Unraveling a novel ferroelectric GeSe phase and its transformation into a topological crystalline insulator under high pressure

Unraveling Crystalline Structure of High-Pressure Phase of Silicon Carbonate

Topological Crystalline Insulator in a New Bi Semiconducting Phase

Topological crystalline insulators are a type of topological insulators whose topological surface states are protected by a crystal symmetry, thus the surface gap can be tuned by applying strain or an electric field. In this paper we predict by means of ab initio calculations a new phase of Bi which is a topological crystalline insulator characterized by a mirror Chern number nM = -2, but not a...

Corrigendum: Observation of a topological crystalline insulator phase and topological phase transition in Pb1−xSnxTe

In Fig. 2a and d of this Article, a uniform background subtraction was applied to the ARPES low-energy electronic structure measurements. In Fig. 2d, this background subtraction unintentionally was only applied to the central part of the figure. This affected the noise in the background but not the meaningful signal data features discussed in the paper, and therefore does not affect any conclus...

Strain-Induced Ferroelectric Topological Insulator.

Ferroelectricity and band topology are two extensively studied yet distinct properties of insulators. Nonetheless, their coexistence has never been observed in a single material. Using first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that a noncentrosymmetric perovskite structure of CsPbI3 allows for the simultaneous presence of ferroelectric and topological orders with appropriate strain engineer...

Boron under Pressure: Phase Diagram and Novel High-pressure Phase

Boron has a unique chemistry, responsible for remarkable complexities even in the pure element. I review some of the history of the discovery of this element, and recent surprises found in boron under pressure. I discuss the recent discovery of a new high-pressure phase, γ-B28, consisting of icosahedral B12 clusters and B2 pairs in a NaCl-type arrangement: (B2)(B12), and displaying a significan...