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Moir\'e patterns made of two-dimensional (2D) materials represent highly tunable electronic Hamiltonians, allowing a wide range of quantum phases to emerge in a single material. Current modeling techniques for moir\'e electrons requires…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Diyi Liu , Mitchell Luskin , Stephen Carr

Sensitive detection of magnetic field is one of the open problem in metrology. Here, we propose an Mach-Zehnder atomic interferometry to sensitively detect the very weak local magnetic field, which is expelled by the superconductor (as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Y. Q. Chai , M. Zhang , L. F. Wei

Moir\'e superlattices can induce correlated-electronic phases in twisted van-der-Waals materials. Strongly correlated quantum phenomena emerge, such as superconductivity and the Mott-insulating state. However, moir\'e superlattices produced…

This study investigates the torsional mechanical properties of pristine iron (Fe) and carbon-doped iron (FeC) nanowires with [001] orientation through molecular dynamics simulations utilizing the Modified Embedded Atom Method (MEAM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-16 Charith L. Hirimuthugodage , Laalitha S. I. Liyanage , K. G. S. H. Gunawardana

The structural and electrical characterizations of mechanically-milled (MM) amorphous fast ionic conductors (a-FICs), viz. xAgI (100-x)[0.67 Ag\_2 O-0.33V\_2O\_5] (x = 40, 50, 55 and 70) have been reported. The amorphisation is restricted…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-22 Parveen Kumar , K. Shahi

We investigate the imaging and polarization properties of Kerr-MOG black holes surrounded by geometrically thick accretion flows. The MOG parameter $\alpha$ introduces deviations from the Kerr metric, providing a means to test modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Xinyu Wang , Huan Ye , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

Functionally graded materials (FGM) eliminate the stress singularity in the interface between two different materials and therefore have a wide range of applications in high temperature environments such as engines, nuclear reactors,…

Domain-wall dynamics in ferroelectric materials are strongly position-dependent since each polar interface is locked into a unique local microstructure. This necessitates spatially resolved studies of the wall-pinning using scanning-probe…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-02 Kamyar Barakati , Yu Liu , Hiroshi Funakubo , Sergei V. Kalinin

Recent studies of 2D moir\'e materials have opened opportunities for advancing condensed matter physics. However, the effect of 1D moir\'e potentials on topological and correlated phases remains largely unexplored. Here we reveal a sequence…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-20 Guo-Qing Zhang , Ling-Zhi Tang , L. F. Quezada , Shi-Hai Dong , Dan-Wei Zhang

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) offer a compelling explanation for the origin of observed magnetic fields, especially on extragalactic scales. Such PMFs give rise to excess of power in small scale matter perturbations that could strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Tal Adi , Sarah Libanore , Hector Afonso G. Cruz , Ely D. Kovetz

A simple model is introduced to describe conductance measurements between a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip and a noble metal surface with adsorbed transition metal atoms which display the Kondo effect. The model assumes a realistic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Merino , O. Gunnarsson

We demonstrate the imaging of ferromagnetic carbon steel samples and we detect the thinning of their profile with a sensitivity of 0.1 mm using a Cs radio-frequency atomic magnetometer. Images are obtained at room temperature, in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-10 Patrick Bevington , Rafal Gartman , Witold Chalupczak , Cameron Deans , Luca Marmugi , Ferruccio Renzoni

The latest discovery of ferromagnetism in atomically thin films of semiconductors Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$ and CrI$_3$ has unleashed numerous opportunities for fundamental physics of magnetism in two-dimensional (2D) limit and also for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-09 Vijay Kumar Gudelli , Guang-Yu Guo

Natural interfaces in ferroic oxides have developed into versatile playgrounds for studying electronic correlation effects in 2D systems. The microscopic origin of the emergent local electronic properties is often debated, however, as…

Diffusive transport of particles or, more generally, small objects is a ubiquitous feature of physical and chemical reaction systems. In configurations containing confining walls or constrictions transport is controlled both by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-22 P. Sekhar Burada , Peter Hanggi , Fabio Marchesoni , Gerhard Schmid , Peter Talkner

Many new types of sensing or imaging surfaces are based on periodic thin films. It is explained how the response of those surfaces to partially coherent fields can be fully characterized by a set of functions in the wavenumber spectrum…

Rotational misalignment of two stacked honeycomb lattices produces a moir\'e pattern that is observable in scanning tunneling microscopy as a small modulation of the apparent surface height. This is known from experiments on highly-oriented…

Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional materials provide a versatile platform to explore strongly correlated and topological phases. This work presents a practical theoretical workflow for studying the correlated and topological states in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Xin Lu , Bo Xie , Jianpeng Liu

A number of aspects of magnetic force microscopy (MFM) specific to the imaging of hard magnetic films have been studied. Firstly, we show that topographic images made in tapping mode with probes characterized by the moderate cantilever…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-02 G Ciuta , F Dumas-Bouchiat , Nora Dempsey , Olivier Fruchart

We have used the scanning charged tip of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to produce images of the conductance variation of a quantised 1D ballistic channel. The channel was formed using electron beam defined 700 nm wide split gate surface…

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