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Light-induced phase transitions offer a method to dynamically modulate topological states in bulk complex materials. Yet, next-generation devices demand nanoscale architectures with contact resistances near the quantum limit and precise…

The demand for ever-increasing density of information storage and speed of manipulation boosts an intense search for new magnetic materials and novel ways of controlling the magnetic bit. Here, we report the synthesis of a ferromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-28 B. Náfrádi , P. Szirmai , M. Spina , H. Lee , O. V. Yazyev , A. Arakcheeva , D. Chernyshov , M. Gibert , L. Forró , E. Horváth

Moir\'e superlattices engineer band properties and enable observation of fractal energy spectra of Hofstadter butterfly. Recently, correlated-electron physics hosted by flat bands in small-angle moir\'e systems has been at the foreground.…

Many graphene moir\'e superlattices host narrow bands with non-zero valley Chern numbers. We provide analytical and numerical evidence for a robust spin and/or valley polarized insulator at total integer band filling in nearly flat bands of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-13 Cécile Repellin , Zhihuan Dong , Ya-Hui Zhang , T. Senthil

Moire superlattices in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers have emerged as a rich platform for exploring strong correlations using optical spectroscopy. Despite observation of rich Mott-Wigner physics stemming from an interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Ido Schwartz , Yuya Shimazaki , Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Martin Kroner , Ataç Imamoğlu

The superfluid--Mott-insulator phase transition of ultracold spin-1 bosons with ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions in an optical lattice is theoretically investigated. Two counterpropagating linearly polarized laser beams with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. V. Krutitsky , R. Graham

The physics of phase transitions in low-dimensional systems has long been a subject of significant research interest. Long-range magnetic order in the strict two-dimensional limit, whose discovery circumvented the Mermin-Wagner theorem, has…

Semiconductor moir\'e superlattices have been shown to host a wide array of interaction-driven ground states. However, twisted homobilayers have been difficult to study in the limit of large moir\'e wavelength, where interactions are most…

Moir\'e systems made from stacked two-dimensional materials host novel correlated and topological states that can be electrically controlled via applied gate voltages. We have used this technique to manipulate Chern domains in an…

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) showing a transport effect with fractionally quantized Hall plateaus emerging under zero magnetic field, provide a radically new opportunity to engineer topological quantum electronics. By construction of…

Ultrafast optical control of the structural and electronic properties of various quantum materials has recently sparked great interest. In particular, photoinduced quantum phase transition between distinct topological phases has been…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-07 Niraj Aryal , Xilian Jin , Qiang Li , Mengkun Liu , A. M. Tsvelik , Weiguo Yin

We describe a spin logic device with controllable magnetization switching of perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnet / heavy metal structures on a ferroelectric (1-x)[Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3]-x[PbTiO3] (PMN-PT) substrate using current-induced…

Nonvolatile control of spin order or spin excitations offers a promising avenue for advancing spintronics; however, practical implementation remains challenging. In this letter, we propose a general framework to realize electrical control…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-14 Jinyang Ni , Zhenlong Zhang , Jinlian Lu , Quanchao Du , Zhijun Jiang , Laurent Bellaiche

Placed in cavity resonators with three-dimensionally confined electromagnetic wave, the interaction between quasiparticles in solids can be induced by exchanging virtual cavity photons, which can have a non-local characteristic. Here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-11 Zuzhang Lin , Chengxin Xiao , Danh-Phuong Nguyen , Geva Arwas , Cristiano Ciuti , Wang Yao

Ferrimagnets (FIMs) can function as high-frequency antiferromagnets while being easy to detect as ferromagnets, offering unique opportunities for ultrafast device applications. While the physical behavior of FIMs near the compensation point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Mingda Guo , Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

Resonant absorption of a photon by bound electrons in a solid can promote an electron to another orbital state or transfer it to a neighboring atomic site. Such a transition in a magnetically ordered material could affect the magnetic…

In orbital Chern insulators, the chemical potential acts as a tuning knob to reverse chirality in dissipationless edge currents, enabling electric-field control of magnetic order-key for future quantum electronics. Despite the rise of…

A system of two coupled CdTe quantum dots, one of them containing a single Mn ion, was studied in continuous wave and modulated photoluminescence, photoluminescence excitation, and photon correlation experiments. Optical writing of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-01-13 M. Goryca , T. Kazimierczuk , M. Nawrocki , A. Golnik , J. A. Gaj , P. Kossacki , P. Wojnar , G. Karczewski

The recent observation of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in moir\'e fractional Chern insulators provides an opportunity to investigate zero magnetic field anyons. To potentially realize non-Abelian anyons, one approach is to…

In this letter, we propose a mechanism to control the magnetic properties of topological quantum material (TQM) by using magnetoelectric coupling: this mechanism uses a heterostructure of TQM with two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-05 Wei Luo , Mao-Hua Du , Fernando A. Reboredo , Mina Yoon
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