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most citedRealization of Quantum Spin Hall State in Monolayer 1T'-WTe2

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cond-mat.str-el2025

Imaging Electron-Hole Asymmetry in the Quantum Melting of Generalized Wigner Crystals

Emma Berger, Michael Arumainayagam, Zhihuan Dong +12

Two-dimensional moiré materials provide a versatile platform to explore phase transitions in strongly correlated systems. Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) we have imaged t…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 2 cited

Visualizing the Impact of Quenched Disorder on 2D Electron Wigner Solids

Zhehao Ge, Conor Smith, Zehao He +17

Electron Wigner solids (WSs)1-12 provide an ideal system for understanding the competing effects of electron-electron and electron-disorder interactions, a central unsolved problem…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 14 cited

Observation of a multitude of correlated states at the surface of bulk 1T-TaSe crystals

Yi Chen, Wei Ruan, Jeffrey D. Cain +5

The interplay between electron-electron interactions and structural ordering can yield exceptionally rich correlated electronic phases. We have used scanning tunneling microscopy t…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 169 cited

Imaging spinon density modulations in a 2D quantum spin liquid

Wei Ruan, Yi Chen, Shujie Tang +17

Two-dimensional triangular-lattice antiferromagnets are predicted under some conditions to exhibit a quantum spin liquid ground state whose low-energy behavior is described by a sp…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 55 cited

Visualizing delocalized correlated electronic states in twisted double bilayer graphene

Canxun Zhang, Tiancong Zhu, Salman Kahn +12

The discovery of interaction-driven insulating and superconducting phases in moiré van der Waals heterostructures has sparked considerable interest in understanding the novel corre…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 237 cited

Visualizing Exotic Orbital Texture in the Single-Layer Mott Insulator 1T-TaSe2

Yi Chen, Wei Ruan, Meng Wu +18

Mott insulating behavior is induced by strong electron correlation and can lead to exotic states of matter such as unconventional superconductivity and quantum spin liquids. Recent…