The large variety of 2D materials and their co-integration in van der Waals heterostructures
enable innovative device engineering. In addition, their atomically thin nature promotes the …

In noncentrosymmetric materials, the responses (for example, electrical and optical)
generally depend on the direction of the external stimuli, called nonreciprocal phenomena …

Quantum geometry in condensed-matter physics has two components: the real part quantum
metric and the imaginary part Berry curvature. Whereas the effects of Berry curvature have …

The Chern insulator displays a quantized Hall effect without Landau levels. Theoretically,
this state can be realized by engineering complex next-nearest-neighbour hop** in a …

Atom-thick van der Waals heterostructures with nontrivial physical properties tunable via the
magnetoelectric coupling effect are highly desirable for the future advance of multiferroic …

The quantum geometry has significant consequences in determining transport and optical
properties in quantum materials. Here, we use a semiclassical formalism coupled with …

The discovery of magnetic order in atomically-thin van der Waals materials has
strengthened the alliance between spintronics and two-dimensional materials. An important …

The discovery of 2D intrinsic magnetic materials with ultrathin structures and smooth
surfaces has enabled the investigation of fundamental magnetism physics and creation of …

The presence of two-dimensional (2D) layer-stacking heterostructures that can efficiently
tune the interface properties by stacking desirable materials provides a platform to …

Spin–orbit torques (SOTs), which rely on spin current generation from charge current in a
nonmagnetic material, promise an energy-efficient scheme for manipulating magnetization …