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Conduction band structure and ultrafast dynamics of ferroelectric α−GeTe(111)

American Physical Society (APS)2025

Altermagnets as a new class of functional materials

Altermagnets are characterized by non-relativistic alternating spin splitting in the band structure and collinear compensated magnetic moments in real space. They combine the advantages of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic order, exhibiting time-reversal ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Duality and degeneracy lifting in two-dimensional electron liquids on SrTiO3(001)

Jan Hugo Dil, Fei Guo

Two-dimensional electron liquids (2DELs) have increasing technological relevance for ultrafast electronics and spintronics, yet significant gaps in their fundamental understanding are exemplified on the prototypical SrTiO3. We correlate the exact SrTiO3(00 ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Weyl metallic state induced by helical magnetic order

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Ivica Zivkovic, Jan Hugo Dil, Jian Rui Soh, Xupeng Yang

In the rapidly expanding field of topological materials there is growing interest in systems whose topological electronic band features can be induced or controlled by magnetism. Magnetic Weyl semimetals, which contain linear band crossings near the Fermi ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Nanoscale imaging and control of altermagnetism in MnTe

Jan Hugo Dil

Nanoscale detection and control of the magnetic order underpins a spectrum of condensed-matter research and device functionalities involving magnetism. The key principle involved is the breaking of time-reversal symmetry, which in ferromagnets is generated ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2024

Magneto-optical response of the magnetic semiconductors EuCd2X2 (X =P, As, Sb)

Ivica Zivkovic, Jan Hugo Dil, Michele Puppin, Fei Guo

In this study, we identify EuCd2X2 (for X = P, As, Sb) as a series of magnetic semiconductors. We examine how the band gap of the series responds to X changing from phosphorus (P), to arsenic (As), and finally antimony (Sb). We characterize the samples usi ...

2024

Interplay between disorder and electronic correlations in compositionally complex alloys

László Forró, Luka Ciric, Xavier François Mettan, Jan Hugo Dil, Edoardo Martino, Davor Tolj, Trpimir Ivsic

Owing to their exceptional mechanical, electronic, and phononic transport properties, compositionally complex alloys, including high-entropy alloys, represent an important class of materials. However, the interplay between chemical disorder and electronic ...

Nature Research2024

Altermagnetic lifting of Kramers spin degeneracy

Jan Hugo Dil

Lifted Kramers spin degeneracy (LKSD) has been among the central topics of condensed-matter physics since the dawn of the band theory of solids. It underpins established practical applications as well as current frontier research, ranging from magnetic-mem ...

2024

Real-and reciprocal space characterization of the three-dimensional charge density wave in quasi-one-dimensional CuTe

Arnaud Magrez, Jan Hugo Dil, Michele Puppin, Fei Guo

Low-dimensional materials are susceptible to electronic instabilities such as charge density waves (CDWs), originating from a divergence in the Lindhard electron response function, combined with a finite electron-phonon coupling strength. In this paper, we ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Weyl spin-momentum locking in a chiral topological semimetal

Jan Hugo Dil

Spin-orbit coupling in noncentrosymmetric crystals leads to spin-momentum locking - a directional relationship between an electron's spin angular momentum and its linear momentum. Isotropic orthogonal Rashba spin-momentum locking has been studied for decad ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2024

High-resolution MHz time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy based on a tunable vacuum ultraviolet source

Marco Grioni, Thomas La Grange, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Fabrizio Carbone, Jan Hugo Dil, Michele Puppin, Fei Guo

The time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (trARPES) allows for direct mapping of the electronic band structure and its dynamic response on femtosecond timescales. Here, we present a new ARPES system, powered by a new fiber-based femtosecond l ...

Aip Publishing2024

Efficient magnetic switching in a correlated spin glass

Jan Hugo Dil

The interplay between spin-orbit interaction and magnetic order is one of the most active research fields in condensed matter physics and drives the search for materials with novel, and tunable, magnetic and spin properties. Here we report on a variety of ...

Nature Research2023

EuCd2As2: A Magnetic Semiconductor

Ivica Zivkovic, Jan Hugo Dil, Michele Puppin, Jian Rui Soh, Fei Guo

EuCd2As2 is now widely accepted as a topological semimetal in which a Weyl phase is induced by an external magnetic field. We challenge this view through firm experimental evidence using a combination of electronic transport, optical spectroscopy, and exci ...

2023

Persistence of Structural Distortion and Bulk Band Rashba Splitting in SnTe above Its Ferroelectric Critical Temperature

Jan Hugo Dil

The ferroelectric semiconductor alpha-SnTe has been regarded as a topological crystalline insulator, and the dispersion of its surface states has been intensively measured with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) over the past decade. However ...

2023

Field-induced ultrafast modulation of Rashba coupling at room temperature in ferroelectric alpha-GeTe(111)

Jan Hugo Dil

Rashba materials have appeared as an ideal playground for spin-to-charge conversion in prototype spintronics devices. Among them, alpha-GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelectric semiconductor for which a strong spin-orbit interaction gives rise to g ...

Nature Portfolio2022

A Real-Time Comparison of Four Particulate Matter Size Fractions in the Personal Breathing Zone of Paris Subway Workers: A Six-Week Prospective Study

Jan Hugo Dil

We developed a Bayesian spline model for real-time mass concentrations of particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5, PM1, and PM0.3) measured simultaneously in the personal breathing zone of Parisian subway workers. The measurements were performed by GRIMM, a gravim ...

MDPI2022

Disclosing the response of the surface electronic structure in SrTiO3 (001) to strain

Jan Hugo Dil

Combining angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations, we addressed the surface electronic structure of bent SrTiO 3 (STO) (001) wafers. Using a custom-made device, we observe that the low-dimensional states that em ...

2022

Observation of a singular Weyl point surrounded by charged nodal walls in PtGa

Oleg Yazyev, Jan Hugo Dil, Quansheng Wu, Shengnan Zhang

Constrained by the Nielsen-Ninomiya no-go theorem, in all so-far experimentally determined Weyl semimetals (WSMs) the Weyl points (WPs) always appear in pairs in the momentum space with no exception. As a consequence, Fermi arcs occur on surfaces which con ...

Nature Research2021

Triple-Point Fermions in Ferroelectric GeTe

Jan Hugo Dil, Mauro Fanciulli, Marco Caputo, Houke Chen

2021

Universal Structural Influence on the 2D Electron Gas at SrTiO3 Surfaces

Jan Hugo Dil

The 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) found at the surface of SrTiO3 and related interfaces has attracted significant attention as a promising basis for oxide electronics. In order to utilize its full potential, the response of this 2DEG to structural chan ...

2021