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Paul, Janet Lu, Sohum Shah, Stephen R. Xie, and Richard G. Hennig Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 076002 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 | Researchers have demonstrated a way to sift a database of crystalline compounds for structures that can be separated into useful one-dimensional materials. | | | | | | Editors' Suggestion Erik Cheah, Daniel Z. Haxell, Rüdiger Schott, Peng Zeng, Ekaterina Paysen, Sofieke C. ten Kate, Marco Coraiola, Max Landstetter, Ali B. Zadeh, Achim Trampert, Marilyne Sousa, Heike Riel, Fabrizio Nichele, Werner Wegscheider, and Filip Krizek Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 073403 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 | The interface quality in semiconductor/superconductor (SE/SC) platforms plays a crucial role for the superconducting coupling strength. In this work, a novel growth approach to grow grain-boundary-free Al on a lattice-mismatched InAs quantum well is introduced. More specifically, a monocrystalline Al phase is achieved by intentional roughening of the semiconductor surface. This approach can in general be applied to other mismatched material systems where a high degree of crystallinity is essential. Furthermore, the authors investigate the altered interfaces in transport measurements, hoping to shed more light upon the pressing question: "What is the role of the detailed crystallography of the SC for the performance of SE/SC hybrid devices?" | | | | | | Editors' Suggestion K. Wang, L. Wang, I-L. Liu, F. Boschini, M. Zonno, M. Michiardi, E. Rotenberg, A. Bostwick, D. Graf, B. J. Ramshaw, A. Damascelli, and J. Paglione Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074205 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 | Following the discovery of topological insulators, new classes of topological materials such as Dirac, Weyl, and "nodal" semimetals have attracted considerable interest. This work reports an experimental exploration of RhSb3, a symmorphic cubic unfilled skutterudite compound that was predicted to host a quasi-linear electronic band dispersion long before the topological revolution. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, magnetotransport, and quantum oscillation measurements are used to confirm this material family to host a symmetry-enforced Fermi degeneracy, complete with nonzero Berry phase and location of the Fermi energy in the linear regime of the system's valence band. | | | | | | Editors' Suggestion Christopher M. Pasco, Binod K. Rai, Matthias Frontzek, Gabriele Sala, Matthew B. Stone, Bryan C. Chakoumakos, V. Ovidiu Garlea, Andrew D. Christianson, and Andrew F. May Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074407 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 | The Shastry-Sutherland (SS) model is one of the few solvable models for emergent properties of frustrated spin systems. However, relatively few materials realize an interacting spin network that is topologically equivalent to the SS model. In this work, researchers have expanded the material space with a foundational study of single crystalline BaNd2PtO5, which contains an effective SS lattice of Nd moments. A complex three-dimensional magnetic structure was observed via neutron single crystal diffraction. This spin structure is associated with a large magnetic anisotropy and a particularly strong sensitivity of the magnetization to the crystal orientation. These results offer an interesting new candidate for studying the physics associated with the SS model and establish a high sensitivity to crystal orientation as a guide when studying related materials. | | | | | | Editors' Suggestion Ameya Rao, Brian R. Carrick, Helen Yao, and Bradley D. Olsen Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 075602 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 | In this study, associative polymer hydrogels formed by well-defined artificial proteins are found to exhibit unexpected submolecular dynamics, including a suppression of segmental diffusion with junction density and self-similar diffusive behavior in gels of different strand lengths and numbers of stickers per chain. These properties are in contrast to conventional polymer gels, demonstrating the rich physics of transient bonds in physically associating systems on molecular-scale dynamics. | | | | | | Editors' Suggestion Letter Konstantin Shapovalov and Massimiliano Stengel Phys. Rev. Materials 7, L071401 (2023) – Published 12 July 2023 | Though antiferroelectricity in PbZrO3 was discovered over 70 years ago, there is still no consensus on the exact physical mechanism behind its formation. In this study, the authors rationalize the antiferroelectric Pbam state of PbZrO3 as a modulated phase, where polarization and antiphase O6 octahedra tilts are coupled via a trilinear gradient term – the so-called rotopolar coupling. A Landau-like continuum Hamiltonian, with gradient terms calculated directly from first principles, gives an accurate description of the energetics and structure of the Pbam phase. Besides reconciling the existing theories on PbZrO3, this study may facilitate the understanding of other modulated structures in perovskites, including ferrielectric and incommensurate phases. | | | | | | Magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials | Editors' Suggestion Letter Konstantin Shapovalov and Massimiliano Stengel Phys. Rev. Materials 7, L071401 (2023) – Published 12 July 2023 | Though antiferroelectricity in PbZrO3 was discovered over 70 years ago, there is still no consensus on the exact physical mechanism behind its formation. In this study, the authors rationalize the antiferroelectric Pbam state of PbZrO3 as a modulated phase, where polarization and antiphase O6 octahedra tilts are coupled via a trilinear gradient term – the so-called rotopolar coupling. A Landau-like continuum Hamiltonian, with gradient terms calculated directly from first principles, gives an accurate description of the energetics and structure of the Pbam phase. Besides reconciling the existing theories on PbZrO3, this study may facilitate the understanding of other modulated structures in perovskites, including ferrielectric and incommensurate phases. | | | | | | Superconducting materials | Letter Qi Zhang et al. Phys. Rev. Materials 7, L071801 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 | | | Other electronic materials | Letter Vrindaa Somjit and Bilge Yildiz Phys. Rev. Materials 7, L072001 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023 | | | Crystal growth, crystallization, and kinetics | Yuta Kato, Meng-Jie Huang, Keito Kasebayashi, Takateru Kawakami, Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Jens Buck, Ru-Pan Wang, Matthias Kalläne, Kai Rossnagel, Peter Nagel, Stefan Schuppler, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Takao Odake, Shogo Kawaguchi, Ikuya Yamada, and Atsushi Hariki Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 073401 (2023) – Published 11 July 2023 | | | Kirill Titov, Matthew R. Ryder, Aran Lamaire, Zhixin Zeng, Abhijeet K. Chaudhari, James Taylor, E. M. Mahdi, Sven M. J. Rogge, Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay, Svemir Rudić, Veronique Van Speybroeck, Felix Fernandez-Alonso, and Jin-Chong Tan Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 073402 (2023) – Published 19 July 2023 | | | Editors' Suggestion Erik Cheah, Daniel Z. Haxell, Rüdiger Schott, Peng Zeng, Ekaterina Paysen, Sofieke C. ten Kate, Marco Coraiola, Max Landstetter, Ali B. Zadeh, Achim Trampert, Marilyne Sousa, Heike Riel, Fabrizio Nichele, Werner Wegscheider, and Filip Krizek Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 073403 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 | The interface quality in semiconductor/superconductor (SE/SC) platforms plays a crucial role for the superconducting coupling strength. In this work, a novel growth approach to grow grain-boundary-free Al on a lattice-mismatched InAs quantum well is introduced. More specifically, a monocrystalline Al phase is achieved by intentional roughening of the semiconductor surface. This approach can in general be applied to other mismatched material systems where a high degree of crystallinity is essential. Furthermore, the authors investigate the altered interfaces in transport measurements, hoping to shed more light upon the pressing question: "What is the role of the detailed crystallography of the SC for the performance of SE/SC hybrid devices?" | | | | | | Structural and mechanical properties | Vatsa Gandhi, Suraj Ravindran, Akshay Joshi, and Guruswami Ravichandran Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 073601 (2023) – Published 6 July 2023 | | | Shuang Lyu, Wei Li, Yuanhang Xia, Yue Chen, and Alfonso H. W. Ngan Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 073602 (2023) – Published 6 July 2023 | | | Jan Grießer, Lucas Frérot, Jonas A. Oldenstaedt, Martin H. Müser, and Lars Pastewka Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 073603 (2023) – Published 10 July 2023 | | | Luca Stefanescu, Max Boleininger, and Pui-Wai Ma Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 073604 (2023) – Published 13 July 2023 | | | Aya Nawano, Weiwei Jin, Jan Schroers, Mark D. Shattuck, and Corey S. O'Hern Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 073605 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023 | | | Yuchu Wang, Bita Ghaffari, Christopher Taylor, Simon Lekakh, Carlos Engler-Pinto, Larry Godlewski, Yang Huo, Mei Li, and Yue Fan Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 073606 (2023) – Published 27 July 2023 | | | Development of new methods for materials | Abhiyan Pandit and Angelo Bongiorno Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 073801 (2023) – Published 11 July 2023 | | | Two-dimensional materials | Jiaqi Xin, Yaguang Guo, and Qian Wang Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074001 (2023) – Published 7 July 2023 | | | Yu Zhou, Dianlong Zhao, Feng Wang, Yue Shi, Zhiwei Ma, Ruijing Fu, Kai Wang, Yongming Sui, Qingfeng Dong, Guanjun Xiao, and Bo Zou Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074002 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 | | | Mohammad Amirabbasi and Marcus Ekholm Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074003 (2023) – Published 28 July 2023 | | | Topological and Dirac materials | Adam Hassan Denawi, Xavier Bouju, Mathieu Abel, Johannes Richter, and Roland Hayn Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074201 (2023) – Published 5 July 2023 | | | Zhenyao Fang and Andrew M. Rappe Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074202 (2023) – Published 17 July 2023 | | | Mingze Li, Dan Han, Zhenhua Wang, Bing Li, Teng Yang, Zhe Zhang, Fei Gao, Han Wang, Xinguo Zhao, Da Li, and Zhidong Zhang Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074203 (2023) – Published 19 July 2023 | | | M. M. Piva, J. C. Souza, G. A. Lombardi, K. R. Pakuszewski, C. Adriano, P. G. Pagliuso, and M. Nicklas Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074204 (2023) – Published 19 July 2023 | | | Editors' Suggestion K. Wang, L. Wang, I-L. Liu, F. Boschini, M. Zonno, M. Michiardi, E. Rotenberg, A. Bostwick, D. Graf, B. J. Ramshaw, A. Damascelli, and J. Paglione Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074205 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 | Following the discovery of topological insulators, new classes of topological materials such as Dirac, Weyl, and "nodal" semimetals have attracted considerable interest. This work reports an experimental exploration of RhSb3, a symmorphic cubic unfilled skutterudite compound that was predicted to host a quasi-linear electronic band dispersion long before the topological revolution. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, magnetotransport, and quantum oscillation measurements are used to confirm this material family to host a symmetry-enforced Fermi degeneracy, complete with nonzero Berry phase and location of the Fermi energy in the linear regime of the system's valence band. | | | | | | Magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials | Shrinkhala Sharma, Hong Li, Zheng Ren, Wilber Alfaro Castro, and Ilija Zeljkovic Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074401 (2023) – Published 5 July 2023 | | | Jacob Casey, S. Shanmukharao Samatham, Christopher Burgio, Noah Kramer, Asraf Sawon, Jamaal Huff, and Arjun K. Pathak Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074402 (2023) – Published 12 July 2023 | | | B. C. Yu, J. Y. Yang, D. J. Gawryluk, Y. Xu, Q. F. Zhan, T. Shiroka, and T. Shang Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074403 (2023) – Published 17 July 2023 | | | Hong-Xiong Liu (刘宏雄), Shan-Shan Miao (苗杉杉), Hai L. Feng (冯海), and You-Guo Shi (石友国) Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074405 (2023) – Published 21 July 2023 | | | Oleksandr I. Malyi, Xin-Gang Zhao, and Alex Zunger Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074406 (2023) – Published 21 July 2023 | | | Editors' Suggestion Christopher M. Pasco, Binod K. Rai, Matthias Frontzek, Gabriele Sala, Matthew B. Stone, Bryan C. Chakoumakos, V. Ovidiu Garlea, Andrew D. Christianson, and Andrew F. May Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074407 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 | The Shastry-Sutherland (SS) model is one of the few solvable models for emergent properties of frustrated spin systems. However, relatively few materials realize an interacting spin network that is topologically equivalent to the SS model. In this work, researchers have expanded the material space with a foundational study of single crystalline BaNd2PtO5, which contains an effective SS lattice of Nd moments. A complex three-dimensional magnetic structure was observed via neutron single crystal diffraction. This spin structure is associated with a large magnetic anisotropy and a particularly strong sensitivity of the magnetization to the crystal orientation. These results offer an interesting new candidate for studying the physics associated with the SS model and establish a high sensitivity to crystal orientation as a guide when studying related materials. | | | | | | Geoffroy Kremer, Aymen Mahmoudi, Meryem Bouaziz, Cléophanie Brochard-Richard, Lama Khalil, Debora Pierucci, François Bertran, Patrick Le Fèvre, Mathieu G. Silly, Julien Chaste, Fabrice Oehler, Marco Pala, Federico Bisti, and Abdelkarim Ouerghi Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074601 (2023) – Published 11 July 2023 | | | Kin Man Yu, Wei Zhu, Ying Wang, Yajie Li, Chaoping Liu, Guibin Chen, and Wladek Walukiewicz Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074602 (2023) – Published 13 July 2023 | | | Vladimir G. Dubrovskii and Egor D. Leshchenko Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074603 (2023) – Published 14 July 2023 | | | Serhiy Kondratenko, Oleksandr Datsenko, Andrian V. Kuchuk, Fernando M. de Oliveira, Danylo Babich, Peter M. Lytvyn, Morgan E. Ware, Volodymyr Lysenko, Shui-Qing Yu, Yuriy I. Mazur, and Gregory J. Salamo Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074604 (2023) – Published 14 July 2023 | | | Andrea Giunto, Louise E. Webb, Thomas Hagger, and Anna Fontcuberta i Morral Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074605 (2023) – Published 17 July 2023 | | | Wei-Fan Hsu, Simon Mellaerts, Claudio Bellani, Pia Homm, Noriyuki Uchida, Mariela Menghini, Michel Houssa, Jin Won Seo, and Jean-Pierre Locquet Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074606 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023 | | | Superconducting materials | Qian Xiao, Qizhi Li, Jinjin Liu, Yongkai Li, Wei Xia, Xiquan Zheng, Yanfeng Guo, Zhiwei Wang, and Yingying Peng Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074801 (2023) – Published 5 July 2023 | | | Hang Yan, Ze-Xian Deng, Jia-Qi Fan, Xue-Qing Yu, Xiao-Peng Hu, Can-Li Song, Xu-Cun Ma, and Qi-Kun Xue Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074802 (2023) – Published 6 July 2023 | | | John G. Wright, Huili Grace Xing, and Debdeep Jena Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074803 (2023) – Published 14 July 2023 | | | Jiajun Wang, Muyao Wang, Xiaohan Liu, Man Jiang, and Liangliang Liu Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074804 (2023) – Published 19 July 2023 | | | Dorota I. Walicka, Robin Lefèvre, Olivier Blacque, Sara A. López-Paz, Carl W. Rischau, Antonio Cervellino, Carlos A. Triana, and Fabian O. von Rohr Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074805 (2023) – Published 28 July 2023 | | | Other electronic materials | Meng Wu, Xiaochun Huang, Yihuan Li, Hao Luo, Jueli Shi, Kelvin H. L. Zhang, Tielong Deng, Ying Du, Hui-Qiong Wang, and Junyong Kang Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 075001 (2023) – Published 17 July 2023 | | | Victor Rosendal, Walber H. Brito, Milan Radovic, Alla Chikina, Mads Brandbyge, Nini Pryds, and Dirch H. Petersen Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 075002 (2023) – Published 20 July 2023 | | | Honghong Wang, Tae Beom Park, Soohyeon Shin, Jihyun Kim, Hanoh Lee, and Tuson Park Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 075003 (2023) – Published 21 July 2023 | | | Materials for energy harvesting, storage, and generation | Surajit Adhikari and Priya Johari Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 075401 (2023) – Published 5 July 2023 | | | Isabel C. Arango, Alberto Anadón, Silvestre Novoa, Van Tuong Pham, Won Young Choi, Junior Alegre, Laurent Badie, Andrey Chuvilin, Sébastien Petit-Watelot, Luis E. Hueso, Fèlix Casanova, and Juan-Carlos Rojas-Sánchez Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 075402 (2023) – Published 10 July 2023 | | | E. Alleno, A. Diack-Rasselio, M. S. Talla Noutack, and P. Jund Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 075403 (2023) – Published 21 July 2023 | | | Soft, molecular, and amorphous materials | Brenden W. Hamilton and Alejandro Strachan Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 075601 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023 | | | Editors' Suggestion Ameya Rao, Brian R. Carrick, Helen Yao, and Bradley D. Olsen Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 075602 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 | In this study, associative polymer hydrogels formed by well-defined artificial proteins are found to exhibit unexpected submolecular dynamics, including a suppression of segmental diffusion with junction density and self-similar diffusive behavior in gels of different strand lengths and numbers of stickers per chain. These properties are in contrast to conventional polymer gels, demonstrating the rich physics of transient bonds in physically associating systems on molecular-scale dynamics. | | | | | | Eirini Sarigiannidou, Pierre Gaffuri, Fabrice Wilhelm, Joseph Kioseoglou, Andrei Rogalev, Efstratios Nikidis, Estelle Appert, and Vincent Consonni Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 076001 (2023) – Published 17 July 2023 | | | Featured in Physics Joshua T. Paul, Janet Lu, Sohum Shah, Stephen R. Xie, and Richard G. Hennig Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 076002 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 | Researchers have demonstrated a way to sift a database of crystalline compounds for structures that can be separated into useful one-dimensional materials. | | | | | | Materials for Quantum Technologies | Clemens Todt, Sjoerd Telkamp, Filip Krizek, Christian Reichl, Mihai Gabureac, Rüdiger Schott, Erik Cheah, Peng Zeng, Thomas Weber, Arnold Müller, Christof Vockenhuber, Mohsen Bahrami Panah, and Werner Wegscheider Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 076201 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023 | | | | |
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