Volume 8, Issue 6

June 2024

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

${La}_{4} {Co}_{4} X$ $(X = Pb, Bi, Sb)$ : A demonstration of antagonistic pairs as a route to quasi-low-dimensional ternary compounds

Tyler J. Slade, Nao Furukawa, Matthew Dygert, Siham Mohamed, Atreyee Das, Weiyi Xia, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Sergey L. Bud'ko, and Paul C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064401 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Low or quasi reduced-dimensional crystal structures are associated with enhanced electronic correlations and emergent quantum behavior. Despite wide interest, identification of new material examples remains restricted by the lack of chemical rules for predicting the structure of extended solids. The authors present the antagonistic pairs approach to discover intermetallic compounds with reduced dimensional structural motifs. By using a pair of strongly immiscible atoms (an antagonistic pair) with a mutually compatible third element, they show that ternary compounds can be formed in which the compatible third element separates the immiscible elements into distinct crystallographic substructures. Quasi-low dimensional structural units, such as sheets, chains, or clusters are the consequence of the immiscible atoms trying to avoid close contact in the solid state. As an example, the authors outline the discovery of La $_{4}$ Co $_{4}$ $X$ ( $X$ = Pb, Bi, Sb), a family of intermetallic compounds in which the La separates the highly immiscible Co-Pb or Co-Bi atoms into a quasi-layered structure. They anticipate that their approach is a generalizable design principle for discovering new materials and new structure types containing low-dimensional substructures.

LETTERS

Structural and mechanical properties

LETTER

Structural origin of the anisotropic local mechanical response of amorphous silicon

Zhao Fan

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, L060601 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Topological and Dirac materials

LETTER

Heterostructural alloy phase diagram for ( ${Cd}_{1 - x} {Zn}_{x})_{3} {As}_{2}$

Chase Brooks and Stephan Lany

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, L061201 (2024) - Published 18 June, 2024

ARTICLES

Crystal growth, crystallization, and kinetics

Role of hypercooling limit in supercooling behavior and glass formation

Lei Wang, Yong Chan Cho, Yun-Hee Lee, Sangho Jeon, and Geun Woo Lee

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 063401 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Influence of ionization and cumulative effects on laser-induced crystallization in multilayer dielectrics

Ruben Ricca, Victor Boureau, and Yves Bellouard

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 063402 (2024) - Published 12 June, 2024

Textural properties of dense granular pastes produced by kneading

Mathilde Auxois, Marine Minière, Chloé Bertrand-Drira, Fabien Salvatori, Jan Verstraete, Sébastien Manneville, and Thibaut Divoux

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 063403 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Structural and mechanical properties

Spin transport and thermoelectric properties in chiral selenium crystals

Luz Ramírez-Montes, William López-Pérez, A. González-García, and Rafael González-Hernández

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 063601 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

Effect of the atomic structure of complexions on the active disconnection mode during shear-coupled grain boundary motion

Swetha Pemma, Rebecca Janisch, Gerhard Dehm, and Tobias Brink

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 063602 (2024) - Published 10 June, 2024

Androgynous ${10 \bar{1} 2}$ twin in zinc

Sébastien Merkel, Nadège Hilairet, Yanbin Wang, Jérémy Guignard, and Carlos N. Tomé

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 063603 (2024) - Published 10 June, 2024

Interplay between dislocation type and local structure in dislocation-twin boundary reactions in Cu

Khanh Dang, Avanish Mishra, Sumit Suresh, Nithin Mathew, Edward M. Kober, and Saryu Fensin

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 063604 (2024) - Published 20 June, 2024

Ab initio investigation of the martensitic phase transitions in ternary high temperature shape memory alloys ${Pd}_{x} {Ni}_{0.5 - x} {Ti}_{0.5}$

Zhigang Wu, Hessam Malmir, Othmane Benafan, Santosh KC, and John W. Lawson

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 063605 (2024) - Published 20 June, 2024

Stable nanofacets in [111] tilt grain boundaries of face-centered cubic metals

Tobias Brink, Lena Langenohl, Swetha Pemma, Christian H. Liebscher, and Gerhard Dehm

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 063606 (2024) - Published 21 June, 2024

Two-dimensional materials

Strong spin-lattice coupling and high-temperature magnetic ordering in monolayer chromium dichalcogenides

A. González-García, C. Bacaksiz, T. Frauenheim, and M. V. Milošević

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064001 (2024) - Published 13 June, 2024

Nature of order-disorder charge-density-wave phase transition in kagome metal ${RbV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Shichang Yao, Chongze Wang, Zhenzhen Feng, Bing Wang, Yu Jia, Zhenyu Zhang, and J. Cho

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064002 (2024) - Published 20 June, 2024

Theory of mechanical exfoliation of van der Waals bonded layered materials

Haoye Sun, Ozan Sahin, Ali Javey, Joel W. Ager, and D. C. Chrzan

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064003 (2024) - Published 20 June, 2024

Tuning the valley depolarization dynamics in selenium and vanadium alloyed monolayer $Mo S_{2}$

Dipak Maity, Bhuvan Upadhyay, Janmey Jay Panda, Krishna Rani Sahoo, Sreekant A., G. Rajalakshmi, Suman Kalyan Pal, and Tharangattu N. Narayanan

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064004 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Defect-induced anomalous thermal quenching of photoluminescence in the transition metal dichalcogenide ternary alloy $M o_{0.6} W_{0.4} S e_{2}$

Navya Biju, Prahalad Kanti Barman, Jibin N. Sunil, and Rajeev N. Kini

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064005 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

${La}_{4} {Co}_{4} X$ $(X = Pb, Bi, Sb)$ : A demonstration of antagonistic pairs as a route to quasi-low-dimensional ternary compounds

Tyler J. Slade, Nao Furukawa, Matthew Dygert, Siham Mohamed, Atreyee Das, Weiyi Xia, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Sergey L. Bud'ko, and Paul C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064401 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Ultrafast anisotropic polarization dynamics of electronic ferroelectric ${LuFe}_{2} O_{4}$

H. Yu, Y. Fukada, G. Nishida, K. Takubo, T. Ishikawa, S. Koshihara, N. Ikeda, and Y. Okimoto

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064402 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Fragile altermagnetism and orbital disorder in Mott insulator ${LaTiO}_{3}$

I. V. Maznichenko, A. Ernst, D. Maryenko, V. K. Dugaev, E. Ya. Sherman, P. Buczek, S. S. P. Parkin, and S. Ostanin

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064403 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

SP-STM study of the multi-Q phases in ${GdRu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

Jonas Spethmann, Nguyen Duy Khanh, Haruto Yoshimochi, Rina Takagi, Satoru Hayami, Yukitoshi Motome, Roland Wiesendanger, Shinichiro Seki, and Kirsten von Bergmann

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064404 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

Exploring the impact of Cr-doping on the crystallographic and magnetic structure of ${Mn}_{5} {Si}_{3}$ antiferromagnetic alloy

Sanat Kumar Adhikari, Riya Roy, Mohamad Numan, Ashok Das, Rosni Roy, Sambhu Charan Das, Jhuma Sannigrahi, Sabyasachi Pramanick, Kalyanashis De, Qiang Zhang, Sergiu Levcenco, Edmund Welter, Sudipta Bandyopadhyay, Rajib Mondal, and Souvik Chatterjee

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064405 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Second harmonic imaging of antiferromagnetic domains and confirmation of absence of ferroaxial twins in ${MnTiO}_{3}$

Daiki Sekine, Tatsuki Sato, Yusuke Tokunaga, Taka-hisa Arima, and Masakazu Matsubara

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064406 (2024) - Published 14 June, 2024

Field-free manipulation of exchange bias in perpendicularly magnetized Pt/Co/IrMn structures by spin-orbit torque

Jijun Yun, Qi Zhang, Haiming Xu, Xi Guo, Li Xi, and Kexin Jin

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064407 (2024) - Published 17 June, 2024

Semiconducting materials

Enhanced mobility of ternary InGaAs quantum wells through digital alloying

Jason T. Dong, Yilmaz Gul, Aaron N. Engel, Teun A. J. van Schijndel, Connor P. Dempsey, Michael Pepper, and Christopher J. Palmstrøm

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064601 (2024) - Published 26 June, 2024

Superconducting materials

Charge ordering as the driving mechanism for superconductivity in rare-earth nickel oxides

Álvaro Adrián Carrasco Álvarez, Lucia Iglesias, Sébastien Petit, Wilfrid Prellier, Manuel Bibes, and Julien Varignon

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064801 (2024) - Published 4 June, 2024

Electronic structure of nickelate superconductor $NdNi O_{2} H_{x}$ ( $x = 0$ , 0.25, 0.5) under different strains

Hangbo Qi, Xuelei Sui, Xiangru Han, Bing Huang, Haiyan Xiao, and Liang Qiao

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064802 (2024) - Published 11 June, 2024

First-principles exploration of superconductivity in intercalated bilayer borophene phases

Božidar N. Šoškić, Jonas Bekaert, Cem Sevik, Željko Šljivančanin, and Milorad V. Milošević

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 064803 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Other electronic materials

Epitaxial superlattices as a framework for stabilizing different ${LaNiO}_{3}$ structures

F. Misják, R. A. Ortiz, D. Geiger, M. K. Kinyanjui, E. Schierle, K. Fürsich, G. Christiani, G. Logvenov, B. Keimer, U. Kaiser, and E. Benckiser

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 065001 (2024) - Published 10 June, 2024

Metamaterials, optical, photonic, and plasmonic materials

High-energy excitonic effects in single-layer graphene

Eri Widianto, Lucky Zaehir Maulana, Edi Suharyadi, Angelo Giglia, Konstantin Koshmak, Stefano Nannarone, Andrivo Rusydi, and Iman Santoso

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 065201 (2024) - Published 6 June, 2024

Materials for energy harvesting, storage, and generation

Computational investigation of the structural and electrolyte properties of the extended family of lithium (thio)boracite materials: ${Li}_{4} B_{7} O_{12} Cl$ and beyond

D. Cory Lynch, Yan Li, Pieremanuele Canepa, and N. A. W. Holzwarth

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 065401 (2024) - Published 3 June, 2024

Performance of $ZnF e_{2} O_{4}$ as a photoabsorber in solution-processed all-oxide planar photovoltaics

Parul Garg, Sanchari Bhattacharya, Arpita Paul, Sanjoy Datta, and Ashok Bera

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 065402 (2024) - Published 10 June, 2024

Thermal conductivity of ${Li}_{3} {PS}_{4}$ solid electrolytes with ab initio accuracy

Davide Tisi, Federico Grasselli, Lorenzo Gigli, and Michele Ceriotti

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 065403 (2024) - Published 12 June, 2024

Nanomaterials

Impurity induced confinement effects in size-separated Mn-doped ${CsPbCl}_{3}$ nanocrystals

Aaron A. Forde, Salim A. Thomas, Reed J. Petersen, Dmitri S. Kilin, and Erik K. Hobbie

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 066001 (2024) - Published 7 June, 2024

Materials for Quantum Technologies

High quality Ge layers for Ge/SiGe quantum well heterostructures using chemical vapor deposition

Arianna Nigro, Eric Jutzi, Nicolas Forrer, Andrea Hofmann, Gerard Gadea, and Ilaria Zardo

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 066201 (2024) - Published 5 June, 2024

ERRATA

Erratum: Neutron scattering and muon-spin spectroscopy studies of the magnetic triangular-lattice compounds $A_{2} {La}_{2} Ni W_{2} O_{12} (A = Sr, Ba)$ [Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074403 (2023)]

B. C. Yu, J. Y. Yang, D. J. Gawryluk, Y. Xu, Q. F. Zhan, T. Shiroka, and T. Shang

Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 069901 (2024) - Published 25 June, 2024