21–26 Jun 2026
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building
America/Toronto timezone
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Strain-tuned topological bands in a three-dimensional Kagome antiferromagnet

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20m
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3
Oral Competition (Undergraduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 1er cycle) Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)

Speaker

Maxime Laniel (University of Ottawa)

Description

Kagome materials have been the source of extensive recent studies for topological quantum matter with enhanced electronic correlation. Destructive interference of electronic hopping pathways in the geometrically frustrated Kagome lattice gives rise to signature topological bands near the Fermi level ($E_\mathrm{F}$), such as a doubly degenerate flat band, a Dirac cone, and van Hove singularities (vHSs). Here, we investigate the electronic and magnonic properties of B35-FeGe, an intriguing three-dimensional (3D) Kagome material that hosts charge density wave (CDW) and spin density wave (SDW) at low temperature. We demonstrate unique strain tunability of the vHSs, Dirac cone, the associated Berry curvatures and transport properties in the antiferromagnetic (AFM) B35-FeGe, which facilitates understanding of the highly correlated CDW. The uncovered strain tunability of topological features in 3D Kagome materials offers a rich platform for emerging topological electronics, spintronics and magnonics. Our work bodes well for significant experimental advancement in highly correlated states, magnetic interactions in intertwined quantum phases, and strain-driven topological phenomena.

The research was supported by Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program, NSERC Discovery Grant RGPIN-2024-06497, ARO Grant Number W911NF-25-1-0215 and Digital Research Alliance of Canada.

Keyword-1 Kagome lattice
Keyword-2 Strain-tunability
Keyword-3 Electronic correlation

Authors

Maxime Laniel (University of Ottawa) Hang Chi (University of Ottawa)

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