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This work presents a platform that enables surface acoustic wave (SAW) modulation of both intralayer and interlayer excitons in MoS2/WSe2 heterostructures. Harnessing the coupled piezoelectric and strain fields of SAWs, this integrated…
Artificially created media allow employing material parameters as additional valuable degrees of freedom in tailoring electromagnetic scattering. In particular, metamaterials with either negative permeability or permittivity allow creating…
We have studied the transmission of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in ferromagnetic/non-magnetic/ferromagnetic tryilayers. The SAW scattering matrix is studied for devices with various non-magnetic spacer thickness, which defines the…
We study a planar metamaterial supporting electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT)-like effect by exploiting the coupling between bright and quasi-dark eigenmodes. The specific design of such a metamaterial consists of a cut-wire (CW)…
This paper presents the analysis of metasurfaces, here called reconfigurable intelligent surface. The analysis is performed by numerical simulations that implement the finite-difference time-domain method. The metasurface has been modeled…
The interplay between real-space topological lattice defects and the reciprocal-space topology of energy bands can give rise to novel phenomena, such as one-dimensional topological modes bound to screw dislocations in three-dimensional…
Pursuing topological phases in natural and artificial materials is one of the central topics in modern physical science and engineering. In classical magnetic systems, spin waves (or magnons) and magnetic solitons (such as domain wall,…
The Hubbard model is investigated in the framework of lattice density functional theory (LDFT). The single-particle density matrix $\gamma_{ij}$ with respect the lattice sites is considered as the basic variable of the many-body problem. A…
We report on the fabrication of a Hybrid SAW/BAW resonator made of a thin layer of Sc-doped AlN (AlScN) with a Sc concentration of 40 at% on a 4H-SiC substrate. A Sezawa mode, excited by a vertical electric field, exploits the d31…
Alternative designs to an electric-LC (ELC) resonator, which is a type of metamaterial inclusion, are presented in this article. Fitting the resonator with an interdigital capacitor (IDC) helps to increase the total capacitance of the…
A triangular lattice with onsite Coulomb interaction $U$ present only on one sub-lattice, is periodically driven by electromagnetic field with a frequency $\Omega \gg (t,~U)$ at half filling. In this high frequency limit, the…
Quantum spin models are ubiquitous in solid-state physics, but classical simulation of them remains extremely challenging. Experimental testbed systems with a variety of spin-spin interactions and measurement channels are therefore needed.…
Insulator-metal transition is investigated self-consistently on the frustrated Shastry-Sutherland lattice in the framework of Slave-Boson mean-field theory. Due to the presence of quasi-flat band structure characteristic, the system…
The meta-material sensor has been regarded as a next-generation sensing technology for the battery-free Internet of Things (IoT) due to its battery-free characteristic and improved sensing performance. The meta-material sensors function as…
We report the design and operation of a surface-emitting surface acoustic wave (SAW) acousto-optical modulator which behaves as a cm-scale linear hologram in response to an applied electronic waveform. The modulator is formed by an optical…
Single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) can adopt two distinct structures corresponding to different coordination of the metal atoms. TMDCs adopting the T-type structure exhibit a rich and diverse set of phenomena, including…
The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a tight-binding one-dimensional (1D) lattice with alternating nearest-neighbor amplitudes. Despite its mathematically simple and physically intuitive structure, the SSH model is capable of…
In many transition-metal oxides and dichalcogenides, the electronic and lattice degrees of freedom are strongly coupled, giving rise to remarkable phenomena, such as metal-insulator transition (MIT) and charge-density wave (CDW) order. We…
We have simulated a half-filled $1D$ $p$-wave periodic Anderson model with numerically exact projector quantum Monte Carlo technique, and the system is indeed located in the Haldane-like state as detected in previous works on the $p$-wave…
Topological metamaterials unlock confined and robust elastic wave control in mechanical structures. Recent breakthroughs have precipitated the development of 3D topological mechanical metamaterials, which extend beyond the conventional 1D…