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Excitonic quasiparticle and their interactions with phonons, magnons and charge carriers may play a pivotal role in governing the optical properties and their correlation with magnetic interactions in two-dimensional (2D) magnetic…
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The compounds Ca(Fe1-xNix)2As2 with the tetragonal ThCr2Si2-type structure (space group I4/mmm) show a continuous transition of the interlayer As-As distances from a non-bonding state in CaFe2As2 (dAs-As = 313 pm) to single-bonded…
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit a remarkably strong Coulomb interaction that manifests in tightly bound excitons. Due to the complex electronic band structure exhibiting several spin-split valleys in the conduction…
Fe3-xGeTe2 is an itinerant ferromagnet composed of two-dimensional layers weakly connected by van der Waals bonding that shows a variety of intriguing phenomena. Inelastic neutron scattering measurements on bulk single crystals of…
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