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We investigate the spin-ordered states in multilayer massless Dirac fermion systems under magnetic fields, in which the intralayer interaction is ferromagnetic owing to the exchange interaction, while the interlayer interaction is…
Altermagnets represent a new class of magnetic phases without net magnetization that are invariant under a combination of rotation and time reversal. Unlike conventional collinear antiferromagnets (AFM), altermagnets could lead to new…
We propose a novel ferroelectric switchable altermagnetism effect, the reversal of ferroelectric polarization is coupled to the switching of altermagnetic spin splitting. We demonstrate the design principles for the ferroelectric…
Three-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by the presence of a bandgap in their bulk and gapless Dirac fermions at their surfaces. New physical phenomena originating from the presence of the Dirac fermions are predicted to…
The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even-parity-wave) collinear compensated spin ordering, which…
Emergent Dirac fermions provide the starting point to understanding the plethora of novel condensed matter phases. The nature of the associated phases and phase transitions crucially depends on both the emergent symmetries as well as the…
The Ce(Co,Rh,Ir)In$_5$ family of ``Ce-115'' materials hosts an abundance of correlated electron behavior, including heavy-fermion physics, magnetism, superconductivity and nematicity. The complicated behavior of these entangled phenomena…
We introduce the notion of a band-inverted, topological semimetal in two-dimensional nonsymmorphic crystals. This notion is materialized in the monolayers of MTe$_2$ (M $=$ W, Mo) if spin-orbit coupling is neglected. We characterize the…
Altermagnetism is a recently identified class of magnetic order characterized by unconventional momentum-dependent spin splitting in the absence of net magnetization, and understanding its electronic and magnetic properties is essential for…
We investigate the topological properties of modified Dirac Hamiltonians with an altermagnetic mass term and reveal a novel mechanism for realizing altermagnetic Weyl semimetals. Unlike the conventional Wilson mass, the altermagnetic mass…
Altermagnets have emerged as a fertile ground for quantum phenomena, but topological phases unifying different quasiparticles remain largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate that monolayer AgF$_2$ hosts a dual topological state, driven by a…
We explore the possibilities for spin-singlet superconductivity in newly discovered altermagnets. Investigating $d$-wave altermagnets, we show that finite-momentum superconductivity can easily emerge in altermagnets even though they have no…
We consider the recently discovered Dirac semimetals with two Dirac points $\pm{\bf K}$. In the presence of elastic deformations each fermion propagates in a curved space, whose metric is defined by the expansion of the effective…
We investigate the altermagnetic properties of strongly-correlated transition metal oxides considering the family of the quasi two-dimensional A2BO4 and three-dimensional ABO3. As a test study, we analyze the Mott insulators Ca2RuO4 and…
We study the intrinsic spin Hall effect of a Dirac Hamiltonian system with ferromagnetic exchange coupling, a minimal model combining relativistic spin-orbit interaction and ferromagnetism. The energy bands of the Dirac Hamiltonian are…
Altermagnetism is a collinear magnetic order in which opposite spin species are exchanged under a real-space rotation. Hence, the search for physical realizations has focussed on crystalline solids with specific rotational symmetry. Here,…
Magnetic topological materials, in which the time-reversal symmetry is broken, host various exotic quantum phenomena, including the quantum anomalous Hall effect, axion insulator states, and Majorana fermions. The study of magnetic…
The interplay between unconventional magnetism and band topology in two-dimensional materials has emerged as an important theme in condensed matter physics. Here, we present first-principles calculations that reveal the coexistence of…
Topological semimetals have recently attracted extensive research interests as host materials to condensed matter physics counterparts of Dirac and Weyl fermions originally proposed in high energy physics. These fermions with linear…
We study the formation of ferromagnetic and magnetic polaron states in weakly doped heterobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides in the ``heavy fermion'' limit in which one layer hosts a dense set of local moments and the other hosts a…