with dilute atomic gases.…
This paper presents an ab initio methodology to account for electron-phonon interactions in 2D materials, focusing on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). It combines density functional theory and maximally localized Wannier functions…
The sound propagation properties resulting from a dynamical axion insulator generated from a Weyl semimetal are explored. Due to the axial electron-phonon coupling, the speed of sound in the material and its attenuation is seen to be…
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Out-of-plane vibrations are considered as the dominant factor limiting the intrinsic carrier mobility of suspended two-dimensional materials at low carrier concentrations. Anharmonic coupling between in-plane and flexural phonon modes is…
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