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Berry curvature memory through electrically driven stacking transitions

Nature physics, 2020-10, Vol.16 (10), p.1028-1034 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Berry curvature memory through electrically driven stacking transitions
Author: Xiao, Jun ; Wang, Ying ; Wang, Hua ; Pemmaraju, C. D. ; Wang, Siqi ; Muscher, Philipp ; Sie, Edbert J. ; Nyby, Clara M. ; Devereaux, Thomas P. ; Qian, Xiaofeng ; Zhang, Xiang ; Lindenberg, Aaron M.
Subjects: Asymmetry ; Crystals ; Curvature ; Dipoles ; Electric fields ; electronic properties and materials ; Elementary excitations ; Energy costs ; Engineering ; Ferroelectricity ; Free energy ; Graphite ; Interlayers ; Laboratories ; MATERIALS SCIENCE ; Memory devices ; Phase transitions ; phase transitions and critical phenomena ; Physics ; Stacking ; structural properties ; Topology ; two-dimensional materials
Is Part Of: Nature physics, 2020-10, Vol.16 (10), p.1028-1034
Description: In two-dimensional layered quantum materials, the stacking order of the layers determines both the crystalline symmetry and electronic properties such as the Berry curvature, topology and electron correlation1–4. Electrical stimuli can influence quasiparticle interactions and the free-energy landscape5,6, making it possible to dynamically modify the stacking order and reveal hidden structures that host different quantum properties. Here, we demonstrate electrically driven stacking transitions that can be applied to design non-volatile memory based on Berry curvature in few-layer WTe2. The interplay of out-of-plane electric fields and electrostatic doping controls in-plane interlayer sliding and creates multiple polar and centrosymmetric stacking orders. In situ nonlinear Hall transport reveals that such stacking rearrangements result in a layer-parity-selective Berry curvature memory in momentum space, where the sign reversal of the Berry curvature and its dipole only occurs in odd-layer crystals. Our findings open an avenue towards exploring coupling between topology, electron correlations and ferroelectricity in hidden stacking orders and demonstrate a new low-energy-cost, electrically controlled topological memory in the atomically thin limit. A memory device is proposed that uses a dynamical modification of the stacking order of few-layer WTe2 to encode information. The change in stacking modifies both the Berry curvature and the Hall transport, allowing two states to be distinguished.
Publisher: London: Nature Publishing Group
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1745-2473
EISSN: 1745-2481
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-0947-0
Source: ProQuest Central

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Berry curvature memory through electrically driven stacking transitions

The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2020. ;ISSN: 1745-2473 ;EISSN: 1745-2481 ;DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-0947-0

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