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cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 33 cited

Nanoscale spectroscopic imaging of phase separation in a correlated material by resonant X-ray holography

Luciana Vidas, Christian M. Günther, Timothy A. Miller +8

Nanoscale phase coexistence and inhomogeneity are ubiquitous in correlated electron materials, existing in doped Mott insulators, manganites, and high-temperature superconductors.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 43 cited

Real-time measurement of nanotube resonator fluctuations in an electron microscope

I. Tsioutsios, A. Tavernarakis, J. Osmond +2

Mechanical resonators based on low-dimensional materials provide a unique platform for exploring a broad range of physical phenomena. The mechanical vibrational states are indeed e…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 7 cited

Self-aligned local electrolyte gating of 2D materials with nanoscale resolution

Cheng Peng, Dmitri K. Efetov, Sebastien Nanot +8

In the effort to make 2D materials-based devices smaller, faster, and more efficient, it is important to control charge carrier at lengths approaching the nanometer scale. Traditio…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 350 cited

Detection of Zak phases and topological invariants in a chiral quantum walk of twisted photons

F. Cardano, A. D'Errico, A. Dauphin +9

Topological insulators are fascinating states of matter exhibiting protected edge states and robust quantized features in their bulk. Here, we propose and validate experimentally a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 1.3k cited

Polaritons in layered 2D materials

Tony Low, Andrey Chaves, Joshua D. Caldwell +7

In recent years, enhanced light-matter interactions through a plethora of dipole-type polaritonic excitations have been observed in two-dimensional (2D) layered materials. In graph…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 189 cited

Inducing Superconducting Correlation in Quantum Hall Edge States

Gil-Ho Lee, Ko-Fan Huang, Dmitri K. Efetov +6

The quantum Hall (QH) effect supports a set of chiral edge states at the boundary of a 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) system. A superconductor (SC) contacting these states induc…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 157 cited

High quality-factor mechanical resonators based on WSe2 monolayers

Nicolas Morell, Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, Ioannis Tsioutsios +4

Suspended monolayer transition metal-dichalcogenides (TMD) are membranes that combine ultra-low mass and exceptional optical properties, making them intriguing materials for opto-m…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 227 cited

Nanoscale thermal imaging of dissipation in quantum systems

Dorri Halbertal, Jo Cuppens, Moshe Ben Shalom +12

Energy dissipation is a fundamental process governing the dynamics of physical, chemical, and biological systems. It is also one of the main characteristics distinguishing quantum…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Localized electronic states at grain boundaries on the surface of graphene and graphite

Adina Luican-Mayer, Jose E. Barrios-Vargas, Jesper Toft Falkenberg +8

Recent advances in large-scale synthesis of graphene and other 2D materials have underscored the importance of local defects such as dislocations and grain boundaries (GBs), and es…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 129 cited

Wannier-Bloch approach to localization in high harmonics generation in solids

Edyta N. Osika, Alexis Chacón, Lisa Ortmann +7

Emission of high-order harmonics from solids provides a new avenue in attosecond science. On one hand, it allows to investigate fundamental processes of the non-linear response of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 49 cited

Trapping and manipulation of individual nanoparticles in a planar Paul trap

Irene Alda, Johann Berthelot, Raúl A. Rica +1

Visualization and manipulation of nanoscale matter is one of the main and current challenges in nanosciences. To this aim, different techniques have been recently developed to non-…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 165 cited

Theory of graphene saturable absorption

A. Marini, J. D. Cox, F. J. Garcia de Abajo

Saturable absorption is a non-perturbative nonlinear optical phenomenon that plays a pivotal role in the generation of ultrafast light pulses. Here we show that this effect emerges…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 16 cited

Structural and magnetic properties of FeMn (1...6) chains supported on CuN / Cu (100)

Deung-Jang Choi, Roberto Robles, Jean-Pierre Gauyacq +3

Heterogeneous atomic magnetic chains are built by atom manipulation on a CuN/Cu (100) substrate. Their magnetic properties are studied and rationalized by a combined scanning t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 2 cited

Electronic structure of (1e,1h) states of carbon nanotube quantum dots

E. N. Osika, B. Szafran

We provide an atomistic tight-binding description of a few carriers confined in ambipolar (n-p) double quantum dots defined in a semiconducting carbon nanotube. We focus our attent…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 88 cited

Shaping, imaging and controlling plasmonic interference fields at buried interfaces

Tom T. A. Lummen, Raymond J. Lamb, Gabriele Berruto +6

Filming and controlling plasmons at buried interfaces with nanometer (nm) and femtosecond (fs) resolution has yet to be achieved and is critical for next generation plasmonic/elect…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 59 cited

UV Photosensing Characteristics of Nanowire-Based GaN/AlN Superlattices

Jonas Lähnemann, Martien Den Hertog, Pascal Hille +6

We have characterized the photodetection capabilities of single GaN nanowires incorporating 20 periods of AlN/GaN:Ge axial heterostructures enveloped in an AlN shell. Transmission…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 61 cited

Electron Diffraction by Plasmon Waves

F. Javier Garcia de Abajo, Brett Barwick, Fabrizio Carbone

An electron beam traversing a structured plasmonic field is shown to undergo diffraction with characteristic angular patterns of both elastic and inelastic outgoing electron compon…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 23 cited

Spin Manipulation in Graphene by Chemically-Induced Sublattice Pseudospin Polarization

Dinh Van Tuan, Stephan Roche

Spin manipulation is one of the most critical challenges to realize spin-based logic devices and spintronic circuits. Graphene has been heralded as an ideal material to achieve spi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 3 cited

Electronic structure of atomic manganese chains supported on CuN / Cu (100)

Deung-Jang Choi, Roberto Robles, Jean-Pierre Gauyacq +3

Scanning tunnelling microscopy and density functional theory studies of manganese chains adsorbed on CuN/Cu (100) reveal an unsuspected electronic edge state at eV abo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 83 cited

Spin Hall Effect and Origins of Nonlocal Resistance in Adatom-Decorated Graphene

Dinh Van Tuan, J. M. Marmolejo-Tejada, Xavier Waintal +2

Recent experiments reporting unexpectedly large spin Hall effect (SHE) in graphene decorated with adatoms have raised a fierce controversy. We apply numerically exact Kubo and Land…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 7 cited

Spin Dynamics in Bilayer Graphene : Role of Electron-Hole Puddles and the Dyakonov-Perel Mechanism

Dinh Van Tuan, Shaffique Adam, Stephan Roche

We report on spin transport features which are unique to high quality bilayer graphene, in absence of magnetic contaminants and strong intervalley mixing. The time-dependent spin p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 65 cited

Effects of Dephasing on Spin Lifetime in Ballistic Spin-Orbit Materials

Aron W. Cummings, S. Roche

We theoretically investigate spin dynamics in spin-orbit-coupled materials. In the ballistic limit, the spin lifetime is dictated by dephasing that arises from energy broadening pl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 14 cited

Mesoscopic electron focusing in topological insulators

P. Sessi, P. Rüßmann, T. Bathon +15

The particle wave duality sets a fundamental correspondence between optics and quantum mechanics. Within this framework, the propagation of quasiparticles can give rise to superpos…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 351 cited

Ultra-confined acoustic THz graphene plasmons revealed by photocurrent nanoscopy

Pablo Alonso-Gonzalez, Alexey Y. Nikitin, Yuanda Gao +14

Terahertz (THz) fields are widely applied for sensing, communication and quality control. In future applications, they could be efficiently confined, enhanced and manipulated - wel…