Structural properties articles within Nature Physics

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• Article | 28 February 2022

  Strained crystalline nanomechanical resonators with quality factors above 10 billion

  Soft clamping reduces the dissipation of nanomechanical resonators, but this method has been limited to amorphous materials. When applied in crystalline silicon, it enables resonators with quality factors beyond ten billion.

  • A. Beccari
  • , D. A. Visani
  •  & T. J. Kippenberg

• Letter | 29 June 2020

  Berry curvature memory through electrically driven stacking transitions

  A memory device is proposed that uses a dynamical modification of the stacking order of few-layer WTe₂ to encode information. The change in stacking modifies both the Berry curvature and the Hall transport, allowing two states to be distinguished.

  • Jun Xiao
  • , Ying Wang
  •  & Aaron M. Lindenberg

• Letter | 21 September 2015

  Three-stage decoherence dynamics of an electron spin qubit in an optically active quantum dot

  The mechanisms of decoherence in solid-state spin qubits subject to low magnetic fields turn out to be more complex than previously expected as an additional fast relaxation stage has now been identified.

  • Alexander Bechtold
  • , Dominik Rauch
  •  & Jonathan J. Finley

• Research Highlights | 23 December 2013

  With strings attached

  • Bart Verberck

• News & Views | 01 August 2013

  On thin ice

  • Bart Verberck

• Research Highlights | 03 June 2013

  Buckle up

  • Bart Verberck

• News & Views | 02 February 2012

  Unearthly beauty

  • Andreas Trabesinger