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Dingyu Xing

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GPUTB-2:An efficient E(3) network method for learning high-precision orthogonal Hamiltonian

Although equivariant neural networks have become a cornerstone for learning electronic Hamiltonians, the intrinsic non-orthogonality of linear combinations of atomic orbitals (LCAO) basis sets poses a fundamental challenge. The computational cost of Hamiltonian orthogonalization scales as O(N^3), which severely hinders electronic structure calculations for large-scale systems containing hundreds of thousands to millions of atoms. To address this issue, we develop GPUTB-2, a framework that learns implicitly orthogonality-preserving Hamiltonians by training directly on electronic band structures. Benefiting from an E(3)-equivariant network accelerated by Gaunt tensor product and SO(2) tensor product layers, GPUTB-2 achieves significantly higher accuracy than GPUTB across multiple benchmark systems. Moreover, GPUTB-2 accurately predicts large-scale electronic structures, including transport properties of temperature-perturbed SnSe and the band structures of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. By further integrating this framework with the linear-scaling quantum transport (LSQT) method, we investigate the electronic properties of million-atom amorphous graphene and uncover pressure-induced electronic structure transitions in more complex amorphous silicon. Together, these results establish GPUTB-2 as a high-accuracy and scalable approach for predicting orthogonal Hamiltonians.

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GPUTB: Efficient Machine Learning Tight-Binding Method for Large-Scale Electronic Properties Calculations

The high computational cost of ab-initio methods limits their application in predicting electronic properties at the device scale. Therefore, an efficient method is needed to map the atomic structure to the electronic structure quickly. Here, we develop GPUTB, a GPU-accelerated tight-binding (TB) machine learning framework. GPUTB employs atomic environment descriptors, enabling the model parameters to incorporate environmental dependence. This allows the model to transfer to different basis, xc-functionals, and allotropes easily. Combined with the linear scaling quantum transport method, we have calculated the electronic density of states for up to 100 million atoms in pristine graphene. Trained on finite-temperature structures, the model can be easily extended to millions of atom finite-temperature systems. Furthermore, GPUTB can also successfully describe h-BN/graphene heterojunction systems, demonstrating its capability to handle complex material with high precision. We accurately reproduce the relationship between carrier concentration and room temperature mobility in graphene to verify the framework's accuracy. Therefore, our GPUTB framework presents a delicate balance between computational accuracy and efficiency, providing a powerful computational tool for investing electronic properties for large systems with millions of atoms.

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Hot-Ham: an accurate and efficient E(3)-equivariant machine-learning electronic structures calculation framework

The combinations of machine learning with ab initio methods have attracted much attention for their potential to resolve the accuracy-efficiency dilemma and facilitate calculations for large-scale systems. Recently, equivariant message passing neural networks (MPNNs) that explicitly incorporate symmetry constraints have demonstrated promise for interatomic potential and density functional theory (DFT) Hamiltonian predictions. However, the high-order tensors used to represent node and edge information are coupled through the Clebsch-Gordan tensor product (CGTP), leading to steep increases in computational complexity and seriously hindering the performance of equivariant MPNNs. Here, we develop High-order Tensor machine-learning Hamiltonian (Hot-Ham), an E(3) equivariant MPNN framework that combines two advanced technologies local coordinate transformation and Gaunt tensor product (GTP) to efficiently model DFT Hamiltonians. These two innovations significantly reduce the complexity of tensor products from O(L^6) to O(L^3) or O(L^2 log^2 L) for the max tensor order L, and enhance the performance of MPNNs. Benchmarks on several public datasets demonstrate its state-of-the-art accuracy with relatively few parameters, and the applications to multilayer twisted moir\'e systems, heterostructures and allotropes showcase its generalization ability and high efficiency. Our Hot-Ham method provides a new perspective for developing efficient equivariant neural networks and would be a promising approach for investigating the electronic properties of large-scale materials systems.

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Unified Semiclassical Theory of Nonlinear Hall Effect:Bridging Ballistic and Diffusive Transport Regime

The nonlinear Hall effect has attracted considerable attention and undergone extensive investigation in recent years. However, theoretical studies addressing size-dependent effects remain largely unexplored. In this work, we establish a unified semiclassical framework based on the Boltzmann transport equation, incorporating generalized boundary conditions to bridge the ballistic and diffusive transport regimes. Our analysis reveals that the nonlinear Hall effect arises from the combined action of two distinct mechanisms: the Berry curvature dipole and the Fermi-surface integral of Berry curvature. Furthermore, we investigate the Hall effect in topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), elucidating that the size dependence originates from competition between the two transport mechanisms. By connecting the two distinct regimes, our theoretical framework provides a comprehensive understanding of the nonlinear Hall effect in finite-sized systems, offering both fundamental insights and a useful analytical tool for more size-dependent investigations.

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Ab Initio Theory of Phonon Magnetic Moment Induced by Electron-Phonon Coupling in Magnetic Materials

Circularly polarized phonons, characterized by nonzero angular momenta and magnetic moments, have attracted extensive attention. However, a long-standing critical issue in this field is the lack of an approach to accurately calculate phonon magnetic moments resulting from electron-phonon coupling (EPC) in realistic materials. Here, based on the linear response framework, we develop an ab initio theory for calculating EPC-induced magnetic properties of phonons, applicable to both insulating and metallic materials. Our method can precisely calculate phonon Zeeman splittings in magnetic metals with significant EPC, as demonstrated by the remarkable agreement with recent experimental observations of phonon Zeeman splitting in the ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2. In addition, the long-sought magnetic phonon spectra across the entire Brillouin zone are obtained, facilitating the study of magnetic phonon transport and topology. Specifically, by constructing an inertially decoupled lattice model, we propose candidate materials exhibiting intrinsic phonon Chern states with robust unidirectional edge phonon currents. Our work paves the way for investigating novel phonon phenomena in magnetic quantum materials.

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E(n)-Equivariant Cartesian Tensor Passing Potential

Machine learning potential (MLP) has been a popular topic in recent years for its potential to replace expensive first-principles calculations in some large systems. Meanwhile, message passing networks have gained significant attention due to their remarkable accuracy, and a wave of message passing networks based on Cartesian coordinates has emerged. However, the information of the node in these models is limited to scalars, vectors, and tensors. In this work, we proposed High-order Tensor Passing Potential (HotPP), an E(n) equivariant message passing neural network that extends the node embedding and message to an arbitrary order tensor. By performing some basic equivariant operations, high order tensors can be coupled very simply and thus the model can make direct predictions of high-order tensors such as dipole moments and polarizabilities without any modifications. Compared to high order tensor models based on spherical vectors, this network is simpler and can achieve comparable accuracy with much fewer parameters. The tests in several datasets demonstrate HotPP is a promising new approach that warrants further investigation.

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Nonreciprocal Ballistic Transport in Asymmetric Bands

Nonreciprocal transport in uniform systems has attracted great research interest recently and the existing theories mainly focus on the diffusive regime. In this study, we uncover a novel scenario for nonreciprocal charge transport in the ballistic regime enabled by asymmetric band structures of the system. The asymmetry of the bands induces unequal Coulomb potentials within the system as the bias voltage imposed by the electrodes inverts its sign. As a result, the bands undergo different energy shifts as the current flows in opposite directions, giving rise to the nonreciprocity. Utilizing the gauge-invariant nonlinear transport theory, we show that the nonreciprocal transport predominantly originates from the second-order conductance, which violates the Onsager reciprocal relation but fulfills a generalized reciprocal relation similar to that of unidirectional magnetoresistance. The ballistic nonreciprocal transport phenomena differ from the diffusive ones by considering the internal asymmetric Coulomb potential, a factor not accounted for in diffusive cases but undeniably crucial in ballistic scenarios. Our work opens a avenue for implementing nonreciprocal transport in the ballistic regime and provides an alternative perspective for further experimental explorations for nonreciprocal transport.

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Symmetry-driven anisotropic coupling effect in antiferromagnetic topological insulator: Mechanism for high-Chern-number quantum anomalous Hall state

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulators (TIs), which host magnetically gapped Dirac-cone surface states and exhibit many exotic physical phenomena, have attracted great attention. Here, we find that the coupled surface states can be intertwined to give birth to a set of $2n$ unique new Dirac cones, dubbed intertwined Dirac cones, through the anisotropic coupling enforced by crystalline $n$-fold ($n=2, 3, 4, 6$) rotation symmetry $C_{nz}$ in the presence of a $PT$-symmetry breaking potential, for example, an electric field. Interestingly, we also find that the warping effect further drives the intertwined Dirac-cone state into a quantum anomalous Hall phase with a high Chern number ($C=n$). Then, based on first-principles calculations, we have explicitly demonstrated six intertwined Dirac cones and a Chern insulating phase with a high Chern number ($C=3$) in MnBi$_2$Te$_4$$/$(Bi$_2$Te$_3$)$_{\mathrm{m}}/$MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ heterostructures, as well as the $C=2$ and $C=4$ phases in HgS and $\alpha$-Ag$_2$Te films, respectively. This work discovers the intertwined Dirac-cone state in AFM TI thin films, which reveals a mechanism for designing the quantum anomalous Hall state with a high Chern number and also paves a way for studying highly tunable high-Chen-number flat bands of twistronics.

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Three-Dirac-fermion approach to unexpected universal gapless surface states of van der Waals magnetic topological insulators

Layered van der Waals (vdW) topological materials, especially the recently discovered MnBi$_2$Te$_4$-family magnetic topological insulators (TIs), have aroused great attention. However, there has been a serious debate about whether the surface states are gapped or gapless for antiferromagnetic (AFM) TI MnBi$_2$Te$_4$, which is crucial to the prospect of various magnetic topological phenomena. Here, a minimal three-Dirac-fermion approach is developed to generally describe topological surface states of nonmagnetic/magnetic vdW TIs under the modulation of the interlayer vdW gap. In particular, this approach is applied to address the controversial issues concerning the surface states of vdW AFM TIs. Remarkably, topologically protected gapless Dirac-cone surface states are found to arise due to a small expansion of the interlayer vdW gap on the surface, when the Chern number equals zero for the surface ferromagnetic layer; while the surface states remain gapped in all other cases. These results are further confirmed by our first-principles calculations on AFM TI MnBi$_2$Te$_4$. The theorectically discovered gapless Dirac-cone states provide a unique mechanism for understanding the puzzle of the experimentally observed gapless surface states in MnBi$_2$Te$_4$. This work also provides a promising way for experiments to realize the intrinsic magnetic quantum anomalous Hall effect in MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ films with a large energy gap.

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Axionic surface wave in dynamical axion insulators

The electromagnetic response of three-dimensional topological insulators can be described by an effective axion action with a quantized axion field. Once both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken, for example, in antiferromagnetic topological insulators, the axion field becomes dynamical along with magnetic fluctuations. The dynamical axion field, when coupled to electromagnetic fields, can lead to rich physical phenomena. Here, based on the modified Maxwell's equations, we reveal the existence of an exotic type of polariton excitation, termed a surface axion polariton, which propagates in the interface between a dynamical axion insulator and a dielectric. When doping the dynamical axion insulator to be metallic, the coexistence of axion-photon coupling and plasmon-photon coupling will further generate a mixed surface axion plasmon polariton. We also propose a Kretschmann-Raether configuration to experimentally detect the surface axion polariton. Our result provides an alternative way to study the axion electrodynamics in condensed matter physics.

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Nonlinear level attraction of cavity axion polariton in antiferromagnetic topological insulator

Strong coupling between cavity photons and various excitations in condensed matters boosts the field of light-matter interaction and generates several exciting sub-fields, such as cavity optomechanics and cavity magnon polariton. Axion quasiparticles, emerging in topological insulators, were predicted to strongly couple with the light and generate the so-called axion polariton. Here, we demonstrate that there arises a gapless level attraction in cavity axion polariton of antiferromagnetic topological insulators, which originates from a nonlinear interaction between axion and the odd-order resonance of cavity. Such a novel level attraction is essentially different from conventional level attractions with the mechanism of either a linear coupling or a dissipation-mediated interaction, and also different from the level repulsion induced by the strong coupling in common polaritons. Our results reveal a new mechanism of level attractions, and open up new roads for exploring the axion polariton with cavity technologies. They have potential applications for quantum information and dark matter research.

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Partially Diffusive Helium-Silica Compound in the Deep Interiors of Giant Planets

Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, and together with silica, they are major components of giant planets. Exploring the reactivity and state of helium and silica under high pressure is of fundamental importance for developing and understanding of the evolution and internal structure of giant planets. Here, using first-principles calculations and crystal structure predictions, we identify four stable phases of a helium-silica compound with seven/eight-coordinated silicon atoms at pressure range of 600-4000 GPa, corresponding to the interior condition of the outer planets in the solar system. The density of HeSiO2 agrees with current structure models of the planets. This helium-silica compound exhibits a superionic-like helium diffusive state at the high pressure and high temperature conditions along the isentropes of Saturn, a metallic fluid state in Jupiter, and a solid state in the deep interiors of Uranus and Neptune. The reaction of helium and silica may lead to the erosion of the rocky core of giant planets and form a diluted core region. These results highlight the reactivity of helium under high pressure to form new compounds, and also provides evidence to help build more sophisticated interior models of giant planets.

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Superionic silica-water and silica-hydrogen compounds under high pressure

Silica, water and hydrogen are known to be the major components of celestial bodies, and have significant influence on the formation and evolution of giant planets, such as Uranus and Neptune. Thus, it is of fundamental importance to investigate their states and possible reactions under the planetary conditions. Here, using advanced crystal structure searches and first-principles calculations in the Si-O-H system, we find that a silica-water compound (SiO2)2(H2O) and a silica-hydrogen compound SiO2H2 can exist under high pressures above 450 and 650 GPa, respectively. Further simulations reveal that, at high pressure and high temperature conditions corresponding to the interiors of Uranus and Neptune, these compounds exhibit superionic behavior, in which protons diffuse freely like liquid while the silicon and oxygen framework is fixed as solid. Therefore, these superionic silica-water and silica-hydrogen compounds could be regarded as important components of the deep mantle or core of giants, which also provides an alternative origin for their anomalous magnetic fields. These unexpected physical and chemical properties of the most common natural materials at high pressure offer key clues to understand some abstruse issues including demixing and erosion of the core in giant planets, and shed light on building reliable models for solar giants and exoplanets.

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Tunable dynamical magnetoelectric effect in antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ films

More than forty years ago, axion was postulated as an elementary particle with a low mass and weak interaction in particle physics to solve the strong $\mathcal{CP}$ (charge conjugation and parity) puzzle. Axions are also considered as a possible component of dark matter of the universe. However, the existence of axions in nature has not been confirmed. Interestingly, axions arise as pseudoscalar fields derived from the Chern-Simons theory in condensed matter physics. In antiferromagnetic insulators, the axion field can become dynamical induced by spin-wave excitations and exhibits rich exotic phenomena, such as, the chiral magnetic effect, axionic polariton and so on. However, the study of the dynamical axion field is rare due to the lack of real materials. Recently, MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ was discovered to be an antiferromagnetic topological insulator with a quantized axion field protected by the inversion symmetry $\mathcal{P}$ and the magnetic-crystalline symmetry $\mathcal{S}$. Here, we studied MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ films in which both the $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{S}$ symmetries are spontaneously broken and found that the dynamical axion field and largely tunable dynamical magnetoelectric effects can be realized through tuning the thickness of MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ films, the temperature and the element substitution. Our results open a broad avenue to study axion dynamics in antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ and related materials, and also is hopeful to promote the research of dark matter.

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Dynamical axion state with hidden pseudospin Chern numbers in MnBi$_{2}$Te$_{4}$-based heterostructures

Axion is a hypothetical elementary particle which was initially postulated to solve the charge conjugation-parity problem in particle physics. Interestingly, the axion state has emerged in effective theory of topological insulators and has attracted extensive attention in condensed matter physics. Time-reversal or inversion symmetry constrains the axion field $θ$ to be quantized. When both the time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken by, say, an antiferromagnetic order, the axion field $θ$ could become unquantized and dynamical along with magnetic fluctuations, which is termed the dynamical axion field. Here, we reveal that a wide class of topological-insulator-based dynamical axion states could be distinguished from the normal-insulator-based ones by a hidden quantity derived from the pseudospin Chern number. Motivated by recent research on MnBi$_{2}$Te$_{4}$-family materials, we further show that such topological-insulator-based dynamical axion states can be hopefully achieved in MnBi$_{2}$Te$_{4}$-based heterostructures, which should greatly facilitate the study of axion electrodynamics in condensed matter physics.

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Superconducting single-layer T-graphene and novel synthesis routes

Single-layer superconductors are ideal materials for fabricating superconducting nano devices. However, up to date, very few single-layer elemental superconductors have been predicted and especially no one has been successfully synthesized yet. Here, using crystal structure search techniques and ab initio calculations, we predict that a single-layer planar carbon sheet with 4- and 8-membered rings called T-graphene is a new intrinsic elemental superconductor with superconducting critical temperature (Tc) up to around 20.8 K. More importantly, we propose a synthesis route to obtain such a single-layer T-graphene, that is, a T-graphene potassium intercalation compound (C4K with P4/mmm symmetry) is firstly synthesized at high pressure (>11.5GPa) and then quenched to ambient condition; and finally, the single-layer T-graphene can be either exfoliated using the electrochemical method from the bulk C4K, or peeled off from bulk T-graphite C4, where C4 can be obtained from C4K by evaporating the K atoms. Interestingly, we find that the calculated Tc of C4K is about 30.4K at 0GPa, which sets a new record for layered carbon-based superconductors. The present findings add a new class of carbon based superconductors. In particular, once the single-layer T-graphene is synthesized, it can pave the way for fabricating superconducting devices together with other 2D materials using the layer-by-layer growth techniques.

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Topological axion states in magnetic insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ with the quantized magnetoelectric effect

Topological states of quantum matter have attracted great attention in condensed matter physics and materials science. The study of time-reversal-invariant (TRI) topological states in quantum materials has made tremendous progress in both theories and experiments. As a great success, thousands of TRI topological materials are predicted through sweeping search. Richer exotic phenomena are expected to appear in magnetic topological materials because of varied magnetic configurations, but this study falls much behind due to the complex magnetic structures and transitions. Here, we predict the tetradymite-type compound MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ and its related materials host interesting magnetic topological states. The magnetic ground state of MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ is an antiferromagnetic phase which leads to an antiferromagetic topological insulator state with a large topologically non-trivial energy gap ($\sim$0.2~eV). It is the parent state for the axion state, which has gapped bulk and surface states, and quantized topological magnetoelectric effect. The ferromagnetic phase of MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ leads to an ideal minimal type-II Weyl semimetal with two Weyl points accompanied by one hole-type and one electron-type Fermi pocket at the Fermi level, which has never been discovered elsewhere. We further present a simple and unified continuum model to capture the salient topological features of this kind of materials.

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A novel superhard tungsten nitride predicted by machine-learning accelerated crystal structure searching

Transition metal nitrides have been suggested to have both high hardness and good thermal stability with large potential application value, but so far stable superhard transition metal nitrides have not been synthesized. Here, with our newly developed machine-learning accelerated crystal structure searching method, we designed a superhard tungsten nitride, h-WN6, which can be synthesized at pressure around 65 GPa and quenchable to ambient pressure. This h-WN6 is constructed with single-bonded N6 rings and presents ionic-like features, which can be formulated as W2.4+N62.4-. It has a band gap of 1.6 eV at 0 GPa and exhibits an abnormal gap broadening behavior under pressure. Excitingly, this h-WN6 is found to be the hardest among transition metal nitrides known so far (Vickers hardness around 57 GPa) and also has a very high melting temperature (around 1900 K). These predictions support the designing rules and may stimulate future experiments to synthesize superhard material.

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