Alfred Jones

Author(s): S. Hedwig, G. Zinke, J. Braun, B. Arnoldi, A. Pulkkinen, J. Minár, H. Ebert, M. Aeschlimann, and B. Stadtmüller

Layered 2D van der Waals materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides, are promising for nanoscale spintronic and optoelectronic applications. Harnessing their full potential requires understanding both intrinsic transport and the dynamics of optically excited spin and charge carriers, partic…

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186903] Published Fri Oct 31, 2025

Author(s): Chenjun Ma, Chen Huang, Yilong You, Huazhan Liu, Zhitong Ding, Mingchao Ding, Chang Liu, Jin Zhang, Guixin Li, Zhipei Sun, Shiwei Wu, Chaojie Ma, Enge Wang, Hao Hong, and Kaihui Liu

A strategy for phase matching high-harmonic generation with arbitrary harmonic orders in crystals enables the development of ultrashort-wavelength and ultrafast-pulse laser sources in tabletop systems.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166902] Published Wed Oct 15, 2025

Author(s): Qiuyang Li, Xiaohan Wan, Senlei Li, Adam Alfrey, Wenhao Liu, Zixin Zhai, Wyatt Alpers, Yujie Yang, Irmina Wladyszewska, Christiano W. Beach, Liuyan Zhao, Bing Lv, Chunhui Rita Du, Kai Sun, and Hui Deng

The anisotropic lattice, spin, and exciton properties of CrSBr monolayers provide the necessary conditions for continuously tunable magnetic moments, exciton energy, and dielectric and optical anisotropies.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 156901] Published Mon Oct 06, 2025

Author(s): Yufeng Liu, Zonglin Li, Shudan Jiang, Min Li, Yu Gu, Kai Liu, Qia Shen, Liang Liu, Xiaoxue Liu, Dandan Guan, Yaoyi Li, Hao Zheng, Canhua Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jinfeng Jia, Tingxin Li, Guorui Chen, Jianpeng Liu, Can Li, Zhiwen Shi, and Shiyong Wang

Rhombohedral graphene (RG) has emerged as a promising platform for exploring exotic quantum phenomena, such as quantum magnetism, unconventional superconductivity, and fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects. Despite its potential, atomic-scale investigations of RG remain limited, hindering a deta…

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 156401] Published Mon Oct 06, 2025

Author(s): Chen He, Jian-Zhou Zhao, Mei Du, Luo-Zhao Zhang, Jia-Ying Zhang, Kuo Yang, Noah F. Q. Yuan, Aleksandr Seliverstov, Ewald Janssens, Jun-Yi Ge, and Zhe Li

The coexistence of topological bands around the Fermi level (EF) and superconductivity provides a fundamental platform for exploring their interplay. However, few materials inherently display both properties. In this Letter, we demonstrate the coexistence of topological surface states at the EF and …

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 126607] Published Wed Sep 17, 2025

Author(s): Nina Girotto Erhardt, Sotirios Fragkos, Dominique Descamps, Stéphane Petit, Michael Schüler, Dino Novko, and Samuel Beaulieu

Understanding nonequilibrium electron-phonon interactions at the microscopic level and on ultrafast timescales is a central goal of modern condensed matter physics. Combining time- and angle-resolved extreme ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy with constrained density functional perturbation theo…

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146904] Published Wed Oct 01, 2025

Author(s): J. Sears, B. Zager, W. He, C. A. Occhialini, Y. Shen, M. Lajer, J. W. Villanova, T. Berlijn, F. Yakhou-Harris, N. B. Brookes, D. G. Chica, X. Roy, E. Baldini, J. Pelliciari, V. Bisogni, S. Johnston, M. Mitrano, and M. P. M. Dean

Many-body excitons in CrSBr are attracting intense interest in view of their highly anisotropic magneto-optical coupling and their potential for novel optical interfaces within spintronic and magnonic devices. Characterizing the orbital character and propagation of these electronic excitations is cr…

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146503] Published Wed Oct 01, 2025

Author(s): Siwon Lee, Kyung-Hwan Jin, SeongJin Kwon, Hyunjin Jung, Choongjae Won, Sang-Wook Cheong, Gil Young Cho, Jaeyoung Kim, and Han Woong Yeom

Orbital-selective angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy provides a direct spectroscopic view of the ground state of an excitonic insulator.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116401] Published Tue Sep 09, 2025

Author(s): Filippo Gaggioli, Daniele Guerci, and Liang Fu

The discovery of superconducting states in multilayer rhombohedral graphene with spin and valley polarization [1] has raised an interesting question: how does superconductivity cope with time-reversal symmetry breaking? In this Letter, using Ginzburg-Landau theory and microscopic calculation, we pre…

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116001] Published Wed Sep 10, 2025

Author(s): H. Erk, C. E. Jensen, S. Jauernik, and M. Bauer

A novel configuration for pump-probe low-energy electron diffraction uses photoelectrons from the substrate and achieves 100-fs time resolution.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226201] Published Wed Nov 27, 2024

Author(s): P. M. Sheverdyaeva, G. Bihlmayer, E. Cappelluti, D. Pacilé, F. Mazzola, N. Atodiresei, M. Jugovac, I. Grimaldi, G. Contini, Asish K. Kundu, I. Vobornik, J. Fujii, P. Moras, C. Carbone, and L. Ferrari

Photoemission spectroscopy and density-functional calculations indicate specific bands of graphene and spin-polarized Eu states induce a large spin-dependent gap at the Dirac point.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266401] Published Fri Jun 28, 2024

Nature Materials, Published online: 28 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01850-y

Noble gas atoms sandwiched in bilayer graphene are directly visualized with scanning transmission electron microscopy, revealing solid and liquid-like dynamics of two-dimensional cluster structures at room temperature under encapsulation.

Nature Materials, Published online: 04 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-023-01709-8

The authors imprint a moiré potential on a remote monolayer semiconductor through the moiré potential created in a remote MoSe2/WS2 moiré bilayer. The imprinted moiré potential enables gate-controlled generation of flat bands and correlated insulating states in the targeted monolayer.

Nature Physics, Published online: 23 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02349-0

The mechanism of charge density wave formation has been hard to explain due to accompanying structural distortions. Now low-dimensional HfTe2 is revealed to host a purely electronic exitonic charge density wave driven by reduced screening effects.

Nature Physics, Published online: 26 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02362-3

Observations of strong electron correlation effects have been mostly confined to compounds containing f orbital electrons. Now, the study of the 3d pyrochlore metal CuV2S4 reveals that similar effects can be induced by flat-band engineering.

Author(s): Zhengwei Nie, Yaxian Wang, Daqiang Chen, and Sheng Meng

The unexpected chiral order observed in 1T−TiSe2 represents an exciting area to explore chirality in condensed matter, while its microscopic mechanism remains elusive. Here, we have identified three metastable collective modes—the so-called single-q modes—in single layer TiSe2, which originate from …

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 196401] Published Tue Nov 07, 2023

Author(s): Jiade Li, Jiangxu Li, Jilin Tang, Zhiyu Tao, Siwei Xue, Jiaxi Liu, Hailin Peng, Xing-Qiu Chen, Jiandong Guo, and Xuetao Zhu

New experiments reveal graphene’s exotic phonon spectrum with unprecedented detail and completeness.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116602] Published Thu Sep 14, 2023