Recent progress on phase engineering of nanomaterials

Q Yun, Y Ge, Z Shi, J Liu, X Wang, A Zhang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As a key structural parameter, phase depicts the arrangement of atoms in materials.
Normally, a nanomaterial exists in its thermodynamically stable crystal phase. With the …

Flat bands, strange metals and the Kondo effect

JG Checkelsky, BA Bernevig, P Coleman, Q Si… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Flat-band materials such as the kagome metals or moiré superlattices are of intense current
interest. Flat bands can result from the electron motion on numerous (special) lattices and …

Evidence for ground state coherence in a two-dimensional Kondo lattice

W Wan, R Harsh, A Meninno, P Dreher, S Sajan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Kondo lattices are ideal testbeds for the exploration of heavy-fermion quantum phases of
matter. While our understanding of Kondo lattices has traditionally relied on complex bulk f …

Phase Engineering of Nanomaterials: Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

W Zhai, Z Li, Y Wang, L Zhai, Y Yao, S Li… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Crystal phase, a critical structural characteristic beyond the morphology, size, dimension,
facet, etc., determines the physicochemical properties of nanomaterials. As a group of …

Quantum spin liquid signatures in monolayer 1T-NbSe2

Q Zhang, WY He, Y Zhang, Y Chen, L Jia… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are in a quantum disordered state that is highly entangled and
has fractional excitations. As a highly sought-after state of matter, QSLs were predicted to …

Charge-density wave mediated quasi-one-dimensional Kondo lattice in stripe-phase monolayer 1T-NbSe2

ZY Liu, H Jin, Y Zhang, K Fan, TF Guo, HJ Qin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The heavy fermion physics is dictated by subtle competing exchange interactions, posing a
challenge to their understanding. One-dimensional (1D) Kondo lattice model has attracted …

Observation of Electronic Strong Correlation in Monolayer

WM Zhao, W Ding, QW Wang, YX Meng, L Zhu, ZY Jia… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
Strong electron correlation under two-dimensional limit is intensely studied in the transition
metal dichalcogenides monolayers, mostly within their charge density wave (CDW) states …

Nematic Ising superconductivity with hidden magnetism in few-layer 6R-TaS2

SB Liu, C Tian, Y Fang, H Rong, L Cao, X Wei… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs), the manipulation of interlayer stacking/coupling
allows for the construction of customizable quantum systems exhibiting exotic physics. An …

Electronic density of states of a quantum spin liquid with spinon Fermi surface. I. Orbital magnetic field effects

WY He, PA Lee - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
A quantum spin liquid with a spinon Fermi surface is an exotic insulator that hosts neutral
Fermi surfaces inside the insulating gap. In an external magnetic field, it has been pointed …

Alternative Structure Model of Correlated Charge Density Wave in Monolayer 1T-Nb(Ta)Se2

JW Park, HW Yeom - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
The putative Mott charge density wave (CDW) phases of monolayer 1T-NbSe2 and 1T-
TaSe2 have attracted a lot of recent interest due to the unexpected orbital texture of their …