Measurement of optically induced broken time-reversal symmetry in atomically thin crystals
TH Faraday rotation in monolayer WS2 First, we study the non-centrosymmetric WS2 monolayer. The excitation of TMD monolayers…
Photoinduced twist and untwist of moiré superlattices
Cao, Y. et al. Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 80–84 (2018). Article …
Field-tunable valley coupling in a dodecagonal semiconductor quasicrystal
Shechtman, D., Blech, I., Gratias, D. & Cahn, J. W. Metallic phase with long-range orientational order and no…
The prize at the end of the quantum tunnel
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis “for…
Fractional quantization in insulators from Hall to Chern
Klitzing, K. V., Dorda, G. & Pepper, M. New method for high-accuracy determination of the fine-structure constant based…
Quantum light drives electrons strongly at metal needle tips
Bright squeezed vacuum The experimental set-up for the generation of single-mode BSV is described in ref. 32. The…
Electrically tuning photonic topological quasiparticles in synthetic two-level system
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Observation of the nonlinear chiral thermoelectric Hall effect in tellurium
Zhang, Y. J. et al. Enhanced intrinsic photovoltaic effect in tungsten disulfide nanotubes. Nature 570, 349–353 (2019). Article …
Electron‒phonon‒photon excitation in steady nonlinear lasing
Anantharaman, S. B. et al. Ultrastrong light–matter coupling in two-dimensional metal–organic chalcogenolates. Nat. Photon. 19, 322–328 (2025). Article …
The generalized quantum Stein’s lemma and the second law of quantum resource theories
Nielsen, M. A. & Chuang, I. L. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition (Cambridge Univ. Press,…
Hybrid Frenkel–Wannier excitons facilitate ultrafast energy transfer at a 2D–organic interface
Sample preparation To fabricate the WSe2/PTCDA heterostructure (Extended Data Fig. 1a), hBN was first exfoliated onto a 0.1%…
Magnetic Hofstadter cascade in a twisted semiconductor homobilayer
Hofstadter, D. R. Energy levels and wave functions of Bloch electrons in rational and irrational magnetic fields. Phys.…