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Two dimensional (2D) magnets have emerged as a compelling platform for spin based nanoelectronics, enabling atomic scale control of magnetic order, interfaces, quantum geometry, and symmetry. Here, we highlight recent advances in 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Bing Zhao , Roselle Ngaloy , Lalit Pandey , Himanshu Bangar , Divya P. Dubey , Saroj P. Dash

Typically the superconducting phase weakens at several points with the increase in disorder before it is distroyed in the 2d-thin films. This may lead to an inhomogeneous superconducting state without a continuous phase. Here we present…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-19 P. Kulkarni , S. Vieira , J. Rodrigo , M. R. Baklanov , T. Baturina , V. Vinokur

Molecular beam epitaxy enables the growth of thin film materials with novel properties and functionalities. Typically, the lattice constants of films and substrates are designed to match to minimise disorders and strains. However,…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as a versatile and powerful platform for quantum technologies, offering atomic-scale control, strong quantum confinement, and seamless integration into heterogeneous device architectures. Their…

Two-dimensional (2D) superconductors provide a powerful building block for engineering emergent quantum states shaped by reduced dimensionality, enhanced quantum fluctuations, and interfacial symmetry breaking. In van der Waals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sichun Zhao , Junlin Xiong , Ji Zhou , Shi-Jun Liang , Bin Cheng , Feng Miao

Two-dimensional (2D) strongly correlated electron systems underlie many of the most important phenomena in contemporary condensed matter physics, including the Quantum Hall Effect (QHE), ``high T_c'' superconductivity, and possible exotic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mazumdar , R. T. Clay , D. K. Campbell

Crystalline two-dimensional (2D) superconductors with low carrier density are an exciting new class of materials in which superconductivity coexists with strong interactions, the effects of complex topology are not obscured by disorder, and…

Two-dimensional superconductivity has become a major frontier in condensed matter physics. It holds the key to the mechanism of high-temperature superconductors and offers an exceptional arena to stabilize emergent quantum states enabled by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-16 Qiang-Jun Cheng , Xu-Cun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue , Can-Li Song

Advances in low-dimensional superconductivity are often realized through improvements in material quality. Apart from a small group of organic materials, there is a near absence of clean-limit two-dimensional (2D) superconductors, which…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted a great deal of interest in recent years. This family of materials allows for the realization of versatile electronic devices and holds promise for next-generation (opto)electronics. Their…

Novel technologies and new materials are in high demand for future energy-efficient electronic devices to overcome the fundamental limitations of miniaturization of current silicon-based devices. Two-dimensional (2D) materials show…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Lei Shen , Jun Zhou , Tong Yang , Ming Yang , Yuan Ping Feng

Two-dimensional materials (2DM) and their derived heterostructures have electrical and optical properties that are widely tunable via several approaches, most notably electrostatic gating and interfacial engineering such as twisting. While…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Haoning Tang , Yiting Wang , Xueqi Ni , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Shanhui Fan , Eric Mazur , Amir Yacoby , Yuan Cao

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), together with other two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted great interest due to the unique optical and electrical properties of atomically thin layers. In order to fulfill their potential,…

Common two-dimensional (2D) materials have a layered 3D structure with covalently bonded, atomically thin layers held together by weak van der Waals forces. However, in a recent transmission electron microscopy experiment, atomically thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Janne Nevalaita , Pekka Koskinen

We report free-standing atomic crystals that are strictly 2D and can be viewed as individual atomic planes pulled out of bulk crystals or as unrolled single-wall nanotubes. By using micromechanical cleavage, we have prepared and studied a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 K. S. Novoselov , D. Jiang , T. Booth , V. V. Khotkevich , S. M. Morozov , A. K. Geim

In the field of atomically thin 2D materials, oxides are relatively unexplored in spite of the large number of layered oxide structures amenable to exfoliation. There is an increasing interest in ultra-thin film oxide nanostructures from…

Owing to the fascinating physical characteristics of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their heterostructure, much effort has been devoted to exploring their basic physical properties as well as discovering other novel 2D materials.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-13 Seungjun Lee , Young-Kyun Kwon

The strong spin$-$orbit coupling (SOC) and numerous crystal phases in few$-$layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) MX$_2$ (M$=$W, Mo, and X$=$Te, Se, S) has led to a variety of novel physics, such as Ising superconductivity and…

Weakly disordered two-dimensional (2D) superconductors can host richer quantum phase transitions than their highly-disordered counterparts. This is due to the insertion of a metallic state in the transition between a superconductor and an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-12 Puhua Wan , Qihong Chen , Oleksandr Zheliuk , Le Zhang , Minpeng Liang , Xiaoli Peng , Jianting Ye

The growing skill in the synthesis processes of new materials has intensified the interest in exploring the properties of systems modeled by more complex lattices. Two-dimensional super-honeycomb lattices, have been investigated in metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 A. B. Felix de Souza , L. Spreafico , D. Faria , A. Latgé