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We investigate a valleytronic device based on graphene with charge separation at different sublattices and correspondingly at nonequivalent valleys. We characterize the maximality condition of valley polarization and investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Hamed Koochaki Kelardeh , Mohammadreza Eidi , Takashi Oka , Jan Michael Rost

Over the last decade, the development of Josephson devices based on van der Waals (vdW) materials has advanced rapidly, representing a paradigm shift driven by the advent of 2D materials. The diverse vdW materials library, combined with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Joydip Sarkar , Ayshi Mukherjee , Amit Basu , Ritajit Kundu , Arijit Kundu , Mandar M. Deshmukh

In optoelectronics, achieving electrical reconfigurability is crucial as it enables the encoding, decoding, manipulating, and processing of information carried by light. In recent years, two-dimensional van der Waals (2-D vdW) materials…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials enable new types of magnetic and electronic phases mediated by their reduced dimensionality like magic-angle induced phase transitions, 2D Ising antiferromagnets and ferromagnetism in 2D atomic layers and…

In this review, we present recent works on materials whose common point is the presence of electronic bands of very low dispersion, called "flat bands", which are due to specific atomic order effects without electron interactions. These…

The phenomenon of electron tunneling has long been central to quantum transport and continues to provide a powerful framework for understanding and controlling electronic processes in solids. When combined with optical excitation, tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Mohamed Shehabeldin , Xuguo Zhou , Ran Li , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Yuxuan Cosmi Lin , Jian Tang , Qiong Ma

Atomic-scale control of light-matter interactions represent the ultimate frontier for many applications in photonics and quantum technology. Two-dimensional semiconductors, including transition metal dichalcogenides, are a promising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 John M. Woods , Saroj B. Chand , Enrique Mejia , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Johannes Flick , Gabriele Grosso

More is left to do in the field of flat bands besides proposing theoretical models. One unexplored area is the flat bands featured in the van der Waals (vdW) materials. Exploring more flat-band material candidates and moving the promising…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-05 Jingyi Duan , Da-Shuai Ma , Run-Wu Zhang , Zeying Zhang , Chaoxi Cui , Wei Jiang , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao

Conventional electronics are based invariably on the intrinsic degrees of freedom of an electron, namely, its charge and spin. The exploration of novel electronic degrees of freedom has important implications in both basic quantum physics…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-12 Xiao Li , Ting Cao , Qian Niu , Junren Shi , Ji Feng

Monolayer valley semiconductors, such as tungsten diselenide (WSe$_2$), possess valley pseudospin degrees of freedom that are optically addressable but degenerate in energy. Lifting the energy degeneracy by breaking time-reversal symmetry…

The coupled light-matter modes supported by plasmonic metasurfaces can be combined with topological principles to yield subwavelength topological valley states of light. We give a systematic presentation of the topological valley states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Matthew Proctor , Paloma A. Huidobro , Stefan A. Maier , Richard V. Craster , Mehul P. Makwana

Valleytronics and valley photonics exploit the valley degree of freedom to encode and manipulate information. Here we show that photonic valleys can be selectively addressed in quantum optics using a simple two-level emitter, provided it is…

Many-body physics of electron-electron correlations plays a central role in condensed mater physics, it governs a wide range of phenomena, stretching from superconductivity to magnetism, and is behind numerous technological applications. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Anupam Bhattacharya , Ivan Timokhin , Ratnamala Chatterjee , Qian Yang , Artem Mishchenko

Two dimensional (2D) materials provide a unique platform for spintronics and valleytronics due to the ability to combine vastly different functionalities into one vertically-stacked heterostructure, where the strengths of each of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Yunqiu , Luo , Jinsong Xu , Tiancong Zhu , Guanzhong Wu , Elizabeth J. McCormick , Wenbo Zhan , Mahesh R. Neupane , Roland K. Kawakami

Electronic and topological properties of materials are derived from the interplay between crystalline symmetry and dimensionality. Simultaneously introducing 'forbidden' symmetries via quasiperiodic ordering with low-dimensionality into a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Jeffrey D. Cain , Amin Azizi , Matthias Conrad , Sinéad M. Griffin , Alex Zettl

Recent experiments have revealed that novel nonequilibrium states consistent with the hydrodynamic description of electrons are realized in ultrapure graphene, which hosts the valley degrees of freedom. Here, we formulate a theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Ryotaro Sano , Daigo Oue , Mamoru Matsuo

In crystals, energy band extrema in momentum space can be identified by their valley index. The internal quantum degree of freedom associated with valley pseudospin indices can act as a useful information carrier analogous to electronic…

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is a versatile class of quantum materials of interest to various fields including, e.g., nanoelectronics, optical devices, and topological and correlated quantum matter. Tailoring…

This article explores the recent advancements in atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDs) and their potential applications in various fields, including nanoelectronics, photonics, sensing, energy storage,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-17 Mitesh B. Solanki , Margi Jani