Rashba-like physics in condensed matter

G Bihlmayer, P Noël, DV Vyalikh, EV Chulkov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling induces a unique form of Zeeman interaction in momentum space in
materials that lack inversion symmetry: the electron's spin is locked on an effective magnetic …

Low‐dimensional‐materials‐based photodetectors for next‐generation polarized detection and imaging

W **n, W Zhong, Y Shi, Y Shi, J **g, T Xu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The vector characteristics of light and the vectorial transformations during its transmission
lay a foundation for polarized photodetection of objects, which broadens the applications of …

Light-wave-controlled Haldane model in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride

S Mitra, Á Jiménez-Galán, M Aulich, M Neuhaus… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
In recent years, the stacking and twisting of atom-thin structures with matching crystal
symmetry has provided a unique way to create new superlattice structures in which new …

Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

C Bao, P Tang, D Sun, S Zhou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob
for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in the …

Polarization-sensitive optoionic membranes from chiral plasmonic nanoparticles

J Cai, W Zhang, L Xu, C Hao, W Ma, M Sun… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optoelectronic effects differentiating absorption of right and left circularly polarized photons
in thin films of chiral materials are typically prohibitively small for their direct photocurrent …

Magnetic topological insulators

Y Tokura, K Yasuda, A Tsukazaki - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
The importance of global band topology is unequivocally recognized in condensed matter
physics, and new states of matter, such as topological insulators, have been discovered …

Photocurrent as a multiphysics diagnostic of quantum materials

Q Ma, R Krishna Kumar, SY Xu, FHL Koppens… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The photoexcitation life cycle from incident photon (and creation of photoexcited electron–
hole pair) to ultimate extraction of electrical current is a complex multiphysics process …

Light control with Weyl semimetals

C Guo, VS Asadchy, B Zhao, S Fan - Elight, 2023 - Springer
Weyl semimetals are topological materials whose electron quasiparticles obey the Weyl
equation. They possess many unusual properties that may lead to new applications. This is …

Topology and geometry under the nonlinear electromagnetic spotlight

Q Ma, AG Grushin, KS Burch - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
For many materials, a precise knowledge of their dispersion spectra is insufficient to predict
their ordered phases and physical responses. Instead, these materials are classified by the …

Emergent phenomena induced by spin–orbit coupling at surfaces and interfaces

A Soumyanarayanan, N Reyren, A Fert… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling (SOC) describes the relativistic interaction between the spin and
momentum degrees of freedom of electrons, and is central to the rich phenomena observed …