The magnetic genome of two-dimensional van der Waals materials

QH Wang, A Bedoya-Pinto, M Blei, AH Dismukes… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Magnetism in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials has recently emerged as
one of the most promising areas in condensed matter research, with many exciting emerging …

Repulsive Fermi and Bose polarons in quantum gases

F Scazza, M Zaccanti, P Massignan, MM Parish… - Atoms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polaron quasiparticles are formed when a mobile impurity is coupled to the elementary
excitations of a many-particle background. In the field of ultracold atoms, the study of the …

Strongly correlated electrons and hybrid excitons in a moiré heterostructure

Y Shimazaki, I Schwartz, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures constitute a promising platform to
study correlated electronic states, as well as the many-body physics of excitons. Transport …

Signatures of Wigner crystal of electrons in a monolayer semiconductor

T Smoleński, PE Dolgirev, C Kuhlenkamp, A Popert… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
When the Coulomb repulsion between electrons dominates over their kinetic energy,
electrons in two-dimensional systems are predicted to spontaneously break continuous …

Bilayer Wigner crystals in a transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructure

Y Zhou, J Sung, E Brutschea, I Esterlis, Y Wang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
One of the first theoretically predicted manifestations of strong interactions in many-electron
systems was the Wigner crystal,–, in which electrons crystallize into a regular lattice. The …

Kinetic magnetism in triangular moiré materials

L Ciorciaro, T Smoleński, I Morera, N Kiper, S Hiestand… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic properties of materials ranging from conventional ferromagnetic metals to strongly
correlated materials such as cuprates originate from Coulomb exchange interactions. The …

Excitonic insulator in a heterojunction moiré superlattice

D Chen, Z Lian, X Huang, Y Su, M Rashetnia, L Ma… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Two-dimensional moiré superlattices provide a highly tunable platform to study strongly
correlated physics. In particular, the moiré superlattices of two-dimensional semiconductor …

Electrically tunable quantum confinement of neutral excitons

D Thureja, A Imamoglu, T Smoleński, I Amelio… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Confining particles to distances below their de Broglie wavelength discretizes their motional
state. This fundamental effect is observed in many physical systems, ranging from electrons …

Toward a universal metasurface for optical imaging, communication, and computation

P Thureja, R Sokhoyan, CU Hail, J Sisler, M Foley… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
In recent years, active metasurfaces have emerged as a reconfigurable nanophotonic
platform for the manipulation of light. Here, application of an external stimulus to resonant …

Electron-exciton interactions in the exciton-polaron problem

DK Efimkin, EK Laird, J Levinsen, MM Parish… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Recently, it has been demonstrated that the absorption of moderately doped two-
dimensional semiconductors can be described in terms of exciton polarons. In this scenario …