Fractional-excitation-phonon coupling in α-RuCl3 is observed, validating phonons as a sensitive probe of hidden fractional and non-local excitations, experimentally confirming the theoretically predicted coupling and providing the key information
Researchers discovered that Li infiltration in solid oxide electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries is associated with local electronic structure at grain boundaries (GBs) rather than exclusively at Li-electrolyte interfaces as in Li-ion batt
Demonstrated that structural order parameters and local concentration-driven phase transitions can be described on atomic level from scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) data.
Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are used to find the structure and electronic band gap of 2D GeSe, determining that the gap and its nature are highly tunable by strain.