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We demonstrate that graphene-based photonic superlattices provide a versatile platform for electrical and all-optical control of photonic beams with deep-subwavelength accuracy. Specifically, by inserting graphene sheets into periodic…

Reproducing the electronic structure of AM$_4$X$_8$ lacunar spinels with a breathing pyrochlore lattice is a great theoretical challenge due to the interplay of various factors. The character of the M$_4$X$_4$ cluster orbitals is critically…

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Mono- and multilayer FeSe thin films grown on SrTiO$_\mathrm{3}$ and BiTiO$_\mathrm{3}$ substrates exhibit a greatly enhanced superconductivity over that found in bulk FeSe. A number of proposals have been advanced for the mechanism of this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-04 Y. Wang , K. Nakatsukasa , L. Rademaker , T. Berlijn , S. Johnston

Topological phase transitions occur when the electronic bands change their topological properties, typically featuring the closing of the bandgap. While the influence of topological phase transitions on electronic and optical properties has…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 Shengying Yue , Bowen Deng , Yanming Liu , Yujie Quan , Runqing Yang , Bolin Liao

We study the response of low-dimensional semiconductor superlattices to strong terahertz fields on condition of a strong suppression of inelastic scattering processes of electrons caused by the polar-optical phonons. For our study we employ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Anatoly A. Ignatov

Recent introduction of superlattice potentials has opened new avenues for engineering tunable electronic band structures featuring topologically nontrivial moir\'{e}-like bands. Here we consider optoelectronic properties of Bernal-stacked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Nabil Atlam , Swati Chaudhary , Arpit Raj , Matthew Matzelle , Barun Ghosh , Gregory A. Fiete , Arun Bansil

We study the effect of doping on the electron-phonon interaction and on the phonon frequencies in doped semiconductors, taking into account the screening in presence of free carriers at finite temperature. We study the impact of screening…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-10 Francesco Macheda , Paolo Barone , Francesco Mauri

Electronic correlations in two-dimensional materials play a crucial role in stabilising emergent phases of matter. The realisation of correlation-driven phenomena in graphene has remained a longstanding goal, primarily due to the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Saisab Bhowmik , Arindam Ghosh , U. Chandni

Time dynamics of photoexcited electron-hole pairs is important for a number of technologies, in particular solar cells. We combined ultrafast pump-probe Raman scattering and photoemission to directly follow electron-hole excitations as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Jhih-An Yang , Stephen Parham , Daniel Dessau , Dmitry Reznik

On flat bands of the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, exotic correlation physics unfolds. Phonons, through mediating an effective electron-electron interaction, can play a crucial role in selecting various electronic phases. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-03 Yi-Jie Wang , Geng-Dong Zhou , Biao Lian , Zhi-Da Song

We describe a novel state of electrons and phonons arising in semiconductor superlattices (SSL) due to strong electron-phonon interactions. These states are characterized by a localization of phonons and a self-trapping or locking of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 F. V. Kusmartsev , H. S. Dhillon

Phonon properties of $\mathrm{Mo_3Sb_{7-x}Te_x}$ ($x=0,1.5, 1.7$), a potential high-temperature thermoelectric material, have been studied with inelastic neutron and x-ray scattering, and with first-principles simulations. The substitution…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-11 Dipanshu Bansal , Chen W. Li , Ayman H. Said , Douglas L. Abernathy , Jiaqiang Yan , Olivier Delaire

The physics of electrons, photons, and their plasmonic interactions changes greatly when one or more dimensions are reduced down to the nanometer scale. For example, graphene shows unique electrical, optical, and plasmonic properties, which…

Lattice contribution to the electronic self-energy in complex correlated oxides is a fascinating subject that has lately stimulated lively discussions. Expectations of electron-phonon self-energy effects for simpler materials, such as Pd…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-01-16 W. S. Lee , S. Johnston , T. P. Devereaux , Z. -X. Shen

We report strong electron-phonon coupling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-TBG) obtained from atomistic description of the system including more than 10000 atoms in the moire supercell. Electronic structure, phonon spectrum, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Young Woo Choi , Hyoung Joon Choi

The elastic collective modes of a moir\'e superlattice arise not from vibrations of a rigid crystal but from the relative displacement between the constituent layers. Despite their similarity to acoustic phonons, these modes, called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Héctor Ochoa , Rafael M. Fernandes

Moir\'e superlattice-induced sub-bands in twisted van der Waals homo- and hetero-structures govern their optical and electrical properties, rendering additional degrees of freedom such as twist angle. Here, we demonstrate the moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Medha Dandu , Garima Gupta , Pushkar Dasika , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kausik Majumdar

We report a comprehensive micro-Raman scattering study of electrochemically-gated graphene field-effect transistors. The geometrical capacitance of the electrochemical top-gates is accurately determined from dual-gated Raman measurements,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Guillaume Froehlicher , Stéphane Berciaud

The interactions among lattice, charge, and spin degrees of freedom fundamentally shape material properties. In FeSe, symmetry-breaking perturbations serve as highly sensitive probes of these couplings. Previous work has shown that defects…

The ab initio computational method known as Hubbard-corrected density functional theory (DFT+$U$) captures well ground electronic structures of a set of solids that are poorly described by standard DFT alone. Since lattice dynamical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 Wooil Yang , Sabyasachi Tiwari , Feliciano Giustino , Young-Woo Son