Manipulation of matter at the nanoscale in functional nanostructures allows to harness nanoscale and even quantum phenomena, with applications in electronics, plasmonics, optoelectronics, and sensing.
New materials can now be routinely imaged at atomic resolution with such high throughput in aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy that automatic methods for detecting
Antisite defects were selectively incorporated in monolayer WS2 during its growth by regulating W diffusion in Au substrates, as predicted by first principles calculations.
Scientists demonstrated control over room temperature magnetism in a van der Waals magnet by tuning the crystal chemistry.
Experiments and simulations found that directing the synthesis of the solid electrolyte Li0.3La0.57TiO3 (LLTO) yields a 500-fold increase in grain boundary conductivity. Achieving higher grain boundary conductance provides a pathway toward al
Using inelastic neutron scattering and density matrix renormalization group calculations, a model-independent approach for entanglement quantification in quantum spin systems is developed. This work lays the foundation for a general entanglement
This work advances a ‘twist’ dynamical description of quasiparticles (e.g., phonons, Bloch electrons) in non-symmorphic chiral and achiral materials, thus building insights into the microscopic interactions that underlie their basic properties.
The combination of nontrivial band topology and symmetry-breaking phases gives rise to novel quantum states and phenomena such as topological superconductivity, quantum anomalous Hall effect
Inelastic neutron scattering measurements reveal interacting modes with unprecedented clarity in a quantum magnet.1 This work demonstrates how inelastic neutron scattering, in conjunction with new theoretical developments, can reveal important
A new platform is theoretically proposed to create Majorana bound states (MBSs) based on a planar Josephson junction (JJ) coupled with a spontaneously formed crystal of magnetic skyrmions forming a triangular lattice.