Condensed-matter physics articles within Nature

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  • News & Views |

    Crystal-lattice vibrations reveal the mechanism by which laser pulses can strip a metal of its magnetism. The vibrations absorb the angular momentum of electrons in a sample, allowing it to demagnetize.

    • Georg Woltersdorf

  • Review Article |

    The essential properties of moiré materials and the progress and latest developments in the field are reviewed, and their fabrication and physics are discussed from a reproducibility perspective.

    • Chun Ning Lau
    • , Marc W. Bockrath
    •  & Fan Zhang

  • Article |

    The quantum contribution to friction enables the rationalization of the peculiar friction properties of water on carbon surfaces, and in particular the radius dependence of slippage in carbon nanotubes.

    • Nikita Kavokine
    • , Marie-Laure Bocquet
    •  & Lydéric Bocquet

  • Article |

    A high-precision angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study on the superconductor Bi2212 resolves the spectroscopic singularity associated with the superconducting transition temperature, and indicates that the transition is driven by phase fluctuations.

    • Su-Di Chen
    • , Makoto Hashimoto
    •  & Zhi-Xun Shen

  • Article
    | Open Access

    The vibrational states emerging at the interface in oxide superlattices are characterized theoretically and at atomic resolution, showing the impact of material length scales on structure and vibrational response.

    • Eric R. Hoglund
    • , De-Liang Bao
    •  & James M. Howe

  • Article |

    Single- and two-qubit gate fidelities above the fault-tolerance threshold for quantum computation are demonstrated in silicon quantum dots by fast electrical control using a micromagnet-induced gradient field and tunable coupling.

    • Akito Noiri
    • , Kenta Takeda
    •  & Seigo Tarucha

  • Article
    | Open Access

    A spin-based quantum processor in silicon achieves single-qubit and two-qubit gate fidelities above 99.5% using gate-set tomography, exceeding the theoretical threshold required for fault-tolerant quantum computing.

    • Xiao Xue
    • , Maximilian Russ
    •  & Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

  • Article |

    Strange metallicity—in particular, resistance that is linear in temperature and magnetic field—is observed in a nanopatterned YBa2Cu3O7−δ bosonic system.

    • Chao Yang
    • , Haiwen Liu
    •  & Yanrong Li

  • News & Views |

    The curious electrical resistance that gives strange metals their name has been seen in a failed superconductor, in which disorder interferes with the material’s ability to achieve zero resistance below a critical temperature.

    • Nicholas P. Breznay

  • Article |

    Spontaneous crystallization of atoms occurs in a rotating ultracold Bose–Einstein condensate occupying the lowest Landau level, behaviour that is related to a quantum hydrodynamic instability driven by shear forces.

    • Biswaroop Mukherjee
    • , Airlia Shaffer
    •  & Martin Zwierlein

  • Article |

    An electric-field-induced topological phase transition from a Mott insulator to a quantum anomalous Hall insulator in near-60-degree-twisted (or AB-stacked) MoTe2/WSe2 heterobilayers is reported.

    • Tingxin Li
    • , Shengwei Jiang
    •  & Kin Fai Mak

  • News & Views |

    The inclusion of nitrogen atoms stabilizes the zigzag edges of carbon-based nanoribbons, enabling the ribbons to be decoupled from a substrate and providing a probe for their unconventional magnetism.

    • Aran Garcia-Lekue
    •  & Daniel Sánchez-Portal

  • Article |

    Decoupling spin-polarized edge states using substitutional N-atom dopants along the edges of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) reveals giant spin splitting of a N-dopant edge state, and supports the predicted emergent magnetic order in ZGNRs.

    • Raymond E. Blackwell
    • , Fangzhou Zhao
    •  & Felix R. Fischer

  • Article
    | Open Access

    A study using local compressibility measurements reports fractional Chern insulator states at low magnetic field in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, and establishes the applied magnetic field as a means to tune the Berry curvature distribution.

    • Yonglong Xie
    • , Andrew T. Pierce
    •  & Amir Yacoby

  • Article
    | Open Access

    A study establishes a scalable approach to engineer and characterize a many-body-localized discrete time crystal phase on a superconducting quantum processor.

    • Xiao Mi
    • , Matteo Ippoliti
    •  & Pedram Roushan

  • Article |

    A study demonstrates the synthesis and characterization of a two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructure hosting artificial heavy fermions, providing a tunable platform for investigations of heavy-fermion physics.

    • Viliam Vaňo
    • , Mohammad Amini
    •  & Peter Liljeroth

  • Article |

    Preparing amorphous phases of carbon with mostly sp3 bonding in bulk is challenging, but macroscopic samples that are nearly pure sp3 are synthesized here by heating fullerenes at high pressure.

    • Yuchen Shang
    • , Zhaodong Liu
    •  & Bingbing Liu

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Existing techniques for high-resolution imaging of trapped quantum gases are limited to two-dimensional systems, but the approach described here works in three dimensions by magnifying the quantum gas with matter wave optics.

    • Luca Asteria
    • , Henrik P. Zahn
    •  & Christof Weitenberg

  • Article |

    A study describes the synthesis, structural characterization and formation mechanism of a paracrystalline state of diamond, adding an unusual form of diamond to the family of carbon-based materials.

    • Hu Tang
    • , Xiaohong Yuan
    •  & Huiyang Gou

  • Article |

    Four-dimensional electron energy-loss spectroscopy measurements of the vibrational spectra and the phonon dispersion at a heterointerface show localized modes that are predicted to affect the thermal conductance and electron mobility.

    • Ruishi Qi
    • , Ruochen Shi
    •  & Peng Gao

  • Article |

    An optical lattice for trapping a Bose–Einstein condensate reported here includes photon-mediated atom–atom interactions that replicate acoustic modes in real crystals.

    • Yudan Guo
    • , Ronen M. Kroeze
    •  & Benjamin L. Lev

  • Article |

    Amorphous–amorphous phase transitions in silicon dioxide are shown to proceed through a sequence of percolation transitions, a process that has relevance to a range of important liquid and glassy systems.

    • A. Hasmy
    • , S. Ispas
    •  & B. Hehlen

  • Article |

    Bloch wavefunctions of two types of hole in gallium arsenide are reconstructed by measuring the polarization of light emitted by collisions of electrons and holes accelerated by a terahertz laser.

    • J. B. Costello
    • , S. D. O’Hara
    •  & M. S. Sherwin

  • Article |

    So far only signatures of excitonic insulators have been reported, but here direct thermodynamic evidence is provided for a strongly correlated excitonic insulating state in transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductor double layers.

    • Liguo Ma
    • , Phuong X. Nguyen
    •  & Jie Shan

  • News & Views |

    A device that generates exotic fluids of particles at equilibrium conditions and high temperatures could have applications ranging from low-loss electrical cables to memory storage.

    • Denis Golež
    •  & Zhiyuan Sun

  • Article |

    Using scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy, fractional edge excitations are observed in nanographene spin chains, enabling the potential to study strongly correlated phases in purely organic materials.

    • Shantanu Mishra
    • , Gonçalo Catarina
    •  & Roman Fasel

  • Article
    | Open Access

    The physics of oriented topological graphs produces anomalous non-reciprocal topological edge states that have greater robustness to disorder and defects than the best performers at present: namely, Chern states.

    • Zhe Zhang
    • , Pierre Delplace
    •  & Romain Fleury

  • Article |

    Experiments using two coupled optical ring resonators and based on the concept of synthetic dimension reveal non-Hermitian energy band structures exhibiting topologically non-trivial knots and links.

    • Kai Wang
    • , Avik Dutt
    •  & Shanhui Fan

  • Article |

    So far, only indirect evidence of Wigner crystals has been reported, but a specially designed scanning tunnelling microscope is used here to directly image them in a moiré heterostructure.

    • Hongyuan Li
    • , Shaowei Li
    •  & Feng Wang

  • News & Views |

    In 2D materials, electrons at low densities can freeze into well-defined positions and form exotic structures called Wigner crystals. A non-invasive technique has been developed to image these crystals directly.

    • Carmen Rubio-Verdú

  • Article |

    A study reveals a temperature-dependent cascade of different symmetry-broken electronic states in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5, and highlights intriguing parallels between vanadium-based kagome metals and materials exhibiting similar electronic phases.

    • He Zhao
    • , Hong Li
    •  & Ilija Zeljkovic

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