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Observation of Fermi-surface-dependent anisotropic Cooper pairing in kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5 Open

Akifumi Mine, Yigui Zhong, Zhiwei Wang, Yugui Yao · 2025

In the recently discovered kagome superconductor A V 3 Sb 5 ( A = K, Rb, and Cs), superconductivity is intertwined with an unconventional charge density wave order. The pairing symmetry remains elusive owing to the lack of direct measureme…

Observation of Van Hove singularity interband plasmons in the kagome metal CsV 3 Sb 5 for strong light-matter interactions Open

Xiangji Meng, Chong Wang, Maoyuan Wang, Jinjin Liu, Pai Zhou , et al. · 2025

Van Hove singularities (VHSs) play a critical role in determining the properties of topological and correlated electronic states. Their associated excitations offer unique opportunities for exploring light-matter interactions reshaped by t…

CrTa0.5Nb0.5O4: A solid solution strategy to enhance the mechanical and thermal properties of rutile structured ternaries Open

Shuang Zhang, Yugui Yao, Xiaohui Wang, Huimin Xiang, Cheng Fang , et al. · 2025

Pressure induced transition from chiral charge order to time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconducting state in Nb-doped CsV3Sb5 Open

J. N. Graham, S. S. Islam, V. Sazgari, Y. Li, Hanbin Deng , et al. · 2025

Understanding how time-reversal symmetry (TRS) breaks in quantum materials is key to uncovering new states of matter and advancing quantum technologies. However, unraveling the interplay between TRS breaking, charge order, and superconduct…

Direct experimental validation on the crystal structure, chemical bonding, and magnetic properties of CrB 2 Open

Yugui Yao, Shuang Zhang, Huimin Xiang, Cheng Fang, Wei Xie , et al. · 2025

CrB2 crystallizes in an AlB2-type crystal structure, and the chemical bonding in CrB2 includes B sp2‒B sp2 covalent bonds in the graphite-analogous six-numbered B ring, B pz‒Cr 3d covalent‒ionic bonds, and Cr‒Cr metallic bonds from theoret…

A Predictive Framework for Designing Chiral Charge Density Wave Quantum Materials Open

Guoqing Chang, Sen Shao, Wei-Chi Chiu, Md Shafayat Hossain, Tao Hou , et al. · 2025

Implementing and tuning chirality is fundamental in physics, chemistry, and materials science. Chiral charge density waves (CDWs), where chirality arises from correlated charge orders, are attracting intense interest due to their exotic tr…

Novel spin dynamics in the superconducting state of kagomé superconductor Open

M. Shibata, Hidemitsu Takahashi, Shuhei Oguchi, Shunsaku Kitagawa, K. Ishida , et al. · 2025

The kagomé lattice, characterized by its unique geometry, hosts exotic electronic structures such as Dirac points, flat bands, and van Hove singularities, which are closely linked to electronic instabilities. Recently, the AV3Sb5 family (A…

Topological excitonic insulator with tunable momentum order Open

Md Shafayat Hossain, Zi‐Jia Cheng, Yu-Xiao Jiang, Tyler A. Cochran, Song-Bo Zhang , et al. · 2025

Correlated topological materials often maintain a delicate balance among physical symmetries. Many topological orders are symmetry protected, whereas most correlated phenomena arise from spontaneous symmetry breaking. Cases where symmetry …

Discovery of terahertz-frequency orbitally coupled magnons in a kagome ferromagnet Open

Mengqian Che, Weizhao Chen, Maoyuan Wang, F. Michael Bartram, Liangyang Liu , et al. · 2025

In ferromagnetic materials, magnons—quanta of spin waves—typically resonate in the gigahertz range. Beyond conventional magnons, while theoretical studies have predicted magnons associated with orbital magnetic moments, their direct observ…

Silicon nano-kirigami with controlled plastic, elastic and hysteretic deformations Open

Qinghua Liang, Zhiguang Liu, Yu Han, Shang Chen, Haozhe Sun , et al. · 2025

Nano-kirigami, inspired by the art of paper cutting and folding, offers a promising approach to three-dimensional (3D) nanomanufacturing by simply transforming two-dimensional (2D) precursors into complex 3D architectures. Here we report a…

Anomalous Hall Effect in Type IV 2D Collinear Magnets Open

NULL AUTHOR_ID, Run-Wu Zhang, Wanxiang Feng, Yugui Yao · 2025

We identify a previously unrecognized class of two-dimensional (2D) collinear magnetic phase that extends beyond the established categories of ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, and altermagnets. These type IV 2D collinear magnets exhibit spi…

Macroscale optimal size of ICM vesicles regulated by quantum design principle in LH2 structure Open

Ying Zhang, Qian-Jin Chu, Luchao Du, Yugui Yao, Hailong Chen , et al. · 2025

The photosynthetic bacterial light-harvesting antenna complex 2 (LH2), consisting of ring-like bacteriochlorophylls aggregates, constitutes an optimal excitonic structure for efficient energy transfer. Any distortion from this structure wo…

Sliding Ferroelectrics Induced Hybrid-Order Topological Phase Transitions Open

Ningjing Yang, Jian‐Min Zhang, Xiao-Ping Li, Zeying Zhang, Zhi‐Ming Yu , et al. · 2025

We propose ferroelectric layer sliding as a new approach to realize and manipulate topological quantum states in two-dimensional (2D) bilayer magnetic van der Waals materials. We show that stacking monolayer ferromagnetic topological state…

First-principles calculations of solid-phase enthalpy of formation of energetic materials Open

Lixiang Zhong, Danyang Liu, Mingwei Hu, Xiaoning Yang, Ruibin Liu , et al. · 2025

Broken symmetries associated with a Kagome chiral charge order Open

Zi‐Jia Cheng, Md Shafayat Hossain, Qi Zhang, Sen Shao, Jinjin Liu , et al. · 2025

Electric Hall Effect and Quantum Electric Hall Effect Open

Yugui Yao, Chaoxi Cui, Run-Wu Zhang, Yuhui Qiu, Yilin Han , et al. · 2025

Exploring new Hall effect is always a fascinating research topic. The ordinary Hall effect and the quantum Hall effect, initially discovered in two-dimensional (2D) non-magnetic systems, are the phenomena that a trans verse current is gene…

Correction to “Twist-Dependent Semiconductor-to-Metal Transition in Epitaxial Bilayer α-Antimonene” Open

Peiyao Xiao, Ji Li, Douxing Pan, Yongkai Li, Kejun Yu , et al. · 2025

The crystal structure of the double salt potassium 1-methylpiperazine-1,4-di-ium trinitrate, C5H14KN5O9 Open

Yiping Shang, Junying Wu, Yugui Yao, Run Liu, Danyang Liu , et al. · 2025

C 5 H 14 KN 5 O 9 , orthorhombic, Pbca (no. 61), a = 10.4760(3) Å, b = 14.0476(4) Å, c = 17.3708(5) Å, V = 2,556.33(13) Å 3 , Z = 8, T = 100 K, R gt ( F ) = 0.0226, wR ref ( F 2 ) = 0.0607.

Field induced density wave in a kagome superconductor Open

Md Shafayat Hossain, Qi Zhang, Julian Ingham, Jinjin Liu, Sen Shao , et al. · 2025

On the kagome lattice, electrons benefit from the simultaneous presence of band topology, flat electronic bands, and van Hove singularities, forming competing or cooperating orders. Understanding the interrelation between these distinct or…

High-Power Nanosecond Pulse Laser Ignition of Al/Ni Energetic Composites at High Heating Rate Open

Yage He, Ruibin Liu, Xianshuang Wang, Yugui Yao, Rui Liu , et al. · 2025

Essentially degenerate hidden nodal lines in two-dimensional magnetic layer groups Open

Xiao-Ping Li, Chaoxi Cui, Lei Wang, Weikang Wu, Zeying Zhang , et al. · 2024

According to the theory of group representations, the types of band degeneracy can be divided into accidental degeneracy and essential degeneracy. The essentially degenerate nodal lines (NLs) are typically resided on the high-symmetry line…

Topological phase transition in quasi-one-dimensional bismuth iodide Bi4I4 Open

Wenxuan Zhao, Ming Yang, Xian Du, Yidian Li, K. Y. Zhai , et al. · 2024

Quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) bismuth iodide Bi 4 I 4 exhibits versatile topological phases of matter including weak topological insulator (WTI) and higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) phases with high tunability in response to ex…

Unconventional gapping behavior in a kagome superconductor Open

Md Shafayat Hossain, Qi Zhang, Eun Sang Choi, Danilo Ratkovski, Bernhard Lüscher , et al. · 2024

Determining the types of superconducting order in quantum materials is a challenge, especially when multiple degrees of freedom, such as bands or orbitals, contribute to the fermiology and when superconductivity competes, intertwines, or c…

Planar Hall plateau in magnetic Weyl semimetals Open

Lei Li, Chaoxi Cui, Run‐Wu Zhang, Zhi‐Ming Yu, Yugui Yao · 2024

Despite the rapid progress in the study of planar Hall effect (PHE) in recent years, all the previous works only showed that the PHE is connected to local geometric quantities, such as Berry curvature. Here, for the first time, we point ou…

Shear-resistant topology in quasi one-dimensional van der Waals material Bi$_4$Br$_4$ Open

Jonathan N. Hofmann, Hoyeon Jeon, Saban M. Hus, Yuqi Zhang, Mingqian Zheng , et al. · 2024

Bi$_4$Br$_4$ is a prototypical quasi one-dimensional (1D) material in which covalently bonded bismuth bromide chains are arranged in parallel, side-by-side and layer-by-layer, with van der Waals (vdW) gaps in between. So far, two different…

Tuning the Magnetism in Ultrathin CrxTey Films by Lattice Dimensionality Open

Guangyao Miao, Minghui Gu, Haojie Sun, Pan Chen, Jiade Li , et al. · 2024

2D magnetic crystals with atomic thickness exhibit intriguing physical properties, which have attracted considerable research interest in the related materials’ family, both in fundamental research and in developing spintronic devices. The…

Chiral magnons in an altermagnetic Janus Monolayer Open

Haodong Yu, Wanxiang Feng, Fawei Zheng, Yugui Yao · 2024

Chiral magnons in altermagnets have attracted significant attention due to their unique spin transport phenomenon in the absence of strong spin–orbit coupling. Here, we explore a novel structure, square lattice Janus Mn2SeTe (s-Mn2SeTe) mo…

A Predictive First-Principles Framework of Chiral Charge Density Waves Open

Sen Shao, Wei-Chi Chiu, Md Shafayat Hossain, Tao Hou, Naizhou Wang , et al. · 2024

Implementing and tuning chirality is fundamental in physics, chemistry, and material science. Chiral charge density waves (CDWs), where chirality arises from correlated charge orders, are attracting intense interest due to their exotic tra…

Orbital torque switching in perpendicularly magnetized materials Open

Yuhe R. Yang, Ping Wang, Jiali Chen, Delin Zhang, Pan Chang , et al. · 2024

Non-collapsing electric readout of arbitrary Andreev qubits Open

Xianpeng Zhang, Chuanchang Zeng, Zhen‐Biao Yang, José Carlos Egues, Yugui Yao · 2024

Nondemolition protocols use ancilla qubits to identify the fragile quantum state of a qubit without destroying its encoded information, thus playing a crucial role in nondestructive quantum measurements particularly relevant for quantum er…

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