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We report local conductivity imaging of edge states in monolayer graphene by millikelvin microwave impedance microscopy (MIM). At the charge-neutrality point, as the magnetic field increases, the local conductivity at the edge drops to zero…
Density waves conventionally describe the periodic modulation of charge or spin, yet the spatial modulation of electronic geometry has remained elusive. Here, we report subtle micrometer-scale spatial modulations of the magneto-optical Kerr…
Heisenberg antiferromagnet with an easy-plane anisotropy is discussed in which a magnetic spiral is induced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and/or frustration of the exchange coupling. The distortion of the spiral by small in-plane…
In this work we extend our study of the effect of certain crystallographic defects on the spin-1/2 Kitaev honeycomb spin liquid (arXiv:2511.19409), focusing on its gapless phase and contrasting with the gapped phase. We identify a…
An incommensurate charge density wave is a periodic modulation of charge that breaks translational symmetry at a momentum that does not coincide with the primitive lattice vectors. Its Goldstone excitation, the phason, comprises collective…
An incommensurate charge density wave (CDW) is a periodic modulation of charge that breaks translational symmetry incongruently with the underlying lattice. Its low-energy excitations, the phason, are collective, gapless phase fluctuations.…
We study the spin-1/2 Kitaev honeycomb gapless spin liquid in the presence of Stone-Wales-type local lattice defects with odd-sided plaquettes. While the clean Kitaev model has no finite-temperature phase transitions, we find that…
We apply the numerical linked cluster expansion (NLCE) to study thermodynamic properties of the proximate Kitaev magnet $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ on the honeycomb lattice in the presence of a magnetic field. Using the extended spin-1/2…
We consider the $S=1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the Tasaki square lattice (flat-band spin system) and study its low-temperature thermodynamics around the saturation magnetic field. To this end, we construct a mapping of the ground…
We report single-crystal neutron spectroscopy and bulk characterization on hydrothermally grown Nd2Sn2O7, revealing a dynamical moment fragmentation embedded within the all-in-all-out ordered state. The spectra show a nearly flat band with…
The selective control of specific momentum valleys lies at the core of valleytronics, a field that has thus far focused primarily on the $\mathbf{K}$ and $\mathbf{K'}$ valleys in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). However, direct…
We introduce two classes of junctions in a toric code, a prototypical model of a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquid, and study the nature of anyonic transport across them mediated by Zeeman fields. In the first class of junctions, termed…
We report the details of the growth of ultra-clean single crystals for RuO2, a candidate material for altermagnetism. By using a crystal-growth tube with a necking structure and precisely controlling the conditions of the sublimation…
Reduced basis methods provide an efficient way of mapping out phase diagrams of strongly correlated many-body quantum systems. The method relies on using the exact solutions at select parameter values to construct a low-dimensional basis,…
Recent research has revealed that the CRT symmetry for fermions exhibits a fractionalization distinct from the $\mathbb{Z}_2^{\mathcal{C}}\times\mathbb{Z}_2^{\mathcal{R}}\times\mathbb{Z}_2^{\mathcal{T}}$ for scalar bosons. In fact, the CRT…
One of the key features of hole-doped cuprates is the presence of an extended pseudogap phase, whose microscopic origin has been the subject of intense investigation since its discovery and is believed to be crucial for understanding…
The magnetotropic susceptibility $k(\omega)$ probes ultra-low-frequency uniform fluctuations. For a crystal mounted on an oscillating cantilever in a magnetic field, it is defined as the ratio of torque to angular-displacement amplitude.…
Neutron scattering and muon spin rotation ($\mu$SR) measurements on single-crystal SmAu$_3$Al$_7$ reveal magnetically ordered states associated with successive transitions at $T_{\rm N}$ = 2.8 K and $T^*$ = 0.9 K. Magnetic Bragg peaks…
We studied McMillan's free energy of the lock-in transition in charge-density waves. The wave profiles near the critical value were obtained by numerical annealing. First, we demonstrated that our method reproduces the previous studies. The…
We report on the longitudinal magnetoresistance (MR) in thin metal films on an Ising-type antiferromagnetic insulator, Na5Co15.5Te6O36 (NCTO). Steep changes in the MR spectra with hysteresis were observed at spin-flip transitions driven by…