Browsing by Author "Setty, Chandan"

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    Observation of flat bands and Dirac cones in a pyrochlore lattice superconductor
    (Springer Nature, 2024) Huang, Jianwei; Setty, Chandan; Deng, Liangzi; You, Jing-Yang; Liu, Hongxiong; Shao, Sen; Oh, Ji Seop; Guo, Yucheng; Zhang, Yichen; Yue, Ziqin; Yin, Jia-Xin; Hashimoto, Makoto; Lu, Donghui; Gorovikov, Sergey; Dai, Pengcheng; Denlinger, Jonathan D.; Allen, J. W.; Hasan, M. Zahid; Feng, Yuan-Ping; Birgeneau, Robert J.; Shi, Youguo; Chu, Ching-Wu; Chang, Guoqing; Si, Qimiao; Yi, Ming; Rice Center for Quantum Materials
    Emergent phases often appear when the electronic kinetic energy is comparable to the Coulomb interactions. One approach to seek material systems as hosts of such emergent phases is to realize localization of electronic wavefunctions due to the geometric frustration inherent in the crystal structure, resulting in flat electronic bands. Recently, such efforts have found a wide range of exotic phases in the two-dimensional kagome lattice, including magnetic order, time-reversal symmetry breaking charge order, nematicity, and superconductivity. However, the interlayer coupling of the kagome layers disrupts the destructive interference needed to completely quench the kinetic energy. Here we demonstrate that an interwoven kagome network—a pyrochlore lattice—can host a three dimensional (3D) localization of electron wavefunctions. Meanwhile, the nonsymmorphic symmetry of the pyrochlore lattice guarantees all band crossings at the Brillouin zone X point to be 3D gapless Dirac points, which was predicted theoretically but never yet observed experimentally. Through a combination of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, fundamental lattice model and density functional theory calculations, we investigate the novel electronic structure of a Laves phase superconductor with a pyrochlore sublattice, CeRu2. We observe evidence of flat bands originating from the Ce 4f orbitals as well as flat bands from the 3D destructive interference of the Ru 4d orbitals. We further observe the nonsymmorphic symmetry-protected 3D gapless Dirac cone at the X point. Our work establishes the pyrochlore structure as a promising lattice platform to realize and tune novel emergent phases intertwining topology and many-body interactions.
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    Reversible non-volatile electronic switching in a near-room-temperature van der Waals ferromagnet
    (Springer Nature, 2024) Wu, Han; Chen, Lei; Malinowski, Paul; Jang, Bo Gyu; Deng, Qinwen; Scott, Kirsty; Huang, Jianwei; Ruff, Jacob P. C.; He, Yu; Chen, Xiang; Hu, Chaowei; Yue, Ziqin; Oh, Ji Seop; Teng, Xiaokun; Guo, Yucheng; Klemm, Mason; Shi, Chuqiao; Shi, Yue; Setty, Chandan; Werner, Tyler; Hashimoto, Makoto; Lu, Donghui; Yilmaz, Turgut; Vescovo, Elio; Mo, Sung-Kwan; Fedorov, Alexei; Denlinger, Jonathan D.; Xie, Yaofeng; Gao, Bin; Kono, Junichiro; Dai, Pengcheng; Han, Yimo; Xu, Xiaodong; Birgeneau, Robert J.; Zhu, Jian-Xin; da Silva Neto, Eduardo H.; Wu, Liang; Chu, Jiun-Haw; Si, Qimiao; Yi, Ming; Rice Center for Quantum Materials
    Non-volatile phase-change memory devices utilize local heating to toggle between crystalline and amorphous states with distinct electrical properties. Expanding on this kind of switching to two topologically distinct phases requires controlled non-volatile switching between two crystalline phases with distinct symmetries. Here, we report the observation of reversible and non-volatile switching between two stable and closely related crystal structures, with remarkably distinct electronic structures, in the near-room-temperature van der Waals ferromagnet Fe5−δGeTe2. We show that the switching is enabled by the ordering and disordering of Fe site vacancies that results in distinct crystalline symmetries of the two phases, which can be controlled by a thermal annealing and quenching method. The two phases are distinguished by the presence of topological nodal lines due to the preserved global inversion symmetry in the site-disordered phase, flat bands resulting from quantum destructive interference on a bipartite lattice, and broken inversion symmetry in the site-ordered phase.
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    Symmetry constraints and spectral crossing in a Mott insulator with Green's function zeros
    (American Physical Society, 2024) Setty, Chandan; Sur, Shouvik; Chen, Lei; Xie, Fang; Hu, Haoyu; Paschen, Silke; Cano, Jennifer; Si, Qimiao; Rice Center for Quantum Materials
    Lattice symmetries are central to the characterization of electronic topology. Recently, it was shown that Green's function eigenvectors form a representation of the space group. This formulation has allowed the identification of gapless topological states even when quasiparticles are absent. Here we demonstrate the profundity of the framework in the extreme case, when interactions lead to a Mott insulator, through a solvable model with long-range interactions. We find that both Mott poles and zeros are subject to the symmetry constraints, and relate the symmetry-enforced spectral crossings to degeneracies of the original noninteracting eigenstates. Our results lead to new understandings of topological quantum materials and highlight the utility of interacting Green's functions toward their symmetry-based design.