Designing topological and correlated 2D magnetic states via superatomic lattice constructions of zirconium dichloride
作者机构:Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational NanoscienceNational Center for Nanoscience and TechnologyBeijing 100190China Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of PhysicsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100190China State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of PhysicsTsinghua UniversityBeijing 100084China
出 版 物:《Nano Research》 (纳米研究(英文版))
年 卷 期:2023年第16卷第12期
页 面:13509-13515页
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学科分类:080801[工学-电机与电器] 0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程(可授工学、理学学位)] 080502[工学-材料学]
基 金:supported in part by the Key R&D of the Ministry of Science and Technology(No.2022YFA1204103)
主 题:topological state Chern insulator Dirac Mott insulator zirconium dichloride superatomic lattice kagome lattice
摘 要:Magnetic materials could realize the intriguing quantum anomalous Hall effect and metal-to-insulator transition when combined with band topology or electronic correlation,which have broad prospects in quantum information,spintronics,and ***,we propose the approach of designing novel two-dimensional(2D)magnetic states via d-orbital-based superatomic ***,we chose triangular zirconium dichloride disks as superatoms to construct the honeycomb superatomic *** first-principles calculations,we identified a series of 2D magnetic states with varying sizes of *** found the non-uniform stoichiometries and geometric effect of superatomic lattice give rise to spin-polarized charges arranged in different magnetic configurations,containing ferromagnetic coloring triangles,antiferromagnetic honeycomb,and ferromagnetic kagome ***,these magnetic states are endowed with nontrivial band topology or strong correlation,forming an ideal Chern insulator or antiferromagnetic Dirac Mott *** work not only reveals the potential of d-orbital-based superatoms for generating unusual magnetic configurations,but also supplies a new avenue for material engineering at the nanoscale.