The superconducting diode effect

M Nadeem, MS Fuhrer, X Wang - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
A superconducting diode enables supercurrent to flow in only one direction, providing new
functionalities for superconducting circuits. In recent years, there has been experimental …

Experimental perspective on three-dimensional topological semimetals

BQ Lv, T Qian, H Ding - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Topological semimetals (TSMs) are characterized by bulk band crossings in their electronic
structures, which are expected to give rise to gapless electronic excitations and topological …

Josephson diode effect from Cooper pair momentum in a topological semimetal

B Pal, A Chakraborty, PK Sivakumar, M Davydova… - Nature physics, 2022 - nature.com
Cooper pairs in non-centrosymmetric superconductors can acquire finite centre-of-mass
momentum in the presence of an external magnetic field. Recent theory predicts that such …

Terahertz Nonlinear Hall Rectifiers Based on Spin‐Polarized Topological Electronic States in 1T‐CoTe2

Z Hu, L Zhang, A Chakraborty, G D'Olimpio… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The zero‐magnetic‐field nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) refers to the second‐order transverse
current induced by an applied alternating electric field; it indicates the topological properties …

Ionic liquid gating induced self-intercalation of transition metal chalcogenides

F Wang, Y Zhang, Z Wang, H Zhang, X Wu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ionic liquids provide versatile pathways for controlling the structures and properties of
quantum materials. Previous studies have reported electrostatic gating of nanometer-thick …

Synthesis and characterization of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides: Recent progress from a vacuum surface science perspective

K Lasek, J Li, S Kolekar, PM Coelho, M Zhang… - Surface Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a diverse group of materials whose
properties vary from semiconducting to metallic with a variety of many body phenomena …

Two‐Dimensional Van Der Waals Topological Materials: Preparation, Properties, and Device Applications

G Zhang, H Wu, L Zhang, L Yang, Y Xie, F Guo, H Li… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, 2D van der Waals (vdW) topological materials (TMs), including
topological insulators and topological semimetals, which combine atomically flat 2D layers …

On-site synthesis and characterizations of atomically-thin nickel tellurides with versatile stoichiometric phases through self-intercalation

S Pan, M Hong, L Zhu, W Quan, Z Zhang, Y Huan… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Self-intercalation of native metal atoms in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal
dichalcogenides has received rapidly increasing interest, due to the generation of intriguing …

A chirality-based quantum leap

CD Aiello, JM Abendroth, M Abbas, A Afanasev… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
There is increasing interest in the study of chiral degrees of freedom occurring in matter and
in electromagnetic fields. Opportunities in quantum sciences will likely exploit two main …

Observation of highly anisotropic bulk dispersion and spin-polarized topological surface states in

A Chakraborty, J Fujii, CN Kuo, CS Lue, A Politano… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We present CoTe 2 as a type-II Dirac semimetal supporting Lorentz-symmetry violating Dirac
fermions in the vicinity of the Fermi energy. By combining first-principles ab initio …