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20062026
most citedSymmetry and magnitude of spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic heterostructures

1.2k citations

396 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026★ 109 cited

Electrical tunability of terahertz nonlinearity in graphene

Sergey Kovalev, Hassan A. Hafez, Klaas-Jan Tielrooij +15

Graphene is conceivably the most nonlinear optoelectronic material. Its nonlinear optical coefficients in the terahertz (THz) frequency range surpass those of other materials by ma…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Strain-Mediated Lattice Reconstruction Enhances Ferromagnetism in Cr2Ge2Te6/WTe2 van der Waals Heterobilayers

Franz Herling, Mireia Torres-Sala, Dorye L. Esteras +17

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures enable tailored electronic and magnetic phases by stacking atomically thin layers with pristine interfaces. Here, we investigate fully 2D Cr2Ge…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Hanle lineshapes and spin-rotation signatures from in-plane anisotropic spin relaxation in heterogeneous spin devices

Josef Světlík, Juan F. Sierra, Lorenzo Camosi +5

Spin precession experiments in lateral spin devices are a powerful tool for probing the spin transport properties of materials. These experiments can be quantitatively described us…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026★ 1 cited

Enhanced Terahertz Photoresponse via Acoustic Plasmon Cavity Resonances in Scalable Graphene

Domenico De Fazio, Sebastián Castilla, Karuppasamy P. Soundarapandian +11

Precise control and nanoscale confinement of terahertz (THz) fields are essential requirements for emerging applications in photonics, quantum technologies, wireless communications…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Atomic-Scale Origins of Oxidation Resistance in Amorphous Boron Nitride

Onurcan Kaya, Qiushi Deng, Thomas Souvignet +4

Amorphous boron nitride (\textrm{}-BN) is a promising ultrathin barrier for nanoelectronics, yet the atomistic mechanisms governing its chemical stability remain poorly understo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Semiconductor Meta-Graphene and Valleytronics

Praveen Pai, Aron W. Cummings, Alexander Cerjan +3

Nano-patterned semiconductor interfaces offer a versatile platform for creating quantum metamaterials and exploring novel electronic phenomena. In this study, we illustrate this co…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Structure and magnetism of MnGe thin films grown with a nonmagnetic CrSi template

B. D. MacNeil, J. S. R. McCoombs, D. Kalliecharan +7

We report a method to grow B20 MnGe thin films using molecular-beam epitaxy, which employs an ultrathin CrSi template layer on Si(111). This layer is expected to be nonmagnetic, in…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Disorder-aided Early Warning Signals: Predicting Catastrophic Shifts in Athermal Systems

Tapas Bar, Anurag Banerjee, Blai Casals +2

The early prediction of tipping points, distinguished by sudden and catastrophic shifts from stable states, poses a challenging task that would enable us to assess the impending th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 17 cited

Room-temperature anisotropic in-plane spin dynamics in graphene induced by PdSe proximity

Juan F. Sierra, Josef Světlík, Williams Savero Torres +8

Van der Waals heterostructures offer a versatile platform for tailoring electrical, magnetic, optical, and spin transport properties of materials through proximity effects. Notably…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Electric-Field Control of Josephson Oscillations in Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates

David Galvez-Poblete, Roberto E. Troncoso, Guillermo Romero +2

We study the dynamic behavior of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with dipolar interactions when the influence of external electric fields affects the coherent tunneling properties…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Quantum transport in nitrogen-doped nanoporous graphenes

Gaetano Calogero, Isaac Alcón, Alan E. Anaya Morales +6

Bottom-up on-surface synthesized nanoporous graphenes (NPGs), realized as 2D arrays of laterally covalently bonded -conjugated graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), are a family of carbo…

physics.optics2025★ 10 cited

Photonics in Flatland: Challenges and Opportunities for Nanophotonics with 2D Semiconductors

Ali Azimi, Julien Barrier, Angela Barreda +45

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are emerging as a versatile platform for nanophotonics, offering unprecedented tunability in optical properties through exciton resonance engine…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Terahertz time-domain signatures of the inverse Edelstein effect in topological-insulator|ferromagnet heterostructures

Genaro Bierhance, Chihun In, Enzo Rongione +14

Three-dimensional topological insulators possess topologically protected surface states with spin-momentum locking, which enable spin-charge-current interconversion (SCI) by the in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Weak localization as probe of spin-orbit-induced spin-split bands in bilayer graphene proximity coupled to WSe

E. Icking, F. Wörtche, A. W. Cummings +6

Proximity coupling of bilayer graphene (BLG) to transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offers a promising route to engineer gate-tunable spin-orbit coupling (SOC) while preserving…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Synaptic plasticity in Co/Nb:STO memristive devices: The role of oxygen vacancies

Walter Quiñonez, Anouk Goossens, Diego Rubi +2

Neuromorphic computing aims to develop energy-efficient devices that mimic biological synapses. One promising approach involves memristive devices that can dynamically adjust their…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 3 cited

Physics-Based Compact Modeling for the Drain Current Variability in Single-Layer Graphene FETs

N. Mavredakis, A. Pacheco-Sanchez, R. Garcia Cortadella +3

For the growth of emerging graphene field-effect transistor (GFET) technologies, a thorough characterization of on-wafer variability is required. Here, we report for the first time…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

First-Principles Nanocapacitor Simulations of the Optical Dielectric Constant in Water Ice

Anthony Mannino, Graciele M. Arvelos, Kedarsh Kaushik +5

We introduce a combined density functional theory (DFT) and non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) framework to compute the capacitance of nanocapacitors and directly extract the…

cs.AI2025

Architectures of Error: A Philosophical Inquiry into AI and Human Code Generation

Camilo Chacón Sartori

With the rise of generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models are increasingly employed for code generation, becoming active co-authors alongside human programmers. Focusing specif…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Enhancing atomic-resolution in electron microscopy: A frequency-domain deep learning denoiser

Ivan Pinto-Huguet, Marc Botifoll, Xuli Chen +6

Atomic resolution electron microscopy, particularly high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy, has become an essential tool for many scientific fields…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Beware of the water: Hidden hydrogenation of perovskite membranes made by the water-soluble sacrificial layer method

Umair Saeed, Felip Sandiumenge, Kumara Cordero-Edwards +5

The fabrication of perovskite oxide free-standing films (membranes) by lift-off methods using water-soluble sacrificial layers is appealing because of the new mechanical degrees of…

physics.app-ph2025

Infrared photothermal heterodyne imaging in thermally thick medium for thermo-optic property characterization

Jordan Letessier, Abel Netter, Jérémie Maire +1

Measuring temperature fields in semi-transparent media requires the knowledge of material thermo-optic properties. While the current techniques are well established for isothermal…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Instability of oxide perovskite surfaces induced by vacancy formation

Ned Thaddeus Taylor, Michael Thomas Morgan, Steven Paul Hepplestone

This work presents a first principles study of the (001) surface energetics of nine oxide perovskites, with a focus on the role of surface vacancies in determining termination stab…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Emergent Magnetic Structures at the 2D Limit of the Altermagnet MnTe

Marc G. Cuxart, Roberto Robles, Beatriz Muñiz Cano +8

MnTe has recently emerged as a canonical altermagnet, a newly identified class of magnetism characterized by compensated antiferromagnetic order coexisting with spin-split electron…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 74 cited

Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials

F. Javier García de Abajo, D. N. Basov, Frank H. L. Koppens +145

Triggered by the development of exfoliation and the identification of a wide range of extraordinary physical properties in self-standing films consisting of one or few atomic layer…