Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
The manipulation of single spins through spin-polarized tunneling opens new routes for quantum control at the atomic scale. We present a theoretical framework describing spin-transfer, spin torques and spin resonance in molecular quantum…
Understanding the electronic coupling and energy flow across layered two-dimensional heterostructures (HSs) is crucial to the exploitation of carrier and phonon transports as well as thermal management in next-generation optoelectronic…
Disorder-induced localization of electrons and electron-electron interaction are among the most fundamental problems in condensed matter physics. In two-dimensional electron systems, extensive studies have led to the emergence of a scaling…
In material systems with slab geometry, the surface contribution to physical responses is commonly expected to diminish rapidly with increasing thickness, giving way to the bulk response. Here, we show that this conventional wisdom is…
We present a theoretical investigation of the magnetic and thermodynamic properties of the triangular spin-1/2 cluster with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction, described by a spin-1/2 Heisenberg Hamiltonian with antisymmetric exchange…
A 75 nm-thick Fe0.5Pt0.5 film is a ferromagnetic metal showing striped magnetic domains in remanence at room temperature. The magnetoresistance is characterized by varying the external temperature and the in-plane magnetic field intensity,…
Based on equations of motion of an SO(5) pseudo-spin, we demonstrate a quantum quench protocol using the magnetic pulse to excite an $\textit{undamped}$ heavy Higgs boson in the Balian--Werthamer superfluid (or superconductor). To achieve…
Bloch points are three-dimensional topological singularities in magnetization that play a key role in topological transformations of spin textures, such as skyrmion creation or annihilation. While topology often enforces the existence of…
In this work, we investigate the magnetic damping and spin pumping response of YIG-based bilayers incorporating vanadium (V) as the normal metal layer via broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) measurements as a function of YIG thickness.…
Nonlinear electronic transport has emerged as a powerful probe of the quantum geometry in topological quantum materials, where the band topology and broken symmetries facilitate power law current voltage responses beyond Ohms law. While…
We report a carbon-fiber-tip based nanomanipulation system integrated into a scanning electron microscope for individual nanoparticle (NP) manipulation on a surface. Electrochemically etched amorphous carbon fiber tips with excellent…
Strong optical nonlinearities at the few-photon level are a central goal for quantum photonics, yet they remain difficult to realize in solid-state systems. In doped two-dimensional semiconductors, coupling between excitons and a degenerate…
Recently "the Hat" monotile was introduced into the family of aperiodic tilings and quasicrystals boasting physical properties lying at the boundary of ordered and disordered systems. Here we study the two-dimensional wave transport,…
Anyons are usually characterized by their topological data and their fractional quantum numbers under global symmetries. In lattice systems such as fractional Chern insulators (FCI), they are also mobile quasiparticles. Their motion…
We investigate memory effects and quantum transport in two-dimensional lattice systems within the framework of non-equilibrium Green's functions and Schwinger-Keldysh non-equilibrium quantum field theory. Starting from a 2D tight-binding…
Entanglement and quantum correlations are central to the physics of quantum materials, yet they have remained notoriously difficult to probe experimentally. Probing these phenomena in solids requires quantum optical probes that operate at…
The protection of superconducting qubits from certain noise sources often comes at the cost of increased sensitivity to other decoherence channels. Here, we explore a route to avoid this tradeoff by encoding quantum information in quantum…
Recent experiments [Phys. Rev. B 109, 245123 (2024)] revealed striking inverse-current (1/I) quantum oscillations in quasi-one-dimensional charge-density-wave (CDW) insulators and proposed an intrinsic Floquet sideband mechanism arising…
We address the connection between negative electronic friction and non-Markovian effects in the nonadiabatic vibrational dynamics of molecules interacting with metal surfaces under nonequilibrium conditions. We show that a generic…
Curvature is a highly relevant parameter when considering nanostructures, favoring the stability and affecting the dynamics of magnetic textures. In this work, we address the spin-transfer torque phenomenon by deriving an expanded Thiele…