Electronic quantum materials simulated with artificial model lattices

SE Freeney, MR Slot, TS Gardenier, I Swart… - ACS Nanoscience …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The band structure and electronic properties of a material are defined by the sort of
elements, the atomic registry in the crystal, the dimensions, the presence of spin–orbit …

Topological band engineering of graphene nanoribbons

DJ Rizzo, G Veber, T Cao, C Bronner, T Chen, F Zhao… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Topological insulators are an emerging class of materials that host highly robust in-gap
surface or interface states while maintaining an insulating bulk,. Most advances in this field …

Engineered electronic states in atomically precise artificial lattices and graphene nanoribbons

L Yan, P Liljeroth - Advances in Physics: X, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The fabrication of atomically precise structures with designer electronic properties is one of
the emerging topics in condensed matter physics. The required level of structural control can …

Topological states in engineered atomic lattices

R Drost, T Ojanen, A Harju, P Liljeroth - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Topological materials exhibit protected edge modes that have been proposed for
applications in, for example, spintronics and quantum computation. Although a number of …

Charge density wave order in 1D mirror twin boundaries of single-layer MoSe2

S Barja, S Wickenburg, ZF Liu, Y Zhang, H Ryu… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
We provide direct evidence for the existence of isolated, one-dimensional charge density
waves at mirror twin boundaries (MTBs) of single-layer semiconducting MoSe2. Such MTBs …

Atomic-scale visualization of chiral charge density wave superlattices and their reversible switching

X Song, L Liu, Y Chen, H Yang, Z Huang, B Hou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chirality is essential for various phenomena in life and matter. However, chirality and its
switching in electronic superlattices, such as charge density wave (CDW) superlattices …

Circular dichroism of emergent chiral stacking orders in quasi-one-dimensional charge density waves

SW Kim, HJ Kim, S Cheon, TH Kim - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Chirality-driven optical properties in charge density waves are of fundamental and practical
importance. Here, we investigate the interaction between circularly polarized light and …

Mobile Kink Solitons in a Van der Waals Charge‐Density‐Wave Layer

J Lee, JW Park, GY Cho, HW Yeom - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Kinks, point‐like geometrical defects along dislocations, domain walls, and DNA, are stable
and mobile, as solutions of a sine‐Gordon wave equation. While they are widely …

Topological properties of subsystem-symmetry-protected edge states in an extended quasi-one-dimensional dimerized lattice

M Jangjan, MV Hosseini - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We theoretically investigate the topological properties of a dimerized quasi-one-dimensional
(1D) lattice comprised of multilegs (L) as well as multisublattices (R). The system has main …

Correlated electronic states at domain walls of a Mott-charge-density-wave insulator 1T-TaS2

D Cho, G Gye, J Lee, SH Lee, L Wang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Domain walls in interacting electronic systems can have distinct localized states,
which often govern physical properties and may lead to unprecedented functionalities and …