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Open AccessSurface-dominated conductance scaling in Weyl semimetal NbAs
Protected surface states arising from non-trivial bandstructure topology in semimetals can potentially enable advanced device functionalities in compute, memory, interconnect, sensing, and communication. This ...
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Open AccessReal space characterization of nonlinear hall effect in confined directions
The nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) is a phenomenon which could produce a transverse Hall voltage in a time-reversal-invariant material. Here, we report the real space characterizations of NLHE evaluated through ...
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Open AccessLarge anomalous Hall effect and negative magnetoresistance in half-topological semimetals
Proposed mechanisms for large intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in magnetic topological semimetals include diverging Berry curvatures of Weyl nodes, anticrossing nodal rings or points of non-trivial bands....
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Axion optical induction of antiferromagnetic order
Using circularly polarized light to control quantum matter is a highly intriguing topic in physics, chemistry and biology. Previous studies have demonstrated helicity-dependent optical control of chirality and...
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Open AccessCausal structure of interacting Weyl fermions in condensed matter systems
The spacetime light cone is central to the definition of causality in the theory of relativity. Recently, links between relativistic and condensed matter physics have been uncovered, where relativistic particl...
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Open AccessUnconventional resistivity scaling in topological semimetal CoSi
Nontrivial band topologies in semimetals lead to robust surface states that can contribute dominantly to the total conduction. This may result in reduced resistivity with decreasing feature size contrary to co...
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Open AccessTuning the many-body interactions in a helical Luttinger liquid
In one-dimensional (1D) systems, electronic interactions lead to a breakdown of Fermi liquid theory and the formation of a Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid (TLL). The strength of its many-body correlations can be qua...
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Evidence of a room-temperature quantum spin Hall edge state in a higher-order topological insulator
Room-temperature realization of macroscopic quantum phases is one of the major pursuits in fundamental physics1,2. The quantum spin Hall phase3–6 is a topological quantum phase that features a two-dimensional ins...
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Open AccessPrediction of topological Dirac semimetal in Ca-based Zintl layered compounds CaM2X2 (M = Zn or Cd; X = N, P, As, Sb, or Bi)
Topological Dirac materials are attracting a lot of attention because they offer exotic physical phenomena. An exhaustive search coupled with first-principles calculations was implemented to investigate 10 Zin...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Observation of Weyl fermions in a magnetic non-centrosymmetric crystal
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Reply to: Detectivities of WS2/HfS2 heterojunctions
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Open AccessAntisite defect qubits in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
Being atomically thin and amenable to external controls, two-dimensional (2D) materials offer a new paradigm for the realization of patterned qubit fabrication and operation at room temperature for quantum inf...
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Open AccessGlide symmetry protected higher-order topological insulators from semimetals with butterfly-like nodal lines
Most topological insulators (TIs) discovered today in spinful systems can be transformed from topological semimetals (TSMs) with vanishing bulk gap via introducing the spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which manifest...
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Layer Hall effect in a 2D topological axion antiferromagnet
Whereas ferromagnets have been known and used for millennia, antiferromagnets were only discovered in the 1930s1. At large scale, because of the absence of global magnetization, antiferromagnets may seem to behav...
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Author Correction: High oscillator strength interlayer excitons in two-dimensional heterostructures for mid-infrared photodetection
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-021-00865-9.
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Two-dimensional MX Dirac materials and quantum spin Hall insulators with tunable electronic and topological properties
We propose a novel class of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials in the MX family (M = Be, Mg, Zn and Cd, X = Cl, Br and I), which exhibit graphene-like band structures with linearly-dispersing Dirac-cone stat...
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Open AccessTopologically distinct Weyl fermion pairs
A Weyl semimetal has Weyl nodes that always come in pairs with opposite chiralities. Notably, different ways of connection between nodes are possible and would lead to distinct topologies. Here we identify the...
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Open AccessSpin-orbit quantum impurity in a topological magnet
Quantum states induced by single-atomic impurities are at the frontier of physics and material science. While such states have been reported in high-temperature superconductors and dilute magnetic semiconducto...
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High oscillator strength interlayer excitons in two-dimensional heterostructures for mid-infrared photodetection
The development of infrared photodetectors is mainly limited by the choice of available materials and the intricate crystal growth process. Moreover, thermally activated carriers in traditional III–V and II–VI...
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Open AccessObservation of Weyl fermions in a magnetic non-centrosymmetric crystal
The absence of inversion symmetry in non-centrosymmetric materials has a fundamental role in the emergence of a vast number of fascinating phenomena, like ferroelectricity, second harmonic generation, and Weyl...
