Author(s): Jian Xie, Zihao Huo, Zhimou Chen, Zaizhe Zhang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Xi Lin, and Xiaobo Lu
Recent studies of rhombohedral multilayer graphene have revealed a variety of superconducting states that can be induced or enhanced by magnetic fields, reinforcing rhombohedral multilayer graphene as a powerful platform for investigating novel superconductivity. Here, we report an insulator-superco…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 176505] Published Fri May 01, 2026
Author(s): Jinjae Kim, Hyeonho Lee, Claudia Gollner, Yannick Pleimling, Sumin Lee, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Moon-Ho Jo, Tony Heinz, and Hyunyong Choi
Interlayer excitons (IXs) in transition metal dichalcogenide moiré heterobilayers offer a versatile platform for exploring strongly correlated quantum phases. Despite recent progress in probing excitonic properties, the thermalization dynamics of IXs, particularly within moiré superlattices, remain …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166902] Published Fri Apr 24, 2026
Author(s): Yongxin Zeng, Allan H. MacDonald, and Nemin Wei
Equilibrium interlayer exciton condensation is common in bilayer quantum Hall systems and is characterized by spontaneous phase coherence between isolated layers. It has been predicted that similar physics can occur in the absence of a magnetic field in some two-dimensional semiconductor bilayers. I…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106602] Published Wed Mar 11, 2026
Author(s): Shuang Liu, Oren Cohen, Peng Chen, and Ofer Neufeld
It is well established that light can control magnetism in matter, e.g. via the inverse Faraday effect or ultrafast demagnetization. However, such control is typically limited to magnetization transverse to light’s polarization plane or out-of-plane magnetism in two-dimensional (2D) materials, while…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116901] Published Mon Mar 16, 2026
Author(s): Wenqing Song, Yicheng Mou, Qing Lan, Guorui Zhao, Zejing Guo, Jiaqi Liu, Tuoyu Zhao, Cheng Zhang, and Wu Shi
Moiré superlattices with long-range periodicity exhibit Hofstadter energy spectra under accessible magnetic fields, enabling the exploration of emergent quantum phenomena through a hierarchy of fractal states. However, higher-order features, located at elevated energies with narrow bandwidths, typic…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 036301] Published Wed Jan 21, 2026
Author(s): Chiho Yoon, Tianyi Xu, Yafis Barlas, and Fan Zhang
We investigate the recently discovered multiple superconducting states in rhombohedral graphene quarter metal. We demonstrate that one of these states features a single-spin, single-valley, single-band, single-Fermi-pocket parent state and is most likely a chiral topological pair-density wave, chara…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 026603] Published Fri Jan 16, 2026
Author(s): Yanran Shi, Bo Xie, Fengfan Ren, Xinyu Cai, Zhongqing Guo, Qiao Li, Xin Lu, Nicolas Regnault, Zhongkai Liu, and Jianpeng Liu
Rhombohedral multilayer graphene coupled with a patterned kagome superlattice produces various zero-magnetic-field fractional topological states.
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256603] Published Wed Dec 17, 2025
Author(s): Niccolò Mignani, Alberto Crepaldi, Luca Moreschini, Aaron Bostwick, Chris Jozwiak, Eli Rotenberg, Simon Crampin, Enrico Da Como, and Ettore Carpene
Van der Waals layered materials offer unprecedented opportunities to tune electronic properties by controlling, for instance, the number of layers or their mutual twist angle. However, the translational degree of freedom has not been given proportionate attention. Within the wide family of transitio…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256203] Published Fri Dec 19, 2025
Author(s): A. V. Kuzikova, N. A. Liubachko, S. N. Barilo, A. V. Sadovnikov, R. V. Pisarev, and A. M. Kalashnikova
During laser-induced phase transitions, fast transformations of electronic, atomic, and spin configurations often involve the emergence of hidden and metastable phases. Being inaccessible under any other stimuli, such phases are indispensable for unveiling mechanisms and controlling the transitions.…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 266705] Published Tue Dec 30, 2025
Author(s): Yujie Lan, Yuhao Lei, Congcong Le, Brenden R. Ortiz, Nicholas C. Plumb, Milan Radovic, Xianxin Wu, Ming Shi, Stephen D. Wilson, and Yong Hu
Kagome materials offer a versatile platform for exploring correlated and topological quantum states, where Van Hove singularities (VHSs) play a pivotal role in driving electronic instabilities, exhibiting distinct behaviors depending on electron filling and interaction settings. In the recently disc…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 016401] Published Fri Jan 02, 2026
Author(s): Qianling Liu, Zhiyu Wang, Xiangyan Han, Zhuoxian Li, Bohao Li, Sicheng Zhou, Lihong Hu, Zhuangzhuang Qu, Chunrui Han, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zheng Vitto Han, Bingbing Tong, Guangtong Liu, Li Lu, Fengcheng Wu, and Jianming Lu
The quantum anomalous Hall effect at even filling has been observed in rhombohedral heptalayer graphene moiré superlattices – previous observations were for odd-integer filling factors.
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 016602] Published Mon Jan 05, 2026
Author(s): Alperen Tüğen, Anna M. Seiler, Arthur Christianen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Martin Kroner, and Ataç İmamoğlu
Interlayer excitons in semiconducting bilayers separated by insulating hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) layers constitute a promising platform for investigation of strongly correlated bosonic phases. Here, we report an optical method for the generation and characterization of long-lived interlayer exc…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246502] Published Wed Dec 10, 2025
Author(s): Akifumi Mine, Takeshi Suzuki, Yigui Zhong, Sahand Najafzadeh, Kenjiro Okawa, Masato Sakano, Kyoko Ishizaka, Shik Shin, Takao Sasagawa, and Kozo Okazaki
β−PdBi2 is one of the candidates for topological superconductors with a superconducting (SC) transition temperature (Tc) of 5.3 K, in which parity mixing of a spin singlet and spin triplet has been anticipated, being crucial for the further understanding of the relationship with inversion symmetry a…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236002] Published Mon Dec 01, 2025
Author(s): Cheng Jia, Wenyu Huang, Haobo Yang, Chaojie Luo, Lili Jiang, Shuangxiang Wu, Ming Li, Minghui Fan, Yuanjun Yang, and Hui Zhang
Ferroelectric metals, traditionally considered mutually exclusive, face enduring challenges owing to screening effects of itinerant electrons on ferroelectric order. However, in certain van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures, two-dimensional materials with distinct structural and physical properties c…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236802] Published Wed Dec 03, 2025
Author(s): Xiaomeng Yang, Jianfei Zhang, Wei Li, Qing Zhang, Quan Zhou, Shengcheng Mao, Menglong Wang, Sikang Zheng, Lihua Wang, Ze Zhang, and Xiaodong Han
A new measuring system captures the point where a stretched wire becomes narrow enough that its electrons flow smoothly without scattering.
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216302] Published Fri Nov 21, 2025
Author(s): Chao Lei, Perry T. Mahon, and A. H. MacDonald
We propose twisted bilayers of certain group IV and IVB trigonal transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) MX2 (M=Zr, Hf, Sn and X=S, Se) as moiré materials. In monolayer form, these TMDs have conduction band minima near the three inequivalent Brillouin zone M points and negligible spin-orbit coupling…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196402] Published Wed Nov 05, 2025
Author(s): D. Takegami, T. Aoyama, T. Okauchi, T. Yamaguchi, S. Tippireddy, S. Agrestini, M. García-Fernández, T. Mizokawa, K. Ohgushi, Ke-Jin Zhou, J. Chaloupka, J. Kuneš, A. Hariki, and H. Suzuki
Two new techniques use circularly polarized x rays to characterize a new and potentially useful form of magnetism.
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196502] Published Thu Nov 06, 2025
Author(s): Junlin Xiong, Jiawei Jiang, Yanwei Cui, Han Gao, Ji Zhou, Zijia Liu, KuiKui Zhang, Shaobo Cheng, Kehui Wu, Sang-Wook Cheong, Kai Chang, Zhongkai Liu, Hongxin Yang, Shi-Jun Liang, Bin Cheng, and Feng Miao
Antiferromagnets have garnered significant attention due to their negligible stray field and ultrafast magnetic dynamics, which are promising for high-density and ultrafast spintronic applications. Their dual functionality as both spin sources and information carriers could enable all-electrical sel…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 206701] Published Wed Nov 12, 2025
Author(s): Haiyan Zhu, Hongyu Yu, Weiqin Zhu, Guoliang Yu, Changsong Xu, and Hongjun Xiang
Twist-induced structural distortions induce ferroelectricity and polar magnetic topologies in bilayer NiI2.
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196701] Published Mon Nov 03, 2025