The interest in understanding and controlling the properties of two-dimensional materials
(2DMs) has fostered in the last years a signficant and multidisciplinary research effort …

Abstract 2D materials provide a rich platform to study novel physical phenomena arising
from quantum confinement of charge carriers. Many of these phenomena are discovered by …

We propose a hybrid variant of the level-based learning swarm optimizer (LLSO) for solving
large-scale portfolio optimization problems. This solver fills the gap due to the inadequacy of …

Two ultimately thin vanadium-rich 2D materials based on VS2 are created via molecular
beam epitaxy and investigated using scanning tunneling microscopy, X-ray photoemission …

In this work we prove that ordered single-layer MoS2 can be grown epitaxially on Ag (110),
despite the different crystalline geometry of adsorbate and substrate. A comprehensive …

Magnetism in condensed matter systems is a collective phenomenon, involving cooperation
of the atoms forming the material. Fundamentally, two ingredients are necessary; the atoms …