Straintronics with van der Waals materials

F Miao, SJ Liang, B Cheng - npj Quantum Materials, 2021‏ - nature.com
With the outstanding mechanical properties, van der Waals (vdW) materials have attracted
extensive attention in the research of straintronics in the past decade. In this perspective, we …

Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity between twisted cuprate superconductors

SYF Zhao, X Cui, PA Volkov, H Yoo, S Lee… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Twisted interfaces between stacked van der Waals (vdW) cuprate crystals present a platform
for engineering superconducting order parameters by adjusting stacking angles. Using a …

Layer Hall effect in a 2D topological axion antiferromagnet

A Gao, YF Liu, C Hu, JX Qiu, C Tzschaschel, B Ghosh… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Whereas ferromagnets have been known and used for millennia, antiferromagnets were
only discovered in the 1930s. At large scale, because of the absence of global …

Single-photon detection using high-temperature superconductors

I Charaev, DA Bandurin, AT Bollinger… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The detection of individual quanta of light is important for quantum communication,
fluorescence lifetime imaging, remote sensing and more. Due to their high detection …

High-temperature superconductivity in monolayer Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ

Y Yu, L Ma, P Cai, R Zhong, C Ye, J Shen, GD Gu… - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
Although copper oxide high-temperature superconductors constitute a complex and diverse
material family, they all share a layered lattice structure. This curious fact prompts the …

Two-dimensional heavy fermions in the van der Waals metal CeSiI

VA Posey, S Turkel, M Rezaee, A Devarakonda… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Heavy-fermion metals are prototype systems for observing emergent quantum phases
driven by electronic interactions,,,,–. A long-standing aspiration is the dimensional reduction …

Twisted cuprate van der Waals heterostructures with controlled Josephson coupling

M Martini, Y Lee, T Confalone, S Shokri, CN Saggau… - Materials Today, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Twisted van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures offer a unique platform for engineering the
efficient Josephson coupling between cuprate thin crystals harboring the nodal …

Superconducting qubit based on twisted cuprate van der Waals heterostructures

V Brosco, G Serpico, V Vinokur, N Poccia, U Vool - Physical Review Letters, 2024‏ - APS
Van-der-Waals assembly enables the fabrication of novel Josephson junctions featuring an
atomically sharp interface between two exfoliated and relatively twisted Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O …

Electric control of a canted-antiferromagnetic Chern insulator

J Cai, D Ovchinnikov, Z Fei, M He, T Song, Z Lin… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
The interplay between band topology and magnetism can give rise to exotic states of matter.
For example, magnetically doped topological insulators can realize a Chern insulator that …

High-temperature Josephson diode

S Ghosh, V Patil, A Basu, Kuldeep, A Dutta… - Nature Materials, 2024‏ - nature.com
Many superconducting systems with broken time-reversal and inversion symmetry show a
superconducting diode effect, a non-reciprocal phenomenon analogous to semiconducting …