Publications by authors named "Zhenhao Gong"
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- Using circularly polarized light to manipulate quantum materials presents significant possibilities in physics and chemistry, especially in areas like asymmetric synthesis and spintronics.
- The study highlights the unexpected ability to control antiferromagnetic order in MnBiTe, an unusual material without chirality or magnetization.
- The findings suggest that optical control and a special form of light interaction, called antiferromagnetic circular dichroism, stem from a concept known as optical axion electrodynamics, which may enable new optical technologies in various anti-symmetric materials.
Negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) materials are functional and mechanical metamaterials that shrink (expand) longitudinally after being compressed (stretched) laterally. By using first-principles calculations, we found that Poisson's ratio can be tuned from near zero to negative by different stacking modes in van der Waals (vdW) graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (G/-BN) superlattice. We attribute the NPR effect to the interaction of orbitals between the interfacial layers.
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