Anisotropy-induced phase transitions in an intrinsic half-Chern insulator Ni<sub>2</sub>I<sub>2</sub>-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Anisotropy-induced phase transitions in an intrinsic half-Chern insulator Ni₂I₂

Published:2022 Issue:36 Volume:14 Page:13378-13388
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Liu Lei¹²,Huan Hao¹²,Xue Yang¹³,Bao Hairui¹²,Yang Zhongqin¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences (MOE) & Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

2. Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, Shanghai 200030, China

3. School of Science, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China

Abstract

An intrinsic half-Chern insulator, possessing 100% spin-polarized edge states, is found in Ni2I2 monolayers. A combined state of a half metal and a half-Chern insulator occurs in the material under strain, associated with the unique anisotropic bands.

Funder

Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/NR/D2NR02599J

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