The rise of xene hybrids

P Kumar, G Singh, X Guan, S Roy, J Lee… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Xenes, mono‐elemental atomic sheets, exhibit Dirac/Dirac‐like quantum behavior. When
interfaced with other 2D materials such as boron nitride, transition metal dichalcogenides …

Spin-polarized spatially indirect excitons in a topological insulator

R Mori, S Ciocys, K Takasan, P Ai, K Currier… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The exciton, a bound state of an electron and a hole, is a fundamental quasiparticle induced
by coherent light–matter interactions in semiconductors. When the electrons and holes are …

Dynamically induced excitonic instability in pumped Dirac materials

A Pertsova, AV Balatsky - Annalen der Physik, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Driven and non‐equilibrium quantum states of matter have attracted growing interest in both
theoretical and experimental studies in condensed matter physics. Recent progress in …

Widely Tunable Optical and Thermal Properties of Dirac Semimetal Cd3As2

HT Chorsi, S Yue, PP Iyer, M Goyal… - Advanced Optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, a detailed analysis of the temperature‐dependent optical properties of
epitaxially grown cadmium arsenide (Cd3As2), a newly discovered 3D Dirac semimetal is …

Millimetre-long transport of photogenerated carriers in topological insulators

Y Hou, R Wang, R Xiao, L McClintock… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Excitons are spin integer particles that are predicted to condense into a coherent quantum
state at sufficiently low temperature. Here by using photocurrent imaging we report …

[HTML][HTML] Similar ultrafast dynamics of several dissimilar Dirac and Weyl semimetals

CP Weber, BS Berggren, MG Masten… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Recent years have seen the rapid discovery of solids whose low-energy electrons have a
massless, linear dispersion, such as Weyl, line-node, and Dirac semimetals. The remarkable …

Pump-driven normal-to-excitonic insulator transition: Josephson oscillations and signatures of BEC-BCS crossover in time-resolved ARPES

E Perfetto, D Sangalli, A Marini, G Stefanucci - Physical Review Materials, 2019 - APS
We consider a ground-state band insulator turning into a nonequilibrium excitonic insulator
(NEQ-EI) upon visiting properly selected and physically relevant highly excited states. The …

Excitons and carriers in transient absorption and time-resolved ARPES spectroscopy: An ab initio approach

D Sangalli - Physical Review Materials, 2021 - APS
I present a fully ab initio scheme to model transient spectroscopy signals in the presence of
strongly bound excitons. Using LiF as a prototype material, I show that the scheme is able to …

Prolonged duration of nonequilibrated Dirac fermions in neutral topological insulators

K Sumida, Y Ishida, S Zhu, M Ye, A Pertsova, C Triola… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Topological insulators (TIs) possess spin-polarized Dirac fermions on their surface but their
unique properties are often masked by residual carriers in the bulk. Recently,(Sb1− x Bi x) …

Floquet Topological Phase of Nondriven -Wave Nonequilibrium Excitonic Insulators

E Perfetto, G Stefanucci - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The nontrivial topology of p-wave superfluids makes these systems attractive candidates in
information technology. In this work we report on the topological state of ap-wave …