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The phonon localized edge modes are systematically studied, and two conditions are proposed for the existence of the localized edge modes: (I) coupling between different directions ($x$, $y$ or $z$) in the interaction; (II) different…
Collective excitations in fermionic systems play a crucial role in determining their physical properties. An important challenge is to develop efficient theoretical approaches for describing these excitations and their coupling to fermionic…
Combination of local heating and biasing at the tip-surface junction in temperature-assisted piezoresponse force microscopy (tPFM) opens the pathway for probing local temperature induced phase transitions in ferroics, exploring the…
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