Pushing the limits of the periodic table—A review on atomic relativistic electronic structure theory and calculations for the superheavy elements

OR Smits, P Indelicato, W Nazarewicz, M Piibeleht… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
We review the progress in atomic structure theory with a focus on superheavy elements and
their predicted ground state configurations important for an element's placement in the …

Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry

H Tian, X Gao, Y Zhang, S Che, T Xu, P Cheung… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In a flat band superconductor, the charge carriers' group velocity v F is extremely slow.
Superconductivity therein is particularly intriguing, being related to the long-standing …

Spin polarization: a new frontier in efficient photocatalysis for environmental purification and energy conversion

Z Zhao, T Zhang, S Yue, P Wang, Y Bao… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As a promising strategy to improve photocatalytic efficiency, spin polarization has attracted
enormous attention in recent years, which could be involved in various steps of …

Gravitational pair production and black hole evaporation

MF Wondrak, WD van Suijlekom, H Falcke - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We present a new avenue to black hole evaporation using a heat-kernel approach
analogous as for the Schwinger effect. Applying this method to an uncharged massless …

Superfluid stiffness of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

M Tanaka, JÎ Wang, TH Dinh, D Rodan-Legrain… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
The physics of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) is a
topic of keen interest in moiré systems research, and it may provide an insight into the …

Emergence of correlations in alternating twist quadrilayer graphene

GW Burg, E Khalaf, Y Wang, K Watanabe… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Alternating twist multilayer graphene (ATMG) has recently emerged as a family of moiré
systems that share several fundamental properties with twisted bilayer graphene, and are …

Viscous terahertz photoconductivity of hydrodynamic electrons in graphene

M Kravtsov, AL Shilov, Y Yang, T Pryadilin… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Light incident upon materials can induce changes in their electrical conductivity, a
phenomenon referred to as photoresistance. In semiconductors, the photoresistance is …

Mesoscopic Klein-Schwinger effect in graphene

A Schmitt, P Vallet, D Mele, M Rosticher, T Taniguchi… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Strong electric field annihilation by particle–antiparticle pair creation, also known as the
Schwinger effect, is a non-perturbative prediction of quantum electrodynamics. Its …

General nonlinear Hall current in magnetic insulators beyond the quantum anomalous Hall effect

D Kaplan, T Holder, B Yan - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Can a generic magnetic insulator exhibit a Hall current? The quantum anomalous Hall effect
(QAHE) is one example of an insulating bulk carrying a quantized Hall conductivity while …

Designing moiré patterns by strain

F Escudero, A Sinner, Z Zhan, PA Pantaleón… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Experiments conducted on two-dimensional twisted materials have revealed a plethora of
moiré patterns with different forms and shapes. The formation of these patterns is usually …