Quantum phase transitions in two-dimensional superconductors: a review on recent experimental progress

Z Wang, Y Liu, C Ji, J Wang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Superconductor-insulator/metal transition (SIT/SMT) as a paradigm of quantum phase
transition has been a research highlight over the last three decades. Benefit from recent …

Disorder operator and Rényi entanglement entropy of symmetric mass generation

ZH Liu, Y Da Liao, G Pan, M Song, J Zhao, W Jiang… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The “symmetric mass generation”(SMG) quantum phase transition discovered in recent
years has attracted great interest from both condensed matter and high energy theory …

Universal entanglement spectrum in one-dimensional gapless symmetry protected topological states

XJ Yu, S Yang, HQ Lin, SK Jian - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Quantum entanglement marks a definitive feature of topological states. However, the
entanglement spectrum remains insufficiently explored for topological states without a bulk …

Extracting subleading corrections in entanglement entropy at quantum phase transitions

M Song, J Zhao, ZY Meng, C Xu, M Cheng - SciPost Physics, 2024 - scipost.org
We systematically investigate the finite size scaling behavior of the Rényi entanglement
entropy (EE) of several representative 2d quantum many-body systems between a …

Phases of SO(5) Nonlinear Sigma Model with a Topological Term on a Sphere: Multicritical Point and Disorder Phase

BB Chen, X Zhang, Y Wang, K Sun, ZY Meng - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Novel critical phenomena beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm have been long
sought after. Among many candidate scenarios, the deconfined quantum critical point …

Charge-neutral electronic excitations in quantum insulators

S Wu, LM Schoop, I Sodemann, R Moessner, RJ Cava… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Experiments on quantum materials have uncovered many interesting quantum phases
ranging from superconductivity to a variety of topological quantum matter including the …

Emergent self-duality in a long-range critical spin chain: From deconfined criticality to first-order transition

S Yang, Z Pan, DC Lu, XJ Yu - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Over the past few decades, tremendous efforts have been devoted to understanding self-
duality at the quantum critical point, which enlarges the global symmetry and constrains the …

The detection of unconventional quantum oscillations in insulating 2D materials

S Wu - 2D Materials, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In strongly correlated quantum materials, electrons behave in ways that often extend beyond
the confines of conventional Fermi-liquid theory. Interesting results include the observation …

Interfering Josephson diode effect in Ta2Pd3Te5 asymmetric edge interferometer

Y Li, D Yan, Y Hong, H Sheng, A Wang, Z Dou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Edge states in topological systems have attracted great interest due to their robustness and
linear dispersions. Here a superconducting-proximitized edge interferometer is engineered …

Two‐Dimensional Layered Topological Semimetals for Advanced Electronics and Optoelectronics

H Yu, H Zeng, Y Zhang, Y Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the outstanding physical properties and the integrated characteristics, such as the
gapless band structure, high state density, high conductivity, dangling‐bond‐free surface …