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Van der Waals (vdW) materials have greatly expanded our design space of heterostructures by allowing individual layers to be stacked at non-equilibrium configurations, for example via control of the twist angle. Such heterostructures not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Xirui Wang , Kenji Yasuda , Yang Zhang , Song Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Liang Fu , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Signatures of unconventional superconductivity have been reported in a wide range of van der Waals (vdW) materials. However, their microscopic origin remains unclear due to competing electronic orders, strong spin-orbit coupling, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-08 Ankan Biswas , Jagannath Sutradhar , Sudip Kumar Saha , Avraham Klein , Jonathan Ruhman

Multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) based on two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures with sharp and clean interfaces at the atomic scale are crucial for applications in nanoscale multi-resistive logic memory devices. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Xinlong Dong , Xuemin Shen , Xiaowen Sun , Yuhao Bai , Zhi Yan , Xiaohong Xu

High-speed, non-volatile tunability is critical for advancing reconfigurable photonic devices used in neuromorphic information processing, sensing, and communication. Despite significant progress in developing phase change and ferroelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Jing Liang , Yuan Xie , Dongyang Yang , Shangyi Guo , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jerry I. Dadap , David Jones , Ziliang Ye

As per de Gennes predictions, a superconducting layer placed between two ferromagnetic insulators can drive an antiferromagnetic exchange coupling between them. Using two ferromagneticinsulating GdN layers having dissimilar switching fields…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-01 Sonam Bhakat , Avradeep Pal

Electrical gate-manipulated exchange bias (EB) effect is a long-term goal for spintronics applications. Meanwhile, the emergence of van der Waals (vdW) magnetic heterostructures provides ideal platforms for the study of interlayer magnetic…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

We present a graphene-based memory platform built on dual-gated field-effect transistors (GFETs). By integrating a lithographically defined metal patch directly atop the hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)-graphene channel, the device functions…

Electrical control of magnetism has been a major techonogical pursuit of the spintronics community, owing to its far-reaching implications for data storage and transmission. Here, we propose and analyze a new mechanism for electrical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-20 Taige Wang , Marc Vila , Michael P. Zaletel , Shubhayu Chatterjee

In the past two years, magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a uniquely versatile experimental platform that combines metallic, superconducting, magnetic and insulating phases in a single crystal. In particular the ability to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Folkert K. de Vries , Elias Portoles , Giulia Zheng , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Peter Rickhaus

We investigate the electronic band structure and the proximity exchange effect in bilayer graphene on a family of ferromagnetic multilayers Cr$_2$X$_2$Te$_6$, X=Ge, Si, and Sn, with first principles methods. In each case the intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Klaus Zollner , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

The interplay between ferroelectricity, magnetism, and superconductivity provides a rich platform for discovering novel quantum phenomena. Here, we develop an effective theory and propose a heterostructure composed of an antiferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-02 Kai-Zhi Bai , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

Materials combining electrically switchable ferroelectricity and tunable topological states hold significant promise for advancing both foundamental quantum phenomena and innovative device architectures. Here, we employ first-principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-12 Xinlong Dong , Dan Qiao , Zeyu Li , Zhenhua Qiao , Xiaohong Xu

The allegedly unconventional superconducting phase of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG)1 has been predicted to possess extraordinary thermal properties, as it is formed from a highly diluted electron ensemble with both a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-07 G. Di Battista , P. Seifert , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , K. C. Fong , A. Principi , D. K. Efetov

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been proposed as potential building blocks for field effect transistor (FET) devices due to their quantum confinement bandgap. Here, we propose a novel GNR device concept, enabling the control of both charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Peter Vancso , Imre Hagymasi , Levente Tapaszto

Graphene is a sturdy and chemically inert material exhibiting an exposed two-dimensional electron gas of high mobility. These combined properties enable the design of graphene composites either based on covalent or non- covalent coupling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Adrien Allain , Zheng Han , Vincent Bouchiat

The ability to reversibly toggle between two distinct states in a non-volatile method is important for information storage applications. Such devices have been realized for phase-change materials, which utilizes local heating methods to…

The demand for low-power devices is on the rise as semiconductor engineering approaches the quantum limit and quantum computing continues to advance. Two-dimensional (2D) superconductors, thanks to their rich physical properties, hold…

The introduction of 'twist' or relative rotation between two atomically thin van der Waals (vdW) membranes gives rise to periodic Moire potential, leading to a substantial altercation of the band structure of the planar assembly. While most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Phanibhusan S Mahapatra , Bhaskar Ghawri , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Subroto Mukerjee , Arindam Ghosh

Superconductivity in flatband systems has attracted tremendous attention in condensed matter physics. Alternating twisted multilayer graphene presents a compelling multiband system, with a coexistence of Dirac bands and flat bands, for…