Creating designer quantum states of matter atom-by-atom

AA Khajetoorians, D Wegner, AF Otte, I Swart - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Advances in high-resolution and spin-resolved scanning tunnelling microscopy, as well as
atomic-scale manipulation, have enabled the bottom-up, atom-by-atom creation and …

Engineering quantum states and electronic landscapes through surface molecular nanoarchitectures

I Piquero-Zulaica, J Lobo-Checa, ZMA El-Fattah… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
Surfaces are at the frontier of every known solid. They provide versatile supports for
functional nanostructures and mediate essential physicochemical processes. Intimately …

Edge states in trimer lattices

VM Martinez Alvarez, MD Coutinho-Filho - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Topological phases of matter have attracted much attention over the years. Motivated by
analogy with photonic lattices, here we examine the edge states of a one-dimensional trimer …

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 …

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 …

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 state transfer in Kresling origami

Y Miyazawa, CW Chen, R Chaunsali… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Topological mechanical metamaterials have been widely explored for their boundary states,
which can be robustly isolated or transported in a controlled manner. However, such …

Topological phase diagrams of exactly solvable non-Hermitian interacting Kitaev chains

S Sayyad, JL Lado - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Many-body interactions give rise to the appearance of exotic phases in Hermitian physics.
Despite their importance, many-body effects remain an open problem in non-Hermitian …

Simulating the extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model and transferring an entangled state based on a hybrid cavity-magnon array

DW Wang, C Zhao, J Yang, YT Yan, L Zhou - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We propose a scheme to simulate the extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model by using
the hybrid cavity magnonics system. We consider a hybrid cavity-magnon array with N sites …

Designer flat bands in quasi-one-dimensional atomic lattices

MN Huda, S Kezilebieke, P Liljeroth - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Certain lattices with specific geometries have one or more spectral bands that are strictly flat,
ie, the electron energy is independent of the momentum. This can occur robustly irrespective …