Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

Transition metal dichalcogenides are layered materials which are composed of transition
metals and chalcogens of the group VIA in a 1: 2 ratio. These layered materials have been …

Two-dimensional triangular-lattice antiferromagnets are predicted under some conditions to
exhibit a quantum spin liquid ground state with no energy barrier to create emergent …

Abstract 1 T-TaS2 undergoes successive phase transitions upon cooling and eventually
enters an insulating state of mysterious origin. Some consider this state to be a band …

The ability to tune material properties using gating by electric fields is at the heart of modern
electronic technology. It is also a driving force behind recent advances in two-dimensional …

Strong electron correlation can induce Mott insulating behaviour and produce intriguing
states of matter such as unconventional superconductivity and quantum spin liquids. Recent …

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) show wide ranges of electronic properties ranging
from semiconducting, semi-metallic to metallic due to their remarkable structural differences …

1T-TaS2 is unique among transition metal dichalcogenides in that it is understood to be a
correlation-driven insulator, where the unpaired electron in a 13-site cluster experiences …

Using density functional theory calculations, we investigate the origin of the insulating phase
and metal-insulator transition (MIT) in octahedral tantalum disulfide (1 T-TaS 2), a layered …

The Mott insulator provides an excellent foundation for exploring a wide range of strongly
correlated physical phenomena, such as high-temperature superconductivity, quantum spin …