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Topological materials are quantum materials with nontrivial ground-state entanglement that are irremovable so long as certain rules, like invariance under symmetries and the existence of an energy gap, are respected. They showcase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Hoi Chun Po

Spin polarized scanning tunneling microscopy is used to directly image topological magnetic textures in thin films of MnGe, and to correlate the magnetism with structure probed at the atomic-scale. Our images indicate helical stripe…

Quantum sensing exploits quantum phenomena to enhance the detection and estimation of classical parameters of physical systems and biological entities, particularly so as to overcome the inefficiencies of its classical counterparts. A…

Ultracold quantum gases offer unique possibilities to study interacting many-body quantum systems. Probing and manipulating such systems with ever increasing degree of control requires novel experimental techniques. Scanning electron…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-14 Bodhaditya Santra , Herwig Ott

Unconventional magnetism represents a paradigm shift in condensed matter physics, effectively bridging the fast, high-density advantages of antiferromagnets with the facile read-write capability of ferromagnets. Recent developments in spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiaobing Chen , Weizhao Chen , Qihang Liu

Characterized by bulk Dirac or Weyl cones and surface Fermi-arc states, topological semimetals have sparked enormous research interest in recent years. The nanostructures, with large surface-to-volume ratio and easy field-effect gating,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-01 An-Qi Wang , Xing-Guo Ye , Da-Peng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao

Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) experiments on ultrathin films with non-collinear spin textures demonstrate that resonant tunneling allows for atomic-scale spin-sensitive imaging in real space at tip-sample distances…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 Anika Schlenhoff , Stepan Kovarik , Stefan Krause , Roland Wiesendanger

In many atomically thin materials their optical absorption is dominated by excitonic transitions. It was recently found that optical selection rules in these materials are influenced by the band topology near the valleys. We propose that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-12 Gaofeng Xu , Tong Zhou , Benedikt Scharf , Igor Žutić

This review focuses on the field of quantum entanglement applied to condensed matter physics systems with strong correlations, a domain which has rapidly grown over the last decade. By tracing out part of the degrees of freedom of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-11 Nicolas Laflorencie

Topological phases of matters are of fundamental interest and have promising applications. Fascinating topological properties of light have been unveiled in classical optical materials. However, the manifestation of topological physics in…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-06 Da-Wei Wang , Han Cai , Luqi Yuan , Shi-Yao Zhu , Ren-Bao Liu

Topological properties of quantum systems are one of the most intriguing emerging phenomena in condensed matter physics. A crucial property of topological systems is the symmetry-protected robustness towards local noise. Experiments have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Guliuxin Jin , Eliska Greplova

The metallic tip of a scanning force microscope operated at 300 mK is used to locally induce a potential in a fully controllable double quantum dot defined via local anodic oxidation in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. Using scanning gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-20 Magdalena Huefner , Bruno Kueng , Stephan Schnez , Klaus Ensslin , Thomas Ihn , Matthias Reinwald , Werner Wegscheider

The studies of topological insulators and topological semimetals have been at frontiers of condensed matter physics and material science. Both classes of materials are characterized by robust surface states created by the topology of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-10 Wei Ning , Zhiqiang Mao

Discoveries over the past two decades have revealed the remarkable ability of quantum materials to emulate relativistic properties of the vacuum, from Dirac cones in graphene to the Weyl surface states of topological insulators. Yet the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Saikat Banerjee , Anuva Aishwarya , Fei Liu , Lin Jiao , Vidya Madhavan , Eugene J. Mele , Piers Coleman

The rapid development of nanoscience and nanotechnology in the last two decades was stimulated by the emergence of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques capable of accessing local material properties, including transport, mechanical,…

Band topology and related spin (or pseudo-spin) physics of photons provide us with a new dimension for manipulating light, which is potentially useful for information communication and data storage. Especially, the quantum spin Hall effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-03 Biye Xie , Guangxu Su , Hong-Fei Wang , Feng Liu , Lumang Hu , Si-Yuan Yu , Peng Zhan , Ming-Hui Lu , Zhenlin Wang , Yan-Feng Chen

The evolution of the quantum wave packet describing an atom trapped in the surface-tip junction of the scanning tunneling microscope is investigated by using the time-dependent Schroedinger equation, and by a quasi-classical Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-21 M. Grigorescu

Quantum entanglement is one of the core features of quantum theory. While it is typically revealed by measurements along carefully chosen directions, here we review different methods based on so-called random or randomized measurements.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Lukas Knips

Motivated by the search for new observables in nonperturbative quantum gravity, we consider Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) in 2+1 dimensions with the spatial topology of a torus. This system is of particular interest, because one can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-11 T. G. Budd , R. Loll

Interest in the magnetism of organic compounds is growing because of new organic magnets, spin-based electronics and the diverse properties of magnetic edge states in graphene nanoribbons. Electron spin resonance spectroscopy combined with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Gregory Czap , Christoph Wolf , Jose Reina-Gálvez , Mark H. Sherwood , Christopher P. Lutz