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On-surface interchain coupling and skeletal rearrangement of indenofluorene p...
On-surface synthesis serves as a powerful approach to construct π-conjugated carbon nanostructures that are not accessible by conventional wet chemistry. Nevertheless, this... -
Photochemical anisotropy and direction-dependent optical absorption propertie...
Photochemical reactions on semiconductors are anisotropic, since they occur with different rates on surfaces of different orientation. Understanding the origin of this... -
Edge disorder in bottom-up zigzag graphene nanoribbons: implications for magn...
We unveil the nature of the structural disorder in bottom-up zigzag graphene nanoribbons along with its effect on the magnetism and electronic transport on the basis of scanning... -
Linear and quadratic magnetoresistance in the semimetal SiP2
Multiple mechanisms for extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) found in many topologically nontrivial/trivial semimetals have been theoretically proposed, but experimentally it... -
Dramatic acceleration of the Hopf cyclization on gold(111): from enediynes to...
Hopf et al. first reported the high-temperature 6π-electrocyclization of cis-hexa-1,3-diene-5-yne to benzene in 1969. Subsequent studies using this cyclization have been limited... -
Preferential graphitic-nitrogen formation in pyridine-extended graphene nanor...
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), nanometer-wide strips of graphene, have garnered significant attention due to their tunable electronic and magnetic properties arising from quantum... -
Hubbard-corrected density functional perturbation theory with ultrasoft pseud...
We present in full detail a newly developed formalism enabling density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) calculations from a DFT+U ground state. The implementation includes... -
Importance of intersite Hubbard interactions in β-MnO2: A first-principles DF...
We present a first-principles investigation of the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of pyrolusite (β-MnO2) using conventional and extended Hubbard-corrected... -
Interplay between polarization, strain and defect-pairs in Fe-doped SrMnO3-δ
Defect chemistry, strain, and structural, magnetic and electronic degrees of freedom constitute a rich space for the design of functional properties in transition metal oxides.... -
On-surface cyclization of vinyl groups on poly-para-phenylene involving an un...
On-surface synthesis relies on carefully designed molecular precursors that are thermally activated to afford desired, covalently coupled architectures. In a recent publication,... -
Ferroelectricity promoted by cation/anion divacancies in SrMnO3
We investigate the effect of polar Sr-O vacancy pairs on the electric polarization of SrMnO3 (SMO) thin films using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. This is... -
Double-hybrid DFT functionals for the condensed phase: Gaussian and plane wav...
Intermolecular interactions play an important role for the understanding of catalysis, biochemistry and pharmacy. Double-hybrid density functionals (DHDFs) combine the proper... -
Electronic structure of pristine and Ni-substituted LaFeO₃ from near edge x-r...
We present a joint theoretical and experimental study of the oxygen K-edge spectra for LaFeO₃ and homovalent Ni-substituted LaFeO₃ (LaFe₀.₇₅Ni₀.₂₅O₃), using first-principles... -
Observation of fractional edge excitations in nanographene spin chains
Fractionalization is a phenomenon in which strong interactions in a quantum system drive the emergence of excitations with quantum numbers that are absent in the building... -
Metallic carbon nanotube quantum dots with broken symmetries as a platform fo...
In this record we provide data to support our recent findings related to carbon nanotube based quantum dots for tunable terahertz detection. Generating and detecting radiation... -
2‐D materials for ultrascaled field-effect transistors: one hundred candidate...
Due to their remarkable properties, single-layer 2-D materials appear as excellent candidates to extend Moore's scaling law beyond the currently manufactured silicon FinFETs.... -
Radial spin texture of the Weyl fermions in chiral tellurium
In the present record we provide the theoretical calculations used in the article: G. Gatti et al., Radial Spin Texture of the Weyl Fermions in Chiral Tellurium, Phys. Rev.... -
Magnetic exchange interactions in monolayer CrI₃ from many-body wavefunction ...
The marked interplay between the crystalline, electronic, and magnetic structure of atomically thin magnets has been regarded as the key feature for designing next-generation... -
Solids that are also liquids: elastic tensors of superionic materials
This work presents an application of the strain-fluctuation method, exploiting the fluctuations of the strain from extensive first-principles molecular dynamics simulations in... -
Quantum electronic transport across 'bite' defects in graphene nanoribbons
On-surface synthesis has recently emerged as an effective route towards the atomically precise fabrication of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) of controlled topologies and widths....
