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Key experimental results on unveiling and studying properties of a multiphase state that arises in two-dimensional electron systems due to the interplay of interelectron interactions and disorder are reviewed. The review focuses on the…
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Notwithstanding its relevance to many applications in sensing, security, and communications, electrical generation of narrow-band mid-infrared light remains highly challenging. Unlike in the ultraviolet or visible spectral regions few…
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As discovered in the quantum Hall effect, a very effective way for strongly-repulsive electrons to minimize their potential energy is to aquire non-zero relative angular momentum. We pursue this mechanism for interacting two-dimensional…
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All-dielectric, sub-micrometric particles have been successfully exploited for light management in a plethora of applications at visible and near-infrared frequency. However, the investigation of the intricacies of the Mie resonances at the…
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The understanding of the physics of lasermatter interactions in the strongly relativistic regime is of fundamental importance. In this article, a new mechanism of fast electron generation at the vacuum-solid boundary of intense laser pulse…