Quantum states and intertwining phases in kagome materials

Y Wang, H Wu, GT McCandless, JY Chan… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstracts In solid materials, non-trivial topological states, electron correlations and
magnetism are central ingredients for realizing quantum properties, including …

Discovery of a single-band Mott insulator in a van der Waals flat-band compound

S Gao, S Zhang, C Wang, S Yan, X Han, X Ji, W Tao… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
The Mott insulator provides an excellent foundation for exploring a wide range of strongly
correlated physical phenomena, such as high-temperature superconductivity, quantum spin …

Correlated flat bands and quantum spin liquid state in a cluster Mott insulator

J Hu, X Zhang, C Hu, J Sun, X Wang, HQ Lin… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Flat bands are rare in pristine solids and are unstable against electronic correlations or other
types of long-range order. Unlike atomic-scale Hubbard systems or Moiré materials, where …

Nb3Cl8: a prototypical layered Mott-Hubbard insulator

S Grytsiuk, MI Katsnelson, EGCP Loon… - npj Quantum …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite its simplicity and relevance for the description of electronic correlations in solids, the
Hubbard model is seldom inarguably realized in real materials. Here, we show that …

Layer Control of Magneto-Optical Effects and Their Quantization in Spin-Valley Splitting Antiferromagnets

J Feng, X Zhou, M Xu, J Shi, Y Li - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Magneto-optical effects (MOE), interfacing the fundamental interplay between magnetism
and light, have served as a powerful probe for magnetic order, band topology, and valley …

Possible quantum-spin-liquid state in van der Waals cluster magnet Nb3Cl8

B Liu, Y Zhang, X Han, J Sun, H Zhou… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The cluster magnet Nb 3 Cl 8 consists of Nb 3 trimmers that form an emergent S=
1/2 two-dimensional triangular layers, which are bonded by weak van der Waals …

Pressure-induced metallic state in a van der Waals cluster Mott insulator Nb3Cl8

PF Shan, X Han, X Li, ZY Liu, PT Yang, BS Wang… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
We report on the pressure-induced metallization of a van der Waals cluster Mott insulator Nb
3 Cl 8 by employing the resistivity measurements under high pressure. Upon compression …

Two-dimensional Kagome Materials: Theoretical Insights, Experimental Realizations, and Electronic Structures

Z Zhang, J Dai, C Wang, H Zhu, F Pang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In recent years, kagome materials have attracted significant attention due to their rich
emergent phenomena arising from the quantum interplay of geometry, topology, spin, and …

Topological Hall effect in strongly correlated layered magnets: The effect of the spin of the magnetic atoms and of the polar and azimuthal angles subtended by the …

KK Kesharpu - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The topological properties are investigated for strongly correlated materials having
honeycomb lattice structures and spin texture S ⃗= S [sin (q ⃗ 1 r ⃗) cos (q ⃗ 2 r ⃗), sin (q ⃗ …

Metal-insulator transition in a correlated bilayer kagome model

C Hu, H Qu, X Zhang, XQ Wang, HQ Lin, G Li - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Correlated bilayer systems, fundamental to various transition metal compounds, exhibit
intriguing phenomena due to the intrinsic competition between interlayer and intralayer …