Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey Moses | Summary:Parametric amplifiers have allowed breakthroughs in ultrafast, strong-field, and high-energy density laser science and are an essential tool for extending the frequency range of powerful emerging diode-pumped solid-state laser technology. However, their impact is limited by inherently low quantum efficiency due to nonuniform light extraction. Here we demonstrate a new […]

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Wenjin Zhao, Kaifei Kang, Lizhong Li, Charles Tschirhart, Evgeny Redekop | Summary: The Chern insulator displays a quantized Hall effect without Landau levels. In a landmark paper in 1988, Haldane showed that a Chern insulator could be realized through complex next-nearest-neighbor hopping in a honeycomb lattice. Despite […]

Kavli Affiliate: Lena F. Kourkoutis | First 5 Authors: Grace A. Pan, Qi Song, Dan Ferenc Segedin, Myung-Chul Jung, Hesham El-Sherif | Summary: The rare-earth nickelates possess a diverse set of collective phenomena including metal-to-insulator transitions, magnetic phase transitions, and, upon chemical reduction, superconductivity. Here, we demonstrate epitaxial stabilization of layered nickelates in the Ruddlesden-Popper […]

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Yihang Zeng, Zhengchao Xia, Roei Dery, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi | Summary: Strongly correlated bosons in a lattice are a platform to realize rich bosonic states of matter and quantum phase transitions. While strongly correlated bosons in a lattice have been studied in cold-atom experiments, their realization […]

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey Moses | Summary:While non-Hermitian systems are normally constructed through incoherent coupling to a larger environment, recent works have shown that under certain conditions coherent couplings can be used to similar effect. We show that this new paradigm enables the behavior associated with the PT- symmetric phase of a non-Hermitian subsystem to control […]

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: C. L. Tschirhart, Evgeny Redekop, Lizhong Li, Tingxin Li, Shengwei Jiang | Summary: In spin torque magnetic memories, electrically actuated spin currents are used to switch a magnetic bit. Typically, these require a multilayer geometry including both a free ferromagnetic layer and a second layer providing spin […]

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Yanhao Tang, Kaixiang Su, Lizhong Li, Yang Xu, Song Liu | Summary: Two-dimensional semiconductor moir’e materials have emerged as a highly controllable platform to simulate and explore quantum condensed matter. Compared to real solids, electrons in semiconductor moir’e materials are less strongly attracted to the moir’e lattice […]

Kavli Affiliate: Christopher Ober| First 5 Authors: Martina F. Ober, Martina F. Ober, , , | Summary:The silicification of DNA origami structures increases their mechanical and thermal stability and provides chemical protection. So far, it is unclear how silicification affects the internal structure of the DNA origami and whether the whole DNA framework is embedded […]

Kavli Affiliate: Jin Suntivich | Summary:Functional properties of transition-metal oxides strongly depend on crystallographic defects. In transition-metal-oxide electrocatalysts such as SrIrO3 (SIO), crystallographic lattice deviations can affect ionic diffusion and adsorbate binding energies. Scanning x-ray nanodiffraction enables imaging of local structural distortions across an extended spatial region of thin samples. Line defects remain challenging to […]

Kavli Affiliate: Lynden Archer | Summary:How surface chemistry influences reactions occurring thereupon has been a long-standing question of broad scientific and technological interest for centuries. Recently, it has re-emerged as a critical question in a subdiscipline of chemistry – electrochemistry at heterointerphases, where the answers have implications for both how, and in what forms, humanity […]