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cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 66 cited

Gate-Tunable Graphene Hall Sensors with High Magnetic Field Sensitivity

Brian T. Schaefer, Lei Wang, Alexander Jarjour +4

Solid-state magnetic field sensors are important to both modern electronics and fundamental materials science. Many types of these sensors maintain high sensitivity only in a limit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 119 cited

Momentum-Dark Intervalley Exciton in Monolayer Tungsten Diselenide Brightened via Chiral Phonon

Zhipeng Li, Tianmeng Wang, Chenhao Jin +13

Inversion symmetry breaking and three-fold rotation symmetry grant the valley degree of freedom to the robust exciton in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), which c…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 1 cited

Effect of Rough Walls on Transport in Mesoscopic He Films

Priya Sharma, Antonio Corcoles, R. G. Bennett +3

The interplay of bulk and boundary scattering is explored in a regime where quantum size effects modify mesoscopic transport in a degenerate Fermi liquid film of He on a rough…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 134 cited

Optical detection and manipulation of spontaneous gyrotropic electronic order in a transition-metal dichalcogenide semimetal

Su-Yang Xu, Qiong Ma, Yang Gao +16

The observation of chirality is ubiquitous in nature. Contrary to intuition, the population of opposite chiralities is surprisingly asymmetric at fundamental levels. Examples range…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 56 cited

Imaging and control of critical spin fluctuations in two-dimensional magnets

Chenhao Jin, Zui Tao, Kaifei Kang +4

Strong spin fluctuations are expected near the thermodynamic critical point of a continuous magnetic phase transition. Such critical spin fluctuations are highly correlated and in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 1k cited

Optical detection of Mott and generalized Wigner crystal states in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices

Emma C. Regan, Danqing Wang, Chenhao Jin +14

Moiré superlattices are emerging as a new route for engineering strongly correlated electronic states in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures, as recently demonstrated in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 98 cited

Anharmonicity strongly enhancing thermal interface conductance: A new anharmonic atomistic Green's function formalism

Jinghang Dai, Zhiting Tian

The traditional atomistic Green's function (AGF) was formulated in the harmonic regime, preventing it from capturing the role of anharmonicity in interfacial thermal transport. Inc…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 20 cited

Identifying Higher Order Topology and Fractional Corner Charge Using Entanglement Spectra

Penghao Zhu, Kieran Loehr, Taylor L. Hughes

We study the entanglement spectrum (ES) of two-dimensional -symmetric second-order topological insulators (TIs). We show that some characteristic higher order topological ob…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 33 cited

Dissipation-enabled hydrodynamic conductivity in a tunable bandgap semiconductor

Cheng Tan, Derek Y. H. Ho, Lei Wang +10

Electronic transport in the regime where carrier-carrier collisions are the dominant scattering mechanism has taken on new relevance with the advent of ultraclean two-dimensional m…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 61 cited

Inducing Kondo Screening of Vacancy Magnetic Moments in Graphene with Gating and Local Curvature

Yuhang Jiang, Jinhai Mao, Po-Wei Lo +7

In normal metals, the magnetic-moment of impurity-spins disappears below a characteristic Kondo temperature, TK. This marks the formation of a polarized cloud of conduction band el…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 8 cited

Symmetry-breaking signatures of multiple Majorana zero modes in one-dimensional spin-triplet superconductors

Arnab Barman Ray, Jay D. Sau, Ipsita Mandal

We study the effects of various symmetry-breaking perturbations on the experimentally measurable signatures (such as conductance and Josephson response) of quasi-one-dimensional (q…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 37 cited

A Topology-Controlled Photonic Cavity Based on the Near-Conservation of the Valley Degree of Freedom

Yandong Li, Yang Yu, Fengyu Liu +2

We demonstrate a novel path to localizing topologically-nontrivial photonic edge modes along their propagation direction. Our approach is based on the near-conservation of the phot…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 42 cited

Engineering electron-phonon coupling of quantum defects to a semi-confocal acoustic resonator

Huiyao Chen, Noah F. Opondo, Boyang Jiang +4

Diamond-based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) enable direct coupling between the quantum states of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers and the phonon modes of a mechanical resonato…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 31 cited

Wurtzite Phonons and the Mobility of a GaN/AlN 2D Hole Gas

Samuel James Bader, Reet Chaudhuri, Martin Schubert +3

To make complementary GaN electronics more than a pipe dream, it is essential to understand the low mobility of 2D hole gases in III-Nitride heterostructures. This work derives bot…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 109 cited

Layer-dependent spin-orbit torques generated by the centrosymmetric transition metal dichalcogenide -MoTe

Gregory M. Stiehl, Ruofan Li, Vishakha Gupta +8

Single-crystal materials with sufficiently low crystal symmetry and strong spin-orbit interactions can be used to generate novel forms of spin-orbit torques on adjacent ferromagnet…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 532 cited

Pressure-controlled interlayer magnetism in atomically thin CrI3

Tingxin Li, Shengwei Jiang, Nikhil Sivadas +9

Stacking order can significantly influence the physical properties of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials. The recent isolation of atomically thin magnetic materials opens…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 157 cited

Emerging Photoluminescence from the Dark-Exciton Phonon Replica in Monolayer WSe2

Zhipeng Li, Tianmeng Wang, Chenhao Jin +13

Tungsten-based monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides host a long-lived dark exciton, an electron-hole pair in a spin-triplet configuration. The long lifetime and unique spin p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 6 cited

Spin Berry phase in a helical edge state: Sz nonconservation and transport signatures

Vivekananda Adak, Krishanu Roychowdhury, Sourin Das

Topological protection of edge state in quantum spin Hall systems relies only on time-reversal symmetry. Hence, S z conservation on the edge can be relaxed which can have an interf…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 12 cited

Cyclotron orbit knot and tunable-field quantum Hall effect

Yi Zhang

From a semiclassical perspective, the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization of the closed cyclotron orbits for charged particles such as electrons in an external magnetic field gives rise t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 83 cited

Enhancing spin-orbit torque by strong interfacial scattering from ultra-thin insertion layers

Lijun Zhu, Lujun Zhu, Shengjie Shi +3

Increasing dampinglike spin-orbit torque (SOT) is both of fundamental importance for enabling new research into spintronics phenomena and also technologically urgent for advancing…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 93 cited

Long valley lifetime of dark excitons in single-layer WSe2

Yanhao Tang, Kin Fai Mak, Jie Shan

Single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a promising material system to explore the electron's valley degree of freedom as a quantum information carrier. The va…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 24 cited

High-contrast two-quantum optically detected resonances in NV centers in diamond in zero magnetic field

A K Dmitriev, A K Vershovskii

The methods for controlling spin states of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers using a combination of microwave (MW) or radiofrequency (RF) excitation field for electron sp…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 2 cited

Topologically Protected Photonic Modes in Composite Quantum Hall/Quantum Spin Hall Waveguides

Shukai Ma, Bo Xiao, Yang Yu +3

Photonic topological systems, the electromagnetic analog of the topological materials in condensed matter physics, create many opportunities to design optical devices with novel pr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 46 cited

Current-Induced Torques with Dresselhaus Symmetry Due to Resistance Anisotropy in 2D Materials

Gregory M. Stiehl, David MacNeill, Nikhil Sivadas +7

We report measurements of current-induced torques in heterostructures of Permalloy (Py) with TaTe, a transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) material possessing low crystal symme…