Dichotomous Dynamics of Magnetic Monopole Fluids

Kavli Affiliate: J. C. Seamus Davis | First 5 Authors: Chun-Chih Hsu, Hiroto Takahashi, Fabian Jerzembeck, Jahnatta Dasini, Chaia Carroll | Summary: A recent advance in the study of emergent magnetic monopoles was the discovery that monopole motion is restricted to dynamical fractal trajectories (J. Hall’en et al, Science 378, 1218 (2022)) thus explaining the […]


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Controllable suppression of the unconventional superconductivity in bulk and thin-film Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ via high-energy electron irradiation

Kavli Affiliate: Darrell G. Schlom | First 5 Authors: Jacob P. Ruf, Hilary M. L. Noad, Romain Grasset, Ludi Miao, Elina Zhakina | Summary: In bulk Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$, the strong sensitivity of the superconducting transition temperature $T_{text{c}}$ to nonmagnetic impurities provides robust evidence for a superconducting order parameter that changes sign around the Fermi surface. In […]


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Scanning SQUID study of ferromagnetism and superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates

Kavli Affiliate: Lena F. Kourkoutis | First 5 Authors: Ruby A. Shi, Bai Yang Wang, Yusuke Iguchi, Motoki Osada, Kyuho Lee | Summary: Infinite-layer nickelates $R_{1-x}$Sr$_{x}$NiO$_{2}$ ($R$ = La, Pr, Nd) are a class of superconductors with structural similarities to cuprates. Although long-range antiferromagnetic order has not been observed for these materials, magnetic effects such […]


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Epitaxial rare-earth doped complex oxide thin films for infrared applications

Kavli Affiliate: Darrell G. Schlom | First 5 Authors: Mythili Surendran, Joshua Rollag, Christopher E. Stevens, Ching-Tai Fu, Harish Kumarasubramanian | Summary: Rare earth dopants are one of the most extensively studied optical emission centers for a broad range of applications such as laser optoelectronics, sensing, lighting, and quantum information technologies due to their narrow […]


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Designed spin-texture-lattice to control anisotropic magnon transport in antiferromagnets

Kavli Affiliate: Darrell G. Schlom | First 5 Authors: Peter Meisenheimer, Maya Ramesh, Sajid Husain, Isaac Harris, Hyeon Woo Park | Summary: Spin waves in magnetic materials are promising information carriers for future computing technologies due to their ultra-low energy dissipation and long coherence length. Antiferromagnets are strong candidate materials due, in part, to their […]


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Tracking topological defect motion and incommensurate charge order melting in a perovskite manganite

Kavli Affiliate: Lena F. Kourkoutis | First 5 Authors: Noah Schnitzer, Berit H. Goodge, Gregory Powers, Jaewook Kim, Sang-Wook Cheong | Summary: Charge order pervades the phase diagrams of many quantum materials where it competes with superconducting and magnetic phases, hosts electronic phase transitions and topological defects, and couples to the lattice generating intricate structural […]


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Quasicrystalline Spin Liquid

Kavli Affiliate: Debanjan Chowdhury | First 5 Authors: Sunghoon Kim, Mohammad Saad, Dan Mao, Adhip Agarwala, Debanjan Chowdhury | Summary: The interplay of electronic interactions and frustration in crystalline systems leads to a panoply of correlated phases, including exotic Mott insulators with non-trivial patterns of entanglement. Disorder introduces additional quantum interference effects that can drive […]


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Millimeter-scale freestanding superconducting infinite-layer nickelate membranes

Kavli Affiliate: David A. Muller | First 5 Authors: Yonghun Lee, Xin Wei, Yijun Yu, Lopa Bhatt, Kyuho Lee | Summary: Progress in the study of infinite-layer nickelates has always been highly linked to materials advances. In particular, the recent development of superconductivity via hole-doping was predicated on the controlled synthesis of Ni in a […]


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Observation of the double quantum spin Hall phase in moiré WSe2

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Kaifei Kang, Yichen Qiu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jie Shan | Summary: Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are a topologically protected phase of matter in two dimensions that can support non-dissipative spin transport. A hallmark of the phase is a pair of helical edge states surrounding an […]


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Observation of the fractional quantum spin Hall effect in moiré MoTe2

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Kaifei Kang, Bowen Shen, Yichen Qiu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi | Summary: Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge modes of opposite chiralities. To date, experimental studies have […]


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