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We present unconventional nodal crossings in a two-dimensional (2D) collinear altermagnet, which are enforced by crystal symmetries to lock spin polarization and valley degrees of freedom. The altermagnetism generate nonrelativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Zhang Meng-Han , Guo Xuan , Dao-Xin Yao

The generation of spatially homogeneous spin polarization by application of electric current is a fundamental manifestation of symmetry-breaking spin--orbit coupling (SOC) in solid-state systems, which underpins a wide range of spintronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-30 Alessandro Veneri , David T. S. Perkins , Csaba G. Péterfalvi , Aires Ferreira

The ability to control magnetic interactions at the nanoscale is crucial for the development of next-generation spintronic devices and functional magnetic materials. In this work, we investigate theoretically, by means of many-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Tomas T. Osterholt , D. O. Oriekhov , Lumen Eek , Cristiane Morais Smith , Rembert A. Duine

Altermagnets have recently emerged as promising materials for next-generation spintronic devices. For their device applications, realizing a single-domain configuration is essential but remains challenging. We theoretically consider…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Seungyun Han , Insu Baek , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , Suik Cheon

We present a theoretical analysis of valley pseudospin control in the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayer by utilizing the magnetic proximity effect of 2D magnetic layer and, propose self-consistent analysis of photoluminescence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 V. N. Mantsevich

We establish a unified, symmetry-driven framework that combines the alternating spin splitting of altermagnets with valley topology to realize and electrically interconvert helical and chiral topological phases within a single material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Xianzhang Chen , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Jiahui Qian , Ziye Zhu , Igor Zutic , Zhenyu Zhang , Tong Zhou

Exploring the coupling between layer, magnetism, valley, and topology in two-dimensional (2D) materials is an important approach to deepen our understanding of materials properties. We propose 27 stable ferromagnetic semiconductor…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-03 Xinyu Tian , Zixuan Zhang , Lixiu Guan , Xiaobiao Liu , Xiaoyu Zhao , Linyang Li

We investigate physical properties that can be used to distinguish the valley degree of freedom in systems where inversion symmetry is broken, using graphene systems as examples. We show that the pseudospin associated with the valley index…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-10 Di Xiao , Wang Yao , Qian Niu

In monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides time-reversal symmetry, combined with space-inversion symmetry, defines the spin-valley degree of freedom. As such, engineering and control of time-reversal symmetry by optical or magnetic…

The low energy band structure of graphene has two inequivalent valleys at K and K' points of the Brillouin zone. The possibility to manipulate this valley degree of freedom defines the field of valleytronics, the valley analogue of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Mikkel Settnes , Stephen R. Power , Mads Brandbyge , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Inversion symmetry breaking allows contrasted circular dichroism in different k-space regions, which takes the extreme form of optical selection rules for interband transitions at high symmetry points. In materials where band-edges occur at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-05 Wang Yao , Di Xiao , Qian Niu

In the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-TBG), strong electron-electron (e-e) correlations caused by the band-flattening lead to many exotic quantum phases such as superconductivity, correlated insulator, ferromagnetism, and quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-29 Ya-Ning Ren , Chen Lu , Yu Zhang , Si-Yu Li , Yi-Wen Liu , Chao Yan , Zi-Han Guo , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Fan Yang , Lin He

Out-of-plane polar domain structures have recently been discovered in strained and twisted bilayers of inversion symmetry broken systems such as hexagonal boron nitride. Here we show that this symmetry breaking also gives rise to an…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-02 Daniel Bennett , Gaurav Chaudhary , Robert-Jan Slager , Eric Bousquet , Philippe Ghosez

Mechanical deformations in $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattices induce local pseudomagnetic fields of opposite directionality for different valleys. When this strain is equipped with a dynamical drive, it generates a complementary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Alexander Filusch , Holger Fehske

Valley-selective optical selection rules and a spin-valley locking in transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers are at the heart of "valleytronic physics", which exploits the valley degree of freedom and has been a major research…

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides have emerged as prominent candidates to explore the complex interplay between the spin and the valleys degrees of freedom. The strong spin-orbit interaction and broken inversion symmetry within…

Here we study the evolution of local electronic properties of a twisted graphene bilayer induced by a strain and a high curvature. The strain and curvature strongly affect the local band structures of the twisted graphene bilayer; the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Wei Yan , Wen-Yu He , Zhao-Dong Chu , Mengxi Liu , Lan Meng , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Electrons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess both the valley and spin degree of freedom. These internal quantum degrees of freedom have provided an ideal laboratory for exploring both new physical phenomena and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Zefang Wang , Jie Shan , kin Fai Mak

The electronic properties of van der Waals (vdW) structures can be substantially modified by the moire superlattice potential, which strongly depends on the twist angle among the compounds. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), two low-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Ya-Ning Ren , Yu Zhang , Yi-Wen Liu , Lin He

Polarized wavelength-tunable electroluminescence (EL) represents a critical on-demand functionality for next-generation optoelectronics. While conventional van der Waals (vdW) EL devices offer discrete wavelength switching constrained by…